Carl Rogers's Person-Centred Therapy

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This essay will examine and evaluate the fundamental principles of Carl Rogers’s theory Person-Centred therapy alongside the variation of techniques that is used to support this model. In order to do this, the essay will present the main theory and core conditions and how this is then implemented in the therapist and client relationship. Carl Roger (1951) established the Person-centred therapy originally known as the client-centred therapy which is founded on the humanistic psychology that states human should be seen as dignified individuals that have the ultimate power to achieve change in their lives.

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