Carl Rogers developed person-centered therapy, which focuses on empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard in therapy. The therapist acts as a facilitator for the client's self-guided growth and problem-solving. The goal is for clients to become more independent, integrated, and capable of trusting their own experiences and instincts. Person-centered therapy emphasizes experiencing the present moment fully and accepting oneself unconditionally.

1. Carl Roger’s Person-Centered
Therapy
Dayon Thomas
M.Sc.(MB)
Reg.No.12LS4101

2. PSYCHOLOGY
An academic and applied discipline that
involves the scientific study of mental
functions and behaviors.

3. Prominent Branches of Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Existentialism and Humanism

4. HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
 Holistic approach to human existence
Special attention creativity, free will, and
human potential.

6. Carl Rogers
•Born in 1902 in united states in a family with agriculture
backgrounds.
•Joined agriculture university of Wisconsin
•Nature taught him the strength of human capability
•Joined Columbia university and became a psychologist at
Rochester Child Guidance Clinic
•At Ohio state university and development of “Client-
centered therapy”

7. HUMANISTIC APPROACH OF CARL
ROGERS
In the person, an ability to actualize the
self.
Result - person solving his or her own
problems.

8. THEORY OF THE PERSON
The person is an active process
Each of us has a natural potential
that we can actualize and through
which we can find meaning

9. PERSON- CENTERED THERAPY
A counseling technique

10. GOALS OF PERSON-CENTERED
THERAPY
Increase the independence and integration of the
client
Focus on the person, not the problem
Create the conditions necessary for positive
growth
Develop openness to new experiences, trust in
themselves, internal source of evaluation, and
willingness to continue growing

11. The Role of the Therapist
Therapists are used as instruments of change but are not
to direct the change in client
Therapist helps develop an environment in which the
client can grow
Through attitudes of genuine caring, respect, and
understanding the client is able to let their defenses down
& become more self aware
Therapist reflects client’s view of the
world(Phenomenological approach)

12. THE PROCESS OF THERAPY
There are no real techniques, other than listening,
empathizing, understanding, and responding to the
client
The client’s self-assessment is of primary
importance
There are no specific stages to the process, as it is
all about the client’s own process of change and
growth, which must happen at their own pace

13. CONDITIONS IN PERSON-CENTERED
THERAPY
Direction comes from the client rather than from
the therapist’s insights, so referred to as
nondirective therapy, later client-centered therapy
Empathy
Congruence/Genuineness
Unconditional Positive Regard

14. CHARACTERISTICS OF A FULLY
FUNCTIONING PERSON
 These people are open to their experiences. They strive
to experience life to its fullest & are willing to take some
risks.
 These people live in the present (here & now).
 These folks trust their own feelings & instincts. They
aren’t held back by old standards or concern for what
others might think.
organismic trusting, experiential freedom, and creativity

15. KEY CONCEPTS
Clients have resources for positive movement
Client has capacity to resolve life problems without
interpretation and direction from therapist
Fully experience the present moment
Learn to accept oneself
Decide on ways to change
Views mental health as a congruence between what one
wants to become and what one actually is.

16. Applications
Individual and group counseling
Student-centered teaching and learning
Parent-child relations and human relations
training labs
Anxiety disorders, alcoholism, psychosomatic
problems, agoraphobia, interpersonal difficulties,
depression, cancer, personality disorders
Well suited for early phases of crisis intervention
Administration and management and systems
and institutions

17. References
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http://psychology.about.com/od/typesofpsychotherapy/a/client-centered-therapy.htm
http://world.std.com/~mbr2/cct.html
http://www.csun.edu/~hcpsy002/Psy460_Ch07_Handout_ppt.pdf
http://www.ivcc.edu/uploadedFiles/_faculty/_mangold/Carl%20Rogers%20-
%20Client%20Centered%20Theory.pdf
Rogers, C. R. (1951). Client-centered Therapy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Rogers, C. R., & Dymond, R. F. (1954). Psychotherapy and personality change. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.

18. Thank you