PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stim, Rela, Psychopathology
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Roger"s contributions: focused on ways to foster and attain self-actualization, fully functioning person. Person who is en route toward self-actualization: all children are born with a need for positive regard. They aren"t held back by old standards or concern for what others might think: these folks are less concerned with social conventions. Don"t worry about what other people think about you. The emphasis is that love is given conditionally (with a string attached) Roger"s contributions: three conditions for therapeutic progress: Must be an atmosphere of genuine acceptance of the client by the transparent and honest therapist. Therapist must express unconditional and unforced positive regard for the client. Empathetic understanding client must feel that the therapist. Carl rogers o: the evaluation of rogers" theory. Critics see rogers"s positive stance as a na ve view of all humans. Rogers techniques may not generalize across cultures, or to persons unaccustomed to verbal self-expression.
