The counsellor engages in an honest and transparent relationship with the client. The self are those perceived characteristics and relationship between the 'I' or 'me' in the individual. Self-actualisation is the tendency to develop and become one's best self.
Congruence is a consistency between perceptions of the self and what one experiences.
In the last part of the lecture research examining the empathy construct is explored. The various ways in which empathy is conceptualised will be presented and recent empathy research presented.