Carl Rogers was an American psychologist who developed client-centered therapy. He was born in 1902 in Illinois and grew up on a farm. He studied agriculture and religion in university before switching to clinical psychology. Rogers developed his theory that people have an innate tendency towards growth and fulfillment. However, society places "conditions of worth" on people that can damage their mental health if they cannot meet unrealistic standards. Rogers believed unconditional positive regard from others was crucial for well-being. His theory focused on creating an empathetic and accepting environment to help clients overcome incongruities between their real and ideal selves.
Presentation about Carl Rogers, I put the notes I had on the ppoint before the slide it goes with.
definitions quotes from http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyhumanists2.html
A brief but in-depth evaluation and explanation on Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, detailing each stage of development and why it is imperative we have each need.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY
Karen Horney (Theory of Neurosis)
* Background
* Comparison of her theory to Sigmund Freud
* Basic Anxiety
* Neurotic Needs
* The three solutions
* Alienation
Harry Stack Sullivan (Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory)
* Background
* Dynamism
* Dynamism of the Self-System
* Personification
* Cognitive Processes
* Tension and its Types
* Energy Transformation
* Stages of Development
* Determiners of Development
* Research on Schizophrenia
Presentation about Carl Rogers, I put the notes I had on the ppoint before the slide it goes with.
definitions quotes from http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyhumanists2.html
A brief but in-depth evaluation and explanation on Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, detailing each stage of development and why it is imperative we have each need.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY
Karen Horney (Theory of Neurosis)
* Background
* Comparison of her theory to Sigmund Freud
* Basic Anxiety
* Neurotic Needs
* The three solutions
* Alienation
Harry Stack Sullivan (Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Theory)
* Background
* Dynamism
* Dynamism of the Self-System
* Personification
* Cognitive Processes
* Tension and its Types
* Energy Transformation
* Stages of Development
* Determiners of Development
* Research on Schizophrenia
The self and its development: Journeying back to one's selfChinly Ruth Alberto
The self and its development: Journeying back to one's self is a topic from values education of education students, significance of self, who am i poem, heredity, environment and self, nature of self, characteristics of self, origin of self, development of self, the self, children learn what they live poem, self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect, self-esteem and pride, self-esteem and pleasure, factors affecting self-esteem, adjustment and enhancement of self, authenticity and becoming
Ph 103 final oral exam notes (Rowena Azada-Palacios)Eleanor Kawsek
Philosophy 103 under Mrs. Rowena Azada Palacios
Final Oral Exam notes
Semester 1, SY 2011-2012
Ateneo de Manila University
Credit me if you happen to use this.
The self and its development: Journeying back to one's selfChinly Ruth Alberto
The self and its development: Journeying back to one's self is a topic from values education of education students, significance of self, who am i poem, heredity, environment and self, nature of self, characteristics of self, origin of self, development of self, the self, children learn what they live poem, self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect, self-esteem and pride, self-esteem and pleasure, factors affecting self-esteem, adjustment and enhancement of self, authenticity and becoming
Ph 103 final oral exam notes (Rowena Azada-Palacios)Eleanor Kawsek
Philosophy 103 under Mrs. Rowena Azada Palacios
Final Oral Exam notes
Semester 1, SY 2011-2012
Ateneo de Manila University
Credit me if you happen to use this.
Presented by Hans Kluge, Director, Division of Health Systems and Public Health, WHO/Europe at the 64th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, on 16 September 2014.
An overview of the work carried out by NHS England and NHS Improving Quality's Long Term Conditions Sustainable Improvement Team. It puts the case for why person-centred care has to be at the heart of healthcare.
The final poll for the person centred care images captured at the LTC Midlands and East learning event in November 2015. Which captures person centred care the most to you? Access to records or quality for everyone?
This session will use stories to get in and around the challenges of delivering person‐centred care. Gain an understanding of some of the ways in which story can be used in a very direct and honest way to support learning, practice and service improvement in everyday caring situations.
Humanistic Theory of Learning : In the humanistic approach, a teacher would allow students to learn by their own free will and desire for knowledge. Since humanists believe that the desire to learn is innate and aimed towards the ultimate goal of self-actualization, the motivation must come from the learner. Humanistic education (also called person-centred education) is an approach to education based on the work of humanistic psychologists, most notably Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. Rogers is regarded as the founder of humanistic psychology and devoted much of his efforts toward applying the results of his psychological research to person-centred teaching where empathy, caring about students, and genuineness on the part of the learning facilitator were found to be the key traits of the most effective teachers. Humanistic educators believe that both feelings and knowledge are important to the learning process. Unlike traditional educators, humanistic teachers do not separate the cognitive and affective domains. This aspect also relates to the curriculum in the sense that lessons and activities provide focus on various aspects of the student and not just rote memorization through note taking and lecturing.
