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What is distinctive about the Person-Centred Approach to counselling? Describe how you have put this approach into practice and to what effect.
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BSc. Counselling studies Level Two Assignment 1 What is distinctive about the Person-Centred Approach to counselling? Describe how you have put this approach into practice and to what effect. "The essence of the Person-Centred therapy, is the therapist dedication to going with the client's direction, at the clients pace in the clients unique way of being." Bozarth, 1988, pg. 59 The Person-Centred Therapy operates on key issues related to the actualising tendency. To fully understand this, an outline of Rogers' personality theory will be discussed, including a comparison of its similarities and differences to other theories. According to Thorne (2000, p.24), Rogers believes that the surest route to understanding a person's behaviour is to come to a knowledge of that persons subjective awareness of himself or herself and of the world in which he or she exists. Rogers also believes that there is only one single, basic human motive, which he called the Actualising Tendency. The...
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