On Becoming a Person

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For personal growth, I believe a better question you should ask yourself is: “Which potentialities within me do I most wish to spend my limited time cultivating, developing, and actualizing in this world? In contrast to the “let’s identify a problem, figure out its cause(s), and make an action plan to solve it” method that many people expect from therapy, Rogers claims that clients unlock their innate capacity for self-directed change when embedded in a fully-acceptant and nurturing psychosocial environment. Many people live in a frightening world of their own making; they desperately try to hold everything in place. Rogers' client-centred therapy approach emerged in a Clinical Psychology study of American psychology and concluded that every individual is unique and, thus, everyone’s perception of his own world, and his ability to handle it, must be trusted.

This includes providing ample opportunities for students to explore ideas, express opinions, and collaborate with others. It has made a significant impact on the field of counseling and continues to be a valuable contribution to the helping professions.Empathic understanding means that the counselor makes every effort to see things from a client’s internal, experience-based perspective, rather than from an external, judgment-based point of view. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Especially in the role of a therapist, it is important to let go of the need to fix your client and create a space in which the client can increasingly be herself, until SHE walks out of your office, as she is. I wouldn’t conclude, however, that I (or others like me) should therefore seek to become more fluid in all aspects of life, but rather should selectively increase fluidity in some areas and maintain rigidity in others. In short, the counselor needs to help the client feel like they are fully understood on their own terms, not on some other terms that the counselor dictates.

Again this was quite a challenging idea at the time Rogers was writing, but every day he had to deal with the results of people who had chosen to limit their reality and button up their emotions.And the safe environment can be created only within the “genuineness and transparency” of a good and trusting relationship. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case within thirty (30) days of the day we confirm via e-mail that you are entitled to a refund for defective goods.