Evaluation Of Person Centred Therapy

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EVALUATE THE CLAIM THAT PERSON-CENTRED THERAPY OFFERS THE THERAPIST ALL THAT HE/SHE WILL NEED TO TREAT CLIENTS INTRODUCTION In approaching this assignment, I researched the theory through various different sources behind Person-Centred Therapy and how the concept was developed. I have attempted to give a background of Carl Rogers theory of human psychology and how from this he formulated the six core conditions for Person-Centred Therapy before providing my own evaluation of whether Person-Centred Therapy provides all the tools required for a therapist to successfully treat their client. The concept of Person-Centred Therapy was developed by an American Psychologist called Carl Rogers during the 1940s and 1950s. The approach of Person-Centred Therapy was borne out of Carl Rogers theory of human personality – in that each person naturally strives from birth to achieve their full potential. Carl Rogers believed that every living thing - human beings included - had an inbuilt life force to self-actualise and to develop their own potential as fully as possible. Rogers viewed a person’s transit through life and thereby their psychological development as the process and progress through to self-actualisation and thus achievement of that individual’s potential. The New World Encyclopedia website states that Carl Rogers termed the “healthy person” as being on the path to self-actualisation, which showed them as fully functioning according to five qualities that he identified as making the person “healthy”: 1) Openness to experience – the ability to accurately perceive one’s own feelings and experiences within the world, and to accept that reality. 2) Existential living – the ability to live in the present, rather than living in the past or the future. The healthy person recognises that the present is the reality that we
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