PSY405 Notes

PSY405 - Personality Psychology · Lesson no 23 · ROGERS PERSON CENTERED APPROACH · Client-centered therapy

Client-centered therapy, also known as person-centered therapy, is a non-directive form of talk therapy that was developed by humanist psychologist Carl Rogers during the 1940s and 1950s. Rogers also suggested that people have an actualizing tendency, or a desire to fulfill their potential and become the best people that they can be. Rogers was deliberate in his use of the term client rather than patient. He believed that the term patient implied that the individual was sick and seeking a cure from a therapist. By using the term client instead, Rogers emphasized the importance of the individual in seeking assistance, controlling their destiny, and overcoming their difficulties. This self-direction plays a vital part in client-centered therapy. Rogers believed that the therapist should remain non-directive.

That is to say, the therapist should not direct the client, should not pass judgments on the client's feelings, and should not offer suggestions or solutions. Instead, the client should be an equal partner in the therapeutic process.

Principles

Client-centered therapy operates according to three basic principles that reflect the attitude of the therapist to the client:

1. The therapist is congruent with the client.
2. The therapist provides the client with unconditional positive regard.
3. The therapist shows an empathetic understanding to the client.

Personality disorganization

Personality disorganization therefore means that the individual is out of adjustment with society who has failed to organize the chief goals of his life into an integrated whole so as to achieve unity of the self. Personality disorganization may take the milder or serious forms of mental disorder.

Psychopathology

Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress or the manifestation of behaviors and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness

Student Centered Teaching

Student-centered learning means inverting the traditional teacher-centered understanding of the learning process and putting students at the center of the learning process. In the teacher- centered classroom, teachers are the primary source for knowledge.

Lesson 24

KELLY’S COGNITIVE THEORY OF PERSONALITY THEORY

Cognitive theories of personality focus on the processes of information encoding and retrieval, and the role of expectations, motives, goals, and beliefs in the development of stable personality characteristics. ... Cognitive theories of personality are both nomothetic and idiographic.