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Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers. Carl Rogers. “. . . the most wonderful miracle in the world took place. .”. Subjective Experiences. Inner reality more important than objective reality Inner experiences Conscious experiences Experiences that can be verbalized or imagined Unconscious experiences

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Carl Rogers

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  1. Carl Rogers

  2. Carl Rogers “. . . the most wonderful miracle in the world took place. .”

  3. Subjective Experiences • Inner reality more important than objective reality • Inner experiences • Conscious experiences • Experiences that can be verbalized or imagined • Unconscious experiences • Experiences that cannot be verbalized or imagined

  4. Self-Actualizing Tendency • Innate motive toward fulfillment of our potentials • “Innate goodness”

  5. So why do people do bad things? • Infants perceive their experiences as reality

  6. Uninhibited by the evaluations of others • All behavior directed toward satisfying need for SA • Organismic Valuing Process • SA is the criterion used to make judgments of worth

  7. As we get older. . . . • Start to experience a need for positive regard • Satisfying the needs for others satisfies this need

  8. True self

  9. Social self Created through contact with others True self

  10. Social self Prevents us from getting into touch with our true self True self

  11. Social self Leads to “conditions of worth” True self

  12. So why do people do bad things? • Social self hinders movement toward SA • Not behaving like true self causes anxiety • Anxiety causes defense mechanisms

  13. So why do people do bad things? Psychotic

  14. Positive Development • Avoid conditions of worth • Unconditional positive regard • Congruence between true self and experiences

  15. Fully Functioning Person • Open to experience • Characterized by existential living • Trust their organisms • Are creative • Live rich lives

  16. George Kelly

  17. Activity • How do you describe people • Commonly use Constructs that are learned • Start to see the world a different way

  18. Every Person is a Scientist • We have our own theories about human behavior • We have constructs that we think are important • Not as “scientific” as traditional science • It is our VIEW of reality that is important • Not reality itself

  19. Construct • Our constructs determine how we interpret an event • Constructs are bipolar • What is the other pole is also subjective • Thus two people may see the same event differently

  20. s • Charlie Sincere Insincere • Willy Sincere Morally degenerate

  21. Charlie Sincere Insincere • Willy Sincere Morally degenerate

  22. If they see Veruca Salt do something that is not sincere

  23. If they see Veruca Salt do something that is not sincere Will think she is insincere React with mild disapproval

  24. If they see Veruca Salt do something that is not sincere Will think she is morally degenerate Will be angry and upset

  25. Constructive Alternativism • All of us are capable of changing our interpretation of events • Our constructs • Behavior is never determined

  26. Assessing Constructs

  27. Research • Using Kelly’s constructs • Can understand constructs person uses to see the world • Can understand how a person sees self • Look at the check marks (and missing check marks) • How a person sees self in relation to others • Who do you think you are most similar too? • Are you similar to anyone? • Look at number of check marks in the self column

  28. Research • Cognitive Complexity • Did you use different constructs across all people? • Cognitive simplicity • Do not differentiate how you perceive others • Cognitive complexity • Highly different views of others

  29. Research • Cognitive Complexity • Differentiate among many different events in the environments – should be able to make more accurate judgments

  30. Research • Cognitive Complexity • Better able to anticipate school stresses • Make more realistic occupational choices • Better able to predict the behavior of others

  31. Review • Freud • Key ideas • Psychic Determinism • Unconscious • Internal Structure • Psychic Conflict • Mental Energy • Doctrine of Opposites • Parts of the mind

  32. Review • Freud • Psychosexual stages • Defense mechanisms • Denial • Repression • Reaction Formation • Projection • Rationalization • Intellectualization • Regression • Sublimation

  33. Review • Freud • Parapraxes • Humor

  34. Review • Neo-Freudians • Carl Jung • Archetypes • Collective Unconscious • Alfred Adler • Feelings of inferiority • Striving for superiority • Importance of birth order

  35. Review • Neo-Freudians • Karen Horney • Anxiety • Coping with anxiety (types) • Erick Erikson • Eight stages of development

  36. Review • Existentialism • Phenomenonological • Humanistic • Free will • Awareness • Meaning

  37. Review • Carl Rogers • Self-Actualization • True self vs. social self • Conditions of wroth • Unconditional positive regard • Abraham Maslow • Hierarchy of needs • Flow • George Kelly • Constructs

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