SUMMARY - ROGERS

Personality - Psy 201
Spring 2005

person-centered therapy (client-centered therapy)

Person-centered therapy is the approach to therapy developed by Carl Rogers. It requires a therapeutic relationship in which the therapist offers (and the client perceives) unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence.

actualizing tendency

The actualizing tendency is the tendency to become what you actually are. It may work with or oppose the self-actualizing tendency, depending upon the person's degree of congruence at the moment.

self-actualizing tendency

The self-actualizing tendency is the tendency to become what you see yourself as being. It may work with or oppose the actualizing tendency, depending upon the person's degree of congruence at the moment.

conditional positive regard

Conditional positive regard is valuing, acceptance, love, or concern for another person which is contingent upon that person's having or not having certain thoughts, feelings, sensations, or perceptions. It tends to promote conditional positive self-regard in that person.

conditional positive self-regard

Conditional positive self-regard is valuing, acceptance, love, or concern for oneself which is contingent upon one's having or not having certain thoughts, feelings, sensations, or perceptions. It is typically the result of having experienced conditional positive regard from others.

unconditional positive regard

Unconditional positive regard is valuing, acceptance, love, or concern for another person which is not contingent upon that person's having or not having certain thoughts, feelings, sensations, or perceptions. It tends to promote unconditional positive self-regard in that person.

unconditional positive self-regard

Unconditional positive self-regard is valuing, acceptance, love, or concern for oneself which is not contingent upon one's having or not having certain thoughts, feelings, sensations, or perceptions. It is typically the result of having experienced unconditional positive regard from others.

empathy

Empathy is the ability to see things through another person's eyes, to put oneself in that person's place and understand what he or she is experiencing.

congruence (genuineness, realness)

Congruence is a good fit between inner organismic experiencing and inner awareness, and between inner awareness and external communication.

inner organismic experience (experience)

Inner organismic experience is everything going on within the person at any given moment that is potentially available to awareness.

incongruence

Incongruence is a lack of good fit between inner organismic experiencing and inner awareness, or between inner awareness and external communication.