Today we think it's "normal." Even therapists are expected to "multi-task" (Erskine, 2003)
Today we think it's "normal." Even therapists are expected to "multi-task" (Erskine, 2003)
A sensitive reflection and clarification of the client's attitudes may convey this understanding, but the acceptance should be neither positive nor negative, approving nor disapproving. The therapist refrains from questioning, probing, blaming, interpreting, advising, suggesting, persuading, or reassuring (Rogers, 1957)
A sensitive reflection and clarification of the client's attitudes may convey this understanding, but the acceptance should be neither positive nor negative, approving nor disapproving. The therapist refrains from questioning, probing, blaming, interpreting, advising, suggesting, persuading, or reassuring (Rogers, 1957)
A sensitive reflection and clarification of the client's attitudes may convey this understanding, but the acceptance should be neither positive nor negative, approving nor disapproving. The therapist refrains from questioning, probing, blaming, interpreting, advising, suggesting, persuading, or reassuring (Rogers, 1957)
Third on the list, congruence requires that the therapist be genuine, open, and honest throughout the duration of all therapeutic interactions. According to Rogers, these three components were absolute necessary during therapy and, when all were used together, they would enable positive individual growth to occur during therapy (Overholser 2007)
"Incongruence is a basic construct in the theory we have been developing. It refers to a discrepancy between the actual experience of the organism and the self-picture of the individual insofar as it represents that experience" (Rogers, 1956, p
"The therapist was not to be an expert who understood the problem and decided how it should be solved. Rather, the therapist should free the client's power to solve personal problems" (Zimring, 1999, p