Carl Rogers'

Person-Centred Therapy
Therapeutic Goals Therapist Function & Role
Facilitate client's trust and ability Be present and accessible to clients and
1. to be in the present moment. to focus on their immediate experience.

2.
Promote client's self-awareness Therapist's Attributes
and self-esteem. - Congruence
- Unconditional positive regard
3. Empower the client to change. - Empathetic

Encourage congruence in the

4. Client's Experience
client's behaviour and feelings.
State of incongruence, discre-
Help people to gain the ability to pancy exists between their self-
5. manage their lives and become perception and their experience
self-actualised. in reality.

Reasons for Therapy Relationship of Therapist & Client

- Basic helplessness - Two persons in psychological contact.
- Powerlessness - Client in state of incongruence being
- Inability to make decisions vulnerable or anxious.
directly to their own lives - Therapist is congruent in the relationship.
- Therapist experiences unconditional
Techniques & Strategies positive regard for the client.
- Empathy - Therapist experiences empathetic
- No directiveness understanding of the client's internal
- Reflection of feelings frame of reference.
- Open questions - Communication to the client of the
- Paraphrasing therapist's empathetic understanding and
- Encouragers UPR is to a minimal degree achieved.