FCSS*2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unconditional Positive Regard, Intercultural Competence, Ambivalence
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Benefits of client-centred counselling q person or client-centered counselling (rogers, 1942) challenges: Belief that clients cannot understand and resolve their own problems. Focusing on problems rather than the person without direct help/psychoanalytic approach: you want to develop rapport or a relationship, much more equal. In this model it is a shared journey q and emphasizes: building your cultural competence. Counselling/therapy as a shared journey between two fallible people. Counsellor"s unconditional positive regard for client: not gonna be. Client"s innate striving for self-actualization: being the best that they can. Creation of a growth-promoting climate by counsellor: promoting growth - you learn certain pattern of brain cause it stays with you forever - you can use it in the future be. Person"s capacity for self-directed growth through counselling. Focusing on the positive rather than negative. Questions cont"d q sentence stems predict outcomes, e. g. first words outcomes.
