16.rogers - Person-Centered Theory

Chapter 10 Rogers: Person-Centered Theory
Chapter 10
Rogers: Person-Centered Theory
Learning Objectives
After reading Chapter10, you should be able to:
1. Identify the formative and actualizing tendencies.
2. Discuss Rogers' concept of self and its development.
3. State the basic needs of individuals according to person-centered

theory.
4. Distinguish among self, self-actualization, self-concept, and ideal

self.
5. List and describe Rogers' necessary and sufficient conditions for

psychological growth.
6. Discuss the concept of the person of tomorrow and its implications

for future humanity.
7. Discuss Rogers' philosophy of science.
Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

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8. Discuss the methods, procedures, and results of Rogers' research on

the effectiveness of client-centered therapy.
9. Discuss research on Rogers' facilitative conditions in situations

outside the therapeutic relationship.
10. Critique Rogers' person-centered theory on the six criteria of a useful

theory.
I. Overview of Rogers's Person-Centered Theory

Although Carl Rogers is best known as the founder of client-
centered therapy, he also developed an important theory of
personality that underscores his approach to therapy.
II. Biography of Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers was born into a devoutly religious family in a Chicago
suburb in 1902. After the family moved to a nearby farm, Carl
became interested in scientific farming and learned to appreciate
the scientific method. When he graduated from the University of
Wisconsin, Rogers intended to become a minister, but he gave up
that notion and completed a PhD in psychology from Columbia
University in 1931. In 1940, after nearly a dozen years away from
an academic life working as a clinician, he took a position at Ohio
State University. Later, he held positions at the University of
Chicago and the University of Wisconsin. In 1964, he moved to

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California, where he helped found the Center for Studies of the

Person. He died in 1987 at age 85.
III. Person-Centered Theory
Rogers carefully crafted his person-centered theory of personality
to meet his own demands for a structural model that could explain
and predict outcomes of client-centered therapy. However, the
theory has implications far beyond the therapeutic setting.
A. Basic Assumptions
Person-centered theory rests on two basic assumptions: (1) the
formative tendency that states that all matter, both organic and
inorganic, tends to evolve from simpler to more complex forms
and (2) an actualizing tendency, which suggests that all living
things, including humans, tend to move toward completion, or
fulfillment of potentials. However, in order for people (or plants
and animals) to become actualized, certain identifiable conditions
must be present. For a person, these conditions include a
relationship with another person who is genuine, or congruent, and
who demonstrates complete acceptance and empathy for that
person.
B. The Self and Self-Actualization
A sense of self or personal identity begins to emerge during
infancy, and once established, it allows a person to strive toward
self-actualization, which is a subsystem of the actualization
tendency and refers to the tendency to actualize the self as
perceived in awareness. The self has two subsystems: (1) the self-

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concept, which includes all those aspects of one's identity that are
perceived in awareness, and (2) the ideal self, or our view of our
self as we would like to be or aspire to be. Once formed, the self
concept tends to resist change, and gaps between it and the ideal
self result in incongruence and various levels of psychopathology.
C. Awareness
People are aware of both their self-concept and their ideal self,
although awareness need not be accurate. For example, people may
have an inflated view of their ideal self but only a vague sense of
their self-concept. Rogers saw people as having experiences on
three levels of awareness: (1) those that are symbolized below the
threshold of awareness and are ignored, denied, or not allowed into
the self-concept; (2) those that are distorted or reshaped to fit it into
an existing self-concept; and (3) those that are consistent with the
self-concept and thus are accurately symbolized and freely
admitted to the self-structure. Any experience not consistent with
the self-concept—even positive experiences—will be distorted or
denied.
D. Needs
The two basic human needs are maintenance and enhancement, but
people also need positive regard and self-regard. Maintenance
needs include those for food, air, and safety, but they also include
our tendency to resist change and to maintain our self-concept as it
is. Enhancement needs include needs to grow and to realize one's
full human potential. As awareness of self emerges, an infant

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begins to receive positive regard from another person, that is, to be

loved or accepted. People naturally value those experiences that
satisfy their needs for positive regard, but unfortunately, this value
sometimes becomes more powerful than the reward they receive
for meeting their organismic needs. This sets up the condition of
incongruence, which is experienced when basic organismic needs
are denied or distorted in favor of needs to be loved or accepted.
As a result of experiences with positive regard, people develop the
need for self-regard which they acquire only after they perceive
that someone else cares for them and values them. Once
established, however, self-regard becomes autonomous and no
longer dependent on another person's continuous positive
evaluation.
E. Conditions of Worth
Most people are not unconditionally accepted. Instead, they
receive conditions of worth; that is, they feel that they are loved
and accepted only when and if they meet the conditions set by
others.
F. Psychological Stagnation
When the organismic self and the self-concept are at variance with
one another, a person may experience incongruence, anxiety,
threat, defensiveness, and even disorganization. The greater the
incongruence between self-concept and the organismic experience,
the more vulnerable that person becomes. Anxiety exists
whenever the person becomes dimly aware of the discrepancy

