PSYC 3140 Lecture 91: PSYC 3140 Lecture 91
9 May 2018
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Lecture 91
• Carl Rogers Humanist Client-centered therapy.
o First to attempt to measure effectiveness of therapy (Q-sort,
congruence of perceived “real self” and “ideal self”)
o Received first Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the
APA
o After practicing psychoanalysis develop his own brand of
psychotherapy.
▪ ***Roger’s approach to psychotherapy was considered
revolutionary because:
• it required no diagnosis,
• Required no labeling of disorders
• Required that disturbed individuals be called “clients”.
o Goal of therapy:
▪ Help people overcome their Conditions of Worth
▪ Help people live by their Organismic Valuing Process
o Roger’s therapy became client-centered when Rogers realized
that the therapist had to make an active attempt to understand and
accept a client’s subjective reality before progress could be made.
▪ Roger’s used Q-technique (also called the Q-sort technique),
created by William Stephenson, To measure therapy’s
effectiveness
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