Theory Outline

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Theory Outline

Person-Centered Psychotherapy

Key Concepts

Person-centered or client centered theory is a non structured, non directive process between the psychotherapist and the patient. It is the process itself, not something that the psychotherapist does to the patient that ultimately enables the patient to feel better by relieving the symptoms of depression.

Key Theorists

Carl Rogers

Appropriate Populations for the Theory

There is a strong emphasis on a collaborative approach or partnership, respect for the client, facilitating choice and involving the client in determining the occupational goals that emerge from his or her choices. Appropriate population may include subject with metal disorder and depression.

Inappropriate Populations for the Theory

Client-centered practice, therefore, privileges the use of the client's knowledge, experience, daily context, and goals over other types of information when therapists make decisions about providing service.

Therapist's Role

The therapist presented in this therapy as a person contacting to other person (client). Psychologists compare psychotherapeutic contact with the work of the gardener. A good therapist is like a gardener, who carefully, patiently, with love and care creates the conditions for updating the internal mechanisms of growth of the customer's identity.

Client's Role

Client's behavior can be better understood as stemming from his perceptual world. The world as it is perceived by the subject, and is for him the true reality. Client should assist the therapist in revealing information.

Theory Strengths

Client centered approach assists in understanding the causes of depression and metal traumas. This results in finding appropriate solution to the problems.

Theory Limitations

In most cases clients may not cooperate.

Key Terms

Client-Centered: person oriented

Researched Based

Rogers researched the significance of client-therapist relationship and the inference of their coherent effort in understanding each other and finding a probable solution to the problem (Rogers, 2003).

Existential psychotherapy

Key Concepts

Existential psychotherapy is a more philosophical approach to medical treatment, which bases its perspective ...