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between organismic experience and self-concept, whereas threat is

experienced whenever the person becomes more clearly aware of
this incongruence. To prevent incongruence, people react with
defensiveness, typically in the forms of distortion and denial. With
distortion, people misinterpret an experience so that it fits into their
self-concept; with denial, people refuse to allow the experience
into awareness. When people's defenses fail to operate properly,
their behavior becomes disorganized or psychotic. With
disorganization, people sometimes behave consistently with their
organismic experience, and sometimes in accordance with their
shattered self-concept.
IV. Psychotherapy
For client-centered psychotherapy to be effective, six conditions
are necessary: (1) A vulnerable client must (2) have contact of
some duration with a counselor who is (3) congruent and who
demonstrates (4) unconditional positive regard and who (5) listens
with empathy to a client. In addition, the client must (6) perceives
the congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy. If
these conditions are present, then the process of therapy will take
place and certain predictable outcomes will result.
A. Conditions
Three of these conditions are crucial to client-centered therapy, and
Rogers called them the necessary and sufficient conditions for
therapeutic growth. The first is counselor congruence, or a
therapist whose organismic experiences are matched by an

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awareness and by the ability and willingness to openly express

these feelings. Congruence is more basic than the other two
conditions because it is a relatively stable characteristic of the
therapist, whereas the other two conditions are limited to a specific
therapeutic relationship. Unconditional positive regard exists when
the therapist accepts and prizes the client without conditions or
qualifications. Empathic listening is the ability of the therapist to
sense the feeling of a client and also to communicate these
perceptions so that the client knows that another person has entered
into his or her world of feelings without prejudice, projection, or
evaluation.
B. Process
Rogers saw the process of therapeutic change as taking place in
seven stages: (1) clients are unwilling to communicate anything
about themselves; (2) they discuss only external events and other
people; (3) they begin to talk about themselves, but still as an
object; (4) they discuss strong emotions that they have felt in the
past; (5) they begin to express present feelings; (6) they freely
allow into awareness those experiences that were previously
denied or distorted; and (7) they experience irreversible change and
growth.
C. Outcomes
When client-centered therapy is successful, clients become more
congruent, less defensive, more open to experience, and more
realistic. The gap between their ideal self and their true self

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narrows and as a consequence, clients experience less

physiological and psychological tension. Finally, clients'
interpersonal relationships improve because they are more
accepting of self and others.
V. The Person of Tomorrow
If people receive the three necessary and sufficient conditions for
psychological health person, then they will grow toward becoming
the "fully functioning person" or the "person of tomorrow." Rogers
listed seven characteristics of the person of tomorrow. First,
persons of tomorrow would be more adaptable and more flexible in
their thinking. Second, they would be open to their experiences,
accurately symbolizing them in awareness rather than denying or
distorting them. Persons of tomorrow would listen to themselves
and hear their joy, anger, discouragement, fear, and tenderness. A
third characteristic would be a tendency to live fully in the
moment, experiencing a constant state of fluidity and change.
They would see each experience with a new freshness and
appreciate it fully in the present moment. Rogers (1961) referred
to this tendency to live in the moment as existential living. Fourth,
persons of tomorrow would remain confident of their own ability to
experience harmonious relations with others. They would feel no
need to be liked or loved by everyone, because they would know
that they are unconditionally prized and accepted by someone.
Fifth, they would be more integrated, more whole, with no artificial
boundary between conscious processes and unconscious ones.

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Because they would be able to accurately symbolize all their

experiences in awareness, they would see clearly the difference
between what is and what should be. Sixth, persons of tomorrow
would have a basic trust of human nature. They would experience
anger, frustration, depression, and other negative emotions, but
they would be able to express rather than repress these feelings.
Finally, because persons of tomorrow are open to all their
experiences, they would enjoy a greater richness in life than do
other people. They would live in the present and thus participate
more richly in the ongoing moment.
VI. Philosophy of Science
Rogers agreed with Maslow that scientists must care about the
phenomena they study and that psychologists should limit their
objectivity and precision to their methodology, not to the creation
of hypotheses or to the communication of research findings.
VII. The Chicago Studies
When he taught at the University of Chicago and again at the
University of Wisconsin, Rogers along with colleagues and
graduate students conducted an experimental investigation on the
effectiveness of psychotherapy. These studies, though now old,
remain as some of the best designed and most sophisticated of all
such investigations.
A. Hypotheses
This study at the University of Chicago tested four broad
hypotheses. As a consequence of therapy (1) clients will become

