ATS2400 Lecture 8: Week 8 Carl Rogers
16 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Week 8
Carl Rogers
-Client centred therapy
-Focus on conscious perceptions & current interpersonal relationships
-Believed core of personality is positive
-Phenomenal field: the space of perceptions making up our experience, our private,
subjective
-Sense of Self: has the most significant influence in how we act
-Core view of a person: !
- feeling of authenticity!
- positivity of human motivation
-Our Self is fluid & changing
-Self - influenced by the factors that shape perception, guided by our tendency to self-
development, actual self vs. ideal self
Actual Self vs Ideal Self
-A healthy sense of wellbeing is established if an individual maintains a reasonable
consistency between ideal self + actual self
This is known as a congruence.
Incongruence can lead to low self-worth and maladjustment
Incongruence = defensive processes
•Distortion - the meaning of experience is changed to reduce incongruence
•Denial - of the experience
Positive Regard
-Positive social contacts may provide feeling loved
-Any form of attention is ‘positive regard’
Personality Development
•Conditions of worth!
- obtaining positive regard!
- conditions of worth created by others: parents
•The ‘would-should’ dilemma!
- the conflict between our personal needs and goals and the expectations of others!
- creates an ‘incongruence’ between our ‘ideal’ and actual self
Document Summary
Focus on conscious perceptions & current interpersonal relationships. Phenomenal eld: the space of perceptions making up our experience, our private, subjective. Sense of self: has the most signi cant in uence in how we act. Self - in uenced by the factors that shape perception, guided by our tendency to self- development, actual self vs. ideal self. A healthy sense of wellbeing is established if an individual maintains a reasonable consistency between ideal self + actual self. Incongruence can lead to low self-worth and maladjustment. Incongruence = defensive processes: distortion - the meaning of experience is changed to reduce incongruence, denial - of the experience. Positive social contacts may provide feeling loved. Any form of attention is positive regard". Conditions of worth created by others: parents: the would-should" dilemma. The con ict between our personal needs and goals and the expectations of others. Creates an incongruence" between our ideal" and actual self.
