Carl Rogers Person Centred Therapy Essay

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Carl Rogers (1902–1987) person/ client-centred therapy was designed to promote openness, growth and change. This model is appropriate to this study as it is founded on attitude, based on three core conditions empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard. Person centred way of communication is oriented toward offering a clear and facilitative relationship towards others. Rogers (1967) believe that individuals are motivated to explore their potential, achieve healthy growth and develop to self-worth and personality.

Empathy
Empathy is the state of feeling a continuing desire to understand the other person. Empathy is ability to perceive and recognize others’ feelings, the causes of these feelings, and to be able to share in the emotional …show more content…

This shows trust in the client’s capability and tendency to actualize (Tudor et al., 2004, p. 43). Empathy involves accurate awareness of other feelings. The capacity to understand a different person’s situation as if it was happening to you, imagining if it were you in the same situation (Rodgers 1975 g. 140, Egan1986 pg. 95). This could be implemented by taking the client to the toilet as a matter of urgency or engage in teamwork through communicating and delegate the task to another …show more content…

Congruence is openness towards one’s self. Nurses must be able to show genuineness about their feeling and emotions when engaged in interaction with patients, for patients to be aware. (Rogers, 1980) views it as presentation of true thoughts and feeling, both verbal and non-verbal. Therefore, being thoughtful of patients' verbal and non-verbal messages, nurses are also being mindful of their feelings. Mindfulness is an open and undivided awareness of current experiences both internally and externally in oneself, rather than a cognitive approach to stimuli (Brown & Ryan, 2003, p. 822). Mindlessness, on the other hand, is when a person refuses to acknowledge or focus on a thought, emotion, motive or object of perception (Brown & Ryan, 2003, p.

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