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more aware of their feelings and experiences, (2) the gap between
the real self and the ideal self will lessen; (3) clients' behavior will
become more socialized; and (4) clients will become both more
self-accepting and more accepting of others.
B. Method
Participants were adults who sought therapy at the University of
Chicago counseling center. Experimenters asked half of them to
wait 60 days before receiving therapy while beginning therapy
with the other half. In addition, they tested a control group of
"normals" who were matched with the therapy group. This control
group was also divided into a wait group and a non-wait group.
C. Findings
Rogers and his associates found that the therapy group—but not
the wait group—showed a lessening of the gap between real self
and ideal self. They also found that clients who improved during
therapy showed changes in social behavior, as reported by their
friends.
D. Summary of Results
Although client-centered therapy was successful in changing
clients, it was not successful in bringing them to the level of the
fully functioning persons or even to the level of "normal"
psychological health.
VIII. Related Research
More recently, other researchers have investigated Rogers'
facilitative conditions both outside therapy and within therapy.

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A. Self-Ideal, Congruence, and Mental Health:

Self-Discrepancy Theory
In the 1980s, E. Tory Higgins developed a version of
Rogers' model called self-discrepancy theory.
Higgins hypothesized that individuals with high levels
of self-discrepancy were most likely to experience
high levels of negative affect in their lives, such as
anxiety and depression. Ann Phillips and Paul Silvia
(2005) predicted that the negative emotion
experienced from either real-ideal or real-ought
discrepancies would be greatest when people are
more self-aware or self-focused. Their hypothesis
was supported by their findings when they compared
participants completing their questionnaires in front
of a mirror to participants without a mirror.
Other researchers have found that college students
with a high discrepancy between real and ideal self-
perceptions tended to drink more alcohol in a
controlled setting (Wolfe & Maisto, 2000). Others
applied Higgins’ self-discrepancy theory to eating
disorders (Veale, Kinderman, Riley, & Lambrou,
2003), and to general mental health (Liao & Fan,
2003). In general, these results supported Rogers'
notion that people whose ideal self is at variance

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with their real self may turn to unhealthy behaviors

as a means of coping with this discrepancy.
B. Motivation and Pursuit of Goals
Rogers proposed (1951) that we all have an
organismic valuing process (OVP), or a natural
instinct guiding us toward the most fulfilling pursuits.
Ken Sheldon and colleagues (2003) explored the
existence of an OVP in college students. Their
hypothesis that if people have an OVP, over time
they will rate more inherently fulfilling goals as more
desirable than materialistic goals, was supported by
their findings. Schwartz and Waterman found from
their longitudinal study (2006) that the more self-
realizing experiences people have, the more intrinsic
motivation they are likely to experience, just as Carl
Rogers would have predicted.
IX. Critique of Rogers
Rogers' person-centered theory is one of the most carefully
constructed of all personality theories, and it meets quite well each
of the six criteria of a useful theory. It rates very high on internal
consistency and parsimony, high on its ability to be falsified and
to generate research, and high average on its ability to organize
knowledge and to serve as a guide to the practitioner.
X. Concept of Humanity

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Rogers believed that humans have the capacity to change and grow
—provided that certain necessary and sufficient conditions are
present. Therefore, his theory rates very high on optimism. In
addition, it rates high on free choice, teleology, conscious
motivation, social influences, and the uniqueness of the individual.
Test Items
Fill-in-the-Blanks
1. Rogers wanted to be a ______________________ after he graduated

from the University of Wisconsin, but he switched to psychology
when he went to Columbia University.
2. Rogers's system of therapy is called ______________________, and

his theory of personality can be called person-centered.
3. The ______________________ tendency suggests that all matter

tends to evolve from simpler to more complex forms.
4. The ______________________ tendency suggests that people tend

to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials.

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5. A state of ________________________ exists when the organismic

self, the perceived self, and the ideal self are in harmony.
6. To Rogers, the real self and the __________________ self are the
same concept.
7. Rogers believed that each of us has an _____________________

self, that is, a picture of our self as we would wish to be.
8. Discrepancies between the _________________________ and the

organismic self results in incongruence.
9. A discrepancy between self-concept and organismic experiences is

called ____________________.
10. People often deny or ____________________ both positive and

negative experiences because these experiences threaten an
established self-concept.
11. All of us, Rogers said, have a need for ______________________,

that is, a feeling of self-confidence and self-worth.
12. We experience ______________________ of worth whenever a

significant other accepts only our positive behaviors and traits.

