THERAPEUTIC PERSONALITY CHANGE

Therapeutic Personality Change

Therapeutic Personality Change

Introduction

Carl Rogers was one of the most prominent American psychologists of his generation. He had the human nature an unusual design from which he developed a psychotherapy original, which gave him a personal vision of education. A contradiction marks his career. Indeed, his personal qualities and his skills are widely recognized in psychology, he is quote in many studies as one of the most influential American psychologists, yet its therapeutic approach has caused many controversies. His method was to image of his idea of human nature. This was a concept of therapy that could only cause controversy because it went against the idea, widely held within the profession, the patient, or client, requires a specialist to solve his problems. (Rogers, 1942, 457-467)

Rogers defines a human being as an organism destined to grow, develop, expand, maintain themselves, and realize all their natures and capacities. Rodgers called for this human characteristic as "update trend. (Rogers, 1957, 95-103)

The focus of his theory is an innate positive nature of human beings. Rodgers says that a human being has vast resources for self-actualization, self-understanding, to modify their self-concept, behavior and attitudes adds that it is necessary for a non-managerial experience attitudes of congruence, positive regard and empathetic understanding for the therapy process these are the main ideas of Rogers client-centered theory. However, what is important is that Rodgers' theories can apply successfully not only for the process of therapy, but also for many other types of human relationships. In particular, the values come from Rodgers' theory may be relevant to marriage and other intimate relationships. (Rogers, 1957, 222)

Six Core Conditions

From a wider theoretical context, six conditions have postulated as necessary and sufficient for initiating a process of constructive change in the personality. He gave a brief explanation about each condition and suggestions how each could define operationally in order to research. It noted the implications of this theory through research, psychotherapy and education programs and training tend to achieve constructive change in the personality. It pointed out that many conditions usually considered necessary for psychotherapy, are, according to the terms of this theory, not so much essential.

R. Rogers and Sanford (1985) identified the following key features of person-centered therapy:

The hypothesis that certain installation therapist forms necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic efficacy

Focus on the phenomenological world of the client (hence the definition of psychotherapy as “client-centered "),

The therapeutic process focused on changes in the experiences, to achieve the ability to live in the moment

Attention increasingly to the processes of change in personality, not a static structure

the hypothesis that the same principles of therapy apply to all people, irrespective of clinical category to which they belong - to the persons suffering from psychosis, neurotic or mentally healthy people

Interest in the philosophical problems arising from the practice of psychotherapy

Analysis of the six core conditions

Carl Rogers is the originator of client-centered psychotherapy, one of the main forms of humanistic-existential therapy. In the course of his research aimed at achieving ...