PSYCH 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Therapeutic Relationship, Unconditional Positive Regard
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Encourage people to recognize and experience their true feelings. Through acceptance & non-judgment from the therapist, clients can come to accept themselves. Believed humans were inherently good and everyone had great potential. Focuses on forming a relationship between the thearpist and client that is: Nonjudgmental acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person says/does. The therapist never tells the client what to do, but only helps the client process their feelings and come to conclusions on their own. Humanistic therapists reveal personal experiences and feelings to help clients better understand themselves. A therapist had an affair to help client understand. It is important for the therapist to be: Many studies show it"s crucial to success for any form of therapy. Rogers argued that 3 therapist qualities were necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change: Emotional understanding; see world through client"s eyes. Reduce the impairing/distressing experiences of a disorder. Often do not change root cause of issue.
