UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

Unconditional Positive Regard

Unconditional Positive Regard

Chapter: 1 Introduction

In most of the therapies (not humanist) currently taught by professionals, the therapist has a leadership role, far beyond his client, the therapist and the client knows where apparently addictive achievements are not as fast as in humanistic psychology. Unconditional Positve regard is the idea is to hold positive intentions towards your client while you're doing body work on them. The client can pick on the warmth that you extend to them, resulting in a better overall experience (Rogers, 1956, pp 12-34).

Aims and Objectives

The paper discuss about:

How self esteem effects person's personality

How Counseling Psychology impacts on the person and Characteristic of the Counseling Psychology

Unconditional Positive regard and children

Chapter 2: Literature Review

The concept of unconditional regard may strike you as difficult to envision. In everyday conversation, conditions are rampant. Pay attention to the next conversation you overhear. Most of the feedback is either a positive approval or a negative approval in varying degrees.

Even if someone is receiving lots of positive validation from people they can be unhappy. Because that validation is based on the thoughts of others, it can always be taken away or worse yet turn negative. A person then becomes a psychological slave to the opinions of others, always seeking positive affirmation of their thoughts and actions (Purton, 1998, 23-45).

Why unconditional positive regard?

The reason is that it is a basic attitude required in humanistic psychotherapy along with empathy and authenticity. It is an attitude that keeps us from a directive therapy and in my case is extremely important to understand this in order to achieve this. It is an attitude that demands humility and take us away from God's role to dictate the ways and solutions that the client should continue to grow.

What is the purpose of the test? It is able to assimilate the direction of therapy gives the client as it is the actualizing tendency which drives him forward physically and psychologically making adjustments where needed and the pace and rhythm required by the client, he is the only one who knows 100% what you're going, what you experience, what is truly in your hands to do according to their current conditions and awareness (Neville, 1996, pp 56-89).

Psychology and Development

Empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness are three basic attitudes in humanistic psychotherapy, here we analyze more deeply the unconditional positive condition assuming that practiced in conjunction with empathy and a state of congruence and authenticity from the therapist.

The human being is born with an intuitive (immediate) needs organism. In the vicissitudes of their relations with the world and others, may receive two general types of feedback: unconditional positive regard and conditional positive regard. The central thesis and hypothesis of therapeutic work, is that by giving in conditional positive regard, among other "sufficient conditions for therapeutic change", the customer can get it running organism optimum (Lietaer, 1984, pp 56-78).

Consistently, Rogers in his "Client-Centered Psychotherapy" emphasizes that emotions, often dysfunctional, visceral or physiologically manifest, but ...