Realizing that one is mortal and time allotment is relevant awakens the awareness that each moment is crucial and direction in life is essential. V. Person-Centered Therapy is Carl Roger's humanistic approach with influences from the existential application. The emphasis is on concepts such as freedom, choice, values, personal responsibility, autonomy, purpose, and meaning. Clients seek therapy to work through feelings of helplessness, powerlessness, and inability to make decisions or effectively direct their own lives. A. Congruence is therapeutically most important in the person-centered therapy.
Congruence is the genuineness and empathy of the authentic therapist.
Therapists must explore, with the client, persistent feelings that block their ability to be fully present with the client. B. Unconditional Positive Regard is the conception placed on the client by the therapist that the therapist's acceptance is unconditional without any stipulations. The greater the degree of caring, prizing, accepting and valuing of the client in a nonpossessive way, the greater the chance that therapy will be successful. Empathic understanding implies that the therapist will sense clients' feelings as if they were his or her own, without becoming lost in those feelings. D. Person-Centered therapy encourages locating power in the person, rather than fostering an authoritative structure in which control and power are denied to the person.