Person-Centered Therapy In Group Therapy: The Basic Encounter Group

Person-centered therapy is a humanistic approach which is based on how individuals perceive themselves while they are conscious and not on the counselor’s interpretation of their unconscious thoughts or ideas. The core purpose of the person-centered approach is to aid the client's actualizing tendency (self-actualization is the belief that humans will follow what is best for them). Thus, this therapy aids personal growth and relationships of an individual which enables them to explore and use their own strengths and personal identity. A person-centered counselor will facilitate this process and will provide vital support.
Person-centered therapy began as a system in the 1950s by Carl Rogers who was an American psychologist. According to the

The person-centered Basic Encounter Group is entirely extraordinary and it offers an alternate worldview for gathering treatment. In reality, the use of the premises of the person-centered approach in group therapy requires a reconsideration of a lot of the presuppositions about functioning of the group. This incorporates presuppositions about leader target population, group size, foundation of rules, objectives and guidelines, and facilitator behavior. This conflict is in opposition to the conclusion given by Boy(1985) which states that, the client-centered basic encounter group is in the standard of methodologies for working with gatherings in view of its diverse nature and its absence of recognizing components to separate it from different procedure

The essential presumptions continued to be the same. The objective of person-centered therapy is to encourage the making of an atmosphere in every individual and the group of persons. The facilitator of the group requires the same effort as the individual therapist to be conversant in the moment-to-moment activity of persons in relationship without reverting on theory and clarifications of process. The core of the person-centered philosophy in leadership behavior incorporates offering self-rule to persons in group, liberating them to do their thing (i.e., communicating their own thoughts and emotions as one part of the group data), encouraging learning, stimulating independence in thought and activity, tolerating the unacceptable imaginative manifestations that rise, offering and getting input, empowering and depending on self-assessment, and discovering reward in the advancement and accomplishment of others (Rogers, 1977). This same logic underlies the client-centered therapist’s part with an individual client. It was, and remains, a progressive thought that the client may be his or her own expert, that the client's own thoughts and sentiments could be more vital than the therapist's interpretations and proposals, that the client could accomplish autonomy in thought and activity, that the client may reach acceptable, inventive self-creations, and that the