Client Centred Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

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A wealth of information from past to present with all the underpinnings that are of course still used today within this psychotherapy form. The way I understand it, Client Centered Therapy is about providing a warm, accepting echo chamber to the client. Presenting the non-directive and related points of view in counselling and therapy, Rogers gives a clear exposition of procedures by which individuals who are being counselled may be assisted in achieving for themselves new and more effective personality adjustments. Early on in the preface the reader is faced with Rogers' philosophical roots when he refers to himself as 'a midwife to a new personality.

This review could go on for well over twenty pages if I was to cover the most important concepts developed in this book. As this process continues, we carve a model of reality that becomes more and more refined, more and more accurate.Rogers has endeavored to bring the realities of the counseling session – the anxiety, the despair, the hope, and the satisfaction – into the text. x,xi) This quotation is reminiscent of Socrates who once considered himself a midwife to men concerning their souls and self-knowledge.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It is the role of the therapist to reflect (and accept) the expressions of the client with the emotional obfuscation removed.For Rogers, a therapy room where the practitioner forbids himself to involve himself emotionally to the client sends a message: in this room it is unsafe to explore emotions.

The publication itself is not very thorough in these definitions, my own understanding may be lacking, and I must refer once again that Rogers felt that some parts of experience are not adequately captured by words.I read Roger's CCT in such a context, my second exposure to him, the first having been in an earlier EdPsych class.

My own visual interpretation of this point is the following: at birth we start with a blank slate, a cube of granite. Therefore, experience should dictate and precede theory as words will always fall short of the full experience. Second, the idea of taking money from clients for the kind of minimalist non-directive therapy they advocated seemed unethical.A very useful book for the therapist, student or if you're just interested in either therapy or some rationalisations of the human mind. The commonly known technique of active listening is better viewed this way: echoing back to the person his perception of his inner world. Equally admirable is Rogers' claim that the therapist must involve himself personally in the therapeutic process.