The Basic Premise of the Theory are-
• Humans are motivated through an innate potential to actualize, maintain and enhance the self
• Sees people as basically good.
The Theory of Learning is given for B.Ed. Students, M.Ed. Students and also Research Scholars. The theory is covered under SNDT University B.Ed. Course 4-Learning and Teaching. The presentation can be of great help to the students who are appearing for NET/SLET in Education and also for TET and CTET Preparation.
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Social PsychologyWe cannot live for ourselves alone. Al.docxjensgosney
Social Psychology
We cannot live for ourselves alone. All of our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads…..
What is Social PsychologySocial Psychology: The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
Social Psychologists: Explore the connections between people by scientifically studying how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
Attribution TheoryPeople usually attribute others’ behavior either to their internal dispositions or to their external situation (is the behavior due to the person’s situation or disposition).
A teacher may wonder if a child’s hostility reflects an aggressive personality or a reaction to stress or abuse.
Problem: Fundamental Attribution Error (overestimating the influence of personality and underestimating the influence of situations)
Republican vs. Democrat (people vs. society / Katrina)
Attitudes and ActionsAttitudes are feelings, based on our beliefs, that predispose our reactions to objects, people, and events.
If we believe someone is mean, we may feel dislike for the person and act unfriendly.
Attitudes Affect Action and Vice VersaOur attitudes often affect our actions.
Example of Attitude affecting Action:
Democratic leaders didn’t agree with President Bush’s decision to attack Iraq but voted in support of it anyway because of overwhelming public support for Bush.
Similarly, our actions often affect our attitudes.
Example of Action affecting Attitude:
Cult involvement (Brainwashing)
Initially you disagree but you become involved and feel acceptance based on the actions of the cult leaders and end up forming a positive opinion of the cult.
Foot-In-The-Door PhenomenonThe tendency for people who agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one.
To get people to agree to something big, start small and build.
A small thing makes the next one, although slightly larger, seem “not so bad” (i.e. stealing / gangs).
Works for good things, too (contributions).
Role playing affects attitude (you’re a parent/student now)
Zimbardo Experiment of 1972
Social InfluenceWhy do things like suicides and school violence (Columbine, etc.) come in groups?
Answer…Conformity and Obedience:
Behavior is contagious (yawn/traffic gawkers)
We are natural mimics (our attempt at feeling the way others do – this is how we learn empathy)
We’re happy around happy people and sad around sad people.
Group Pressure and ConformityDefinition of Conformity: Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Conditions that strengthen conformity:
When you are made to feel incompetent/insecure
When a group has at least three people
When the group is unanimous
When one admires the group’s status
When others in the group observe one’s behavior
i.e. sorority
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We are sensitive to social norms – understood rules for accepted and expected behavior – because the price we pay for being d.
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3
Carl rogers
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2. When Carl was 12, his family moved to a farm about 30 miles west of Chicago, and it was here that he was to spend his adolescence. With a strict upbringing and many chores, Carl was to become rather isolated, independent, and self-disciplined.
3. He went on to the University of Wisconsin as an agriculture major. Later, he switched to religion to study for the ministry. During this time, he was selected as one of ten students to go to Beijing for the “World Student Christian Federation Conference” for six months. He tells us that his new experiences so broadened his thinking that he began to doubt some of his basic religious views.
4. After graduation, he married Helen Elliot (against his parents’ wishes), moved to New York City, and began attending the Union Theological Seminary, a famous liberal religious institution. While there, he took a student organized seminar called “Why am I entering the ministry?” I might as well tell you that, unless you want to change your career, never take a class with such a title! He tells us that most of the participants “thought their way right out of religious work.”
5. Religion’s loss was, of course, psychology’s gain: Rogers switched to the clinical psychology program of Columbia University, and received his Ph.D. in 1931. He had already begun his clinical work at the Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. At this clinic, he learned about Otto Rank’s theory and therapy techniques, which started him on the road to developing his own approach.
6. He was offered a full professorship at Ohio State in 1940. In 1942, he wrote his first book, Counselling and Psychotherapy. Then, in 1945, he was invited to set up a counselling centre at the University of Chicago. It was while working there that in 1951 he published his major work, Client-Centered Therapy, wherein he outlines his basic theory.
13. Rogers sees mental health as the normal progression of life, and he sees mental illness, criminality, and other human problems, as distortions of that natural tendency
14. Rogers’ theory is a relatively simple one - the entire theory is built on a single “force of life” he calls the actualizing tendency, which can be defined as the built-in motivation present in every life-form to develop its potentials to the fullest extent possible.
