TUTORIAL TASK EDU 3107

CLIENT-CENTERED THEORY

ADVANTAGES
This type of therapy concentrates on the here and now, and encourages the client to think in present time. It recognises and values the client.

DISADVANTAGES
It perhaps slightly too optimistic about human potential and people's ability to change

It encourages self-expression, selfawareness, self-development and a greater understanding of self. If practised properly, it's a wonderful form of therapy providing a catalytic environment for change. No other form of therapy provides as good an environment for UPC, empathy, understanding and deconditioning. Every therapist should have fundamental elements of PCC incorporated into their treatment models, and be willing to fully embrace it's principles Places the client at the heart of any process of change, rather identifying them as a victim of circumstance or external factors

Surprisingly few therapists are capable of adopting a genuine humanistic approach, as it makes demands on their abilities and them as a person, which they simply do not have Cannot properly be learned or practiced using purely mechanistic approaches