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13. The need for _______________________ would include the need

for food, sleep, and the tendency to resist change.
14. The need for ________________________ includes the need to

grow, to develop, and to become a more fully-functioning person.
15. The first condition for therapeutic growth is that a

_____________________ client comes into contact with a congruent
therapist.
16. A _____________________ person is one whose organismic

experiences are matched by an awareness of them and a willingness
to communicate them honestly.
17. Unconditional ____________________________ exists when the

therapist prizes the client regardless of the client's behavior.
18. A state of ______________________ exists when therapists

accurately sense the feelings of their clients and are able to
communicate these perceptions so that the clients know that another
person is on their wavelength.
19. According to Rogers, _____________________ living is the

tendency to live in the moment.

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20. The issues of freedom and control of human behavior were at the
heart of a series of debates between Rogers and
________________________.
True-False
______1. Carl Rogers' parents were teachers, and they encouraged him to
become a teacher.
_____ 2. Rogers's theory of personality grew out of his experiences as a

psychotherapist.
______3. Rogers' approach to psychotherapy is most accurately called

nondirective.
______4. As a schoolboy, Rogers became interested in scientific

farming, an interest that contributed to his later research
abilities.
______5. After receiving his PhD, Rogers spent more than 10 years in
clinical practice, mostly isolated from the academic
community, and this isolation helped him develop an approach
to therapy that was unique.

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______6. According to Rogers, all living organisms possess the

actualizing tendency.
______7. Once the self-concept is formed, change becomes difficult.
______8. Self-actualization is a subsystem of the actualizing tendency.
______9. In Rogerian theory, the actualizing tendency refers to the

person's organismic or physiological experiences.
_____10. Rogers believed that healthy people adjust their organismic self
in order to make it congruent with their ideal self.
_____11. Receiving praise or compliments can be threatening to a

person's self-concept.
_____12. Maintenance needs include the need to resist change.
_____13. After people have established unconditional positive self-

regard, they no longer depend on others for unconditional
positive regard.
_____14. Rogers held that healthy people evaluate their experience from
the viewpoint of significant others.

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_____15. According to Rogers, people with low self-worth who receive

positive external evaluations will assimilate these evaluations
into their self-concept, and thus will grow toward
psychological health.
_____16. According to Rogers, a vulnerable person is unaware of the

discrepancy between self and experience.
_____17. Rogers was more interested in building a theory than in

conducting psychotherapy.
_____18. The three necessary conditions for therapeutic growth, Rogers

believed, are counselor congruence, unconditional positive
regard, and empathic listening.
_____19. Rogers believed that when client-centered therapy is

successful, clients become their own therapists.
_____20. A strong criticism of Rogers' theory is that it has not produced

any research.
Multiple Choice
_____ 1. At the height of his career, Rogers engaged in a series of

debates with
a. George Kelly.

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b. Carl Jung.
c. B.F. Skinner.
d. Albert Bandura.
______2. As a young boy, Rogers

a was shy and frequently teased by his older brothers and sisters.
b. spent 2 years in a detention home for wayward boys.
c. wanted to be a physician.
d. held deep-seated animosity toward his mother.
______3. Rogers described the formative tendency as the tendency for

a. humans to form intimate interpersonal relationships.
b. matter to evolve from simpler to more complex form.
c. people to strive toward self-actualization.
d. people to return to an inorganic state.
______4. Rogers believed that all behavior relates to one's

a. enhancement needs.
b. ideal self.
c. safety needs.
d. actualizing tendency.
______5. Healthy people evaluate their experiences as good or bad

according to this criterion.
a. the self-concept
b. perceived self

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c. reflected appraisal of others

d. the actualizing tendency
______6. In Rogerian theory, the actualization tendency

a. is synonymous with the formative tendency.
b. has the same or nearly the same meaning as self-actualization.
c. refers to the person's organismic experiences.
d. refers to the tendency to actualize the perceived self.
______7. Inner tension arises, Rogers said, when a conflict exists

between the
a. self-actualization tendency and the organismic self.
b. emotion and cognition.
c. the values of others and one's own values.
d. the formative tendency and the actualization tendency.
______8. A discrepancy between the self-concept and the ideal self

results in
a. ego defense mechanisms.
b. safe-guarding tendencies.
c. the person of tomorrow.
d. incongruence.
_____9. Taylor's parents praise her whenever her behavior meets with
their standards. However, they punish Taylor when her

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behavior fails to meet with their approval. From this

information it appears that Taylor is experiencing
a. low self-esteem.
b. conditions of worth.
c. disorganization.
d. high self-esteem.
_____10. Tyler has a negative view of himself. To increase his self-

concept, his parents and teachers continually praise and
compliment him. Rogers believed that such praise and
compliments are most likely to
a. enhance Tyler's self-esteem.
b. reinforce Tyler's negative behavior.
c. be easily accepted into Tyler's self-concept.
d. be distorted by Tyler.
_____11. According to Rogers, the two basic human needs are

a. sex and safety.
b. self-actualization and self-enhancement.
c. power and submission.
d. maintenance and enhancement.
_____12. Rogers believed that, