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| Human Nature View (reaction against psychoanalytic directive approaches) |
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| humans are trustworthy and positive, capable of making changes, living productive lives, effective lives, strive for self actualization, need a growth fostering condition to move forward |
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| 3 therapy techniques for growth promoting climate |
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congruence - genuineness in therapy, therapist behaviors match his or her words
unconditional positive regard - acceptance and genuine caring of the client as they are, therapist doesn't need to approve of all client behavior
accurate emphatic understanding - ability to deeply grasp clients subjective world, therapist doesnt need to experience the situation to develop an understanding of clients perspective |
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| counselor does not always "know best", permissive climate, reflects clients communication (verbal and nonverbal), client knows best about him or her self, phenomenological view of client's world, focus on person not problem |
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| Therapist/Client relationship |
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| a shared journey, emphasizes person's innate striving for self actualization, growth promoting relationship, quality relationship is promoted |
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| focuses on relationship, provides supportive environment, serves as a model of human struggling toward greater realness, is genuine, integrated and authentic, can openly express feelings and attitudes present w client, invested in developing own self knowledge |
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| clients arrive in state of in congruence and discrepancy between self perception and their experience in reality, learn to be responsible for them self, find internal resources, create own self growth, heal themselves, become agents of change |
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| in-congruence, self perception discrepancies (conflicts of ideal self and current state in reality) |
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| are not chosen by therapist, client will achieve greater degree of integration and independence, openness to experience, trust in themselves, internal source for evaluation, willingness to continue to grow |
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| some clients may prefer a more directive, structured treatment, individuals accustomed to indirect communication may be uncomfortable with direct expression of empathy or creativity, does not focus on the use of specific techniques, limits of therapist as a person may interfere with developing a genuine therapeutic relationship |
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| people are trustworthy, can make constructive changes, need a growth-promoting client to achieve change, client is the expert, has internal resources, humans are essentially forward moving, focuses on constructive side of human nature |
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