15. Rogers believes that all creatures strive to make the very best of their existence. If they fail to do so, it is not for a lack of desire.
16. He says it is in our nature as living things to do the very best we can & he applies this to all living creatures and also things like ecosystems: a forest, with all its complexity, has a much greater actualization potential than a simple ecosystem such as a corn field. If one bug were to become extinct in a forest, there are likely to be other creatures that will adapt to fill the gap; On the other hand, one bout of “corn blight” or some such disaster, and you have a dust bowl. The same for us as individuals: If we live as we should, we will become increasingly complex, like the forest, and thereby remain flexible in the face of life’s little -- and big -- disasters.
17. In the course of actualizing their potentials, people created society and culture. In and of itself, that’s not a problem: We are a social creature, it is our nature. But when we created culture, it developed a life of its own. Rather than remaining close to other aspects of our natures, culture can become a force in its own right. And even if, in the long run, a culture that interferes with our actualization dies out, we, in all likelihood, will die with it.
18. The point is: Culture and society are not intrinsically evil! It’s more along the lines of the birds of paradise found in Papua-New Guinea. The colourful and dramatic plumage of the males apparently distracts predators from females and the young. Natural selection has led these birds towards more and more elaborate tail feathers, until in some species the male can no longer get off the ground. At that point, being colourful doesn’t do the male -- or the species -- much good! In the same way, our elaborate societies, complex cultures, incredible technologies, for all that they have helped us to survive and prosper, may at the same time serve to harm us, and possibly even destroy us.
20. Organismic Valuing: Organisms know what is good for them Evolution has provided us with the senses, the tastes, the discriminations we need: When we hunger, we find food -- not just any food, but food that tastes good. Food that tastes bad is likely to be spoiled, rotten and unhealthy
21. We instinctively value is positive regard (Rogers umbrella term for things like love, affection, attention, nurturance, and so on) It is clear that babies need love and attention. In fact, it may well be that they die without it & atleast they certainly fail to thrive -- i.e. become all they can be.
22. Another thing -- perhaps peculiarly human -- that we value is positive self-regard, which is, self-esteem, self-worth, a positive self-image. We achieve this positive self-regard by experiencing the positive regard others show us over our years of growing up. Without this self-regard, we feel small and helpless, and again we fail to become all that we can be!
24. Our society also leads us astray with conditions of worth. As we grow up, our parents, teachers, peers, the media, and others, only give us what we need when we show we are “worthy,” rather than just because we need it. E.g. we get a drink when we finish our class, we get something sweet when we finish our vegetables, and most importantly, we get love and affection if and only if we “behave”
25. Roger calls getting positive regard on “on condition” conditional positive regard
26. Because we do indeed need positive regard, these conditions are very powerful, and we bend ourselves into a shape determined, not by our organismic valuing or our actualizing tendency, but by a society that may or may not truly have our best interests at heart. A “good little boy or girl” may not be a healthy or happy boy or girl!
27. Over time, this “conditioning” leads us to have conditional positive self-regard as well. We begin to like ourselves only if we meet up with the standards others have applied to us, rather than if we are truly actualizing our potentials. And since these standards were created without keeping each individual in mind, more often than not we find ourselves unable to meet them, and therefore unable to maintain any sense of self-esteem.
29. Gap between the real self (I Am) and the ideal self (I should) the greater the gap > the more incongruity > the more the suffering.
30. Real Self: The aspect of your being that is founded in the actualizing tendency, follows organismic valuing, needs and receives positive regard and self-regard. It is the “you” that, if all goes well, you will become.
31. Ideal Self: The self we develop when we are forced to live with conditions of worth because of the societal set of beliefs. These are out of sync with the actualizing tendency, and with organismic valuing. We receive only conditional positive regard and self-regard; we develop instead an ideal self. By ideal, Rogers is suggesting something not real, something that is always out of our reach, the standard we can’t meet.
32. In fact, incongruity is what Rogers means by neurosis: Being out of synch with your own self it is precisely the same point made by Karen Horney!
34. When you are in a situation where there is an incongruity between your image of yourself and your immediate experience of yourself (i.e. between the ideal and the real self), you are in a threatening situation. For example, if you have been taught to feel unworthy if you do not get A's on all your tests, and yet you aren't really all that great a student, then situations such as tests are going to bring that incongruity to light -- tests will be very threatening.
35. When you are expecting a threatening situation, you will feel anxiety. Anxiety is a signal indicating that there is trouble ahead and that you should avoid the situation! To avoid the situation we run psychologically, by using defenses.
37. Denial: You block out the threatening situation altogether. If you keep a memory or an impulse out of your awareness i.e. refuse to perceive it, you may be able to avoid a threatening situation.
38. Perceptual distortion: Reinterpreting the situation so that it appears less threatening (similar to Freud's rationalization). A student that is threatened by tests and grades may, for example, blame the professor for poor teaching, trick questions, bad attitude, or whatever. The fact that sometimes professors are poor teachers, write trick questions, and have bad attitudes only makes the distortion work better: If it could be true, then maybe it really was true! It can also be much more obviously perceptual, such as when the person misreads his grade as better than it is.
39. Every time a neurotic person uses a defense, they put a greater distance between the real and the ideal. They become ever more incongruous, and find themselves in more and more threatening situations, develop greater and greater levels of anxiety, and use more and more defenses.... It becomes a vicious cycle that the person eventually is unable to get out of, at least on their own.
40. Rogers’s partial explanation for psychosis: Psychosis occurs when a person's defense are overwhelmed, and their sense of self becomes "shattered" into little disconnected pieces. His behavior likewise has little consistency to it. We see him as having "psychotic breaks" -- episodes of bizarre behavior.
49. Rogers insists that we not live in the past or the future -- the one is gone, and the other isn't anything at all, yet! The present is the only reality we have.
50. This doesn't mean we shouldn't remember and learn from our past. Neither does it mean we shouldn't plan or even day-dream about the future. Just recognize these things for what they are: memories and dreams, which we are experiencing here in the present.
52. We should allow ourselves to be guided by the organismic valuing process trust ourselves and do what feels right & comes natural
53. Rogers meant trust your real self, and you can only know what your real self has to say if you are open to experience and living existentially! In other words, organismic trusting assumes you are in contact with the actualizing tendency.
58. A fully-functioning person, in touch with actualization, will feel obliged by their nature to contribute to the actualization of others, even life itself
63. He felt that the therapist should not lead the client, but rather be there for the client while the client directs the progress of the therapy
64. Later he realized that, as "non-directive" as he was, he still influenced his client by his very "non-directiveness" i.e. clients look to therapists for guidance, and will find it even when the therapist is trying not to guide.
66. Felt that the client was the one who should say what is wrong, find ways of improving, and determine the conclusion of therapy -- his therapy was still very "client-centered" even while he acknowledged the impact of the therapist
69. He uses the analogy of learning to ride a bicycle to explain: When you help a child to learn to ride a bike, you can't just tell them how. They have to try it for themselves. And you can't hold them up the whole time either. There comes a point when you have to let them go. If they fall, they fall, but if you hang on, they never learn.
70. It's the same in therapy. If independence (autonomy, freedom with responsibility) is what you are helping a client to achieve, then they will not achieve it if they remain dependent on you, the therapist. They need to try their insights on their own, in real life beyond the therapist's office! An authoritarian approach to therapy may seem to work marvelously at first, but ultimately it only creates a dependent person.
73. It is the mirroring of emotional communication
74. Example: If the client says "I feel like shit!" the therapist may reflect this back to the client by saying something like "So, life's getting you down, hey?" By doing this, the therapist is communicating to the client that he is indeed listening and cares enough to understand. The therapist is also letting the client know what it is the client is communicating. Often, people in distress say things that they don't mean because it feels good to say them. For example, a woman once came to me and said "I hate men!" I reflected by saying "You hate all men?" Well, she said, maybe not all -- she didn't hate her father or her brother or, for that matter, me. Even with those men she "hated," she discovered that the great majority of them she didn't feel as strongly as the word hate implies. In fact, ultimately, she realized that she didn't trust many men, and that she was afraid of being hurt by them the way she had been by one particular man.
75. Reflection must be used carefully & be genuine & congruent Many beginning therapists use it without thinking (or feeling), and just repeat every other phrase that comes out of the client's mouth. They sound like parrots with psychology degrees!
79. Respect: acceptance, unconditional positive regard towards the client. If the therapist shows these three qualities, the client will improve, even if no other special quot;
techniquesquot;
are used. If the therapist does not show these three qualities, the client's improvement will be minimal, no matter how many quot;
techniquesquot;
are used. Rogers adds that the therapist must show these things in the therapy relationship. In other words, when the therapist leaves the office, he can be as quot;
humanquot;
as anybody. <br />Like Maslow, Rogers believes that, if left to their own devices, animals will tend to eat and drink things that are good for them, and consume them in balanced proportions. Babies, too, seem to want and like what they need. Somewhere along the line, however, we have created an environment for ourselves that is significantly different from the one in which we evolved. In this new environment are such things as refined sugar, flour, butter, chocolate, and so on, that our ancestors in Africa never knew. These things have flavors that appeal to our organismic valuing -- yet do not serve our actualization well. Over millions of years, we may evolve to find brocolli more satisfying than cheesecake -- but by then, it’ll be way too late for you and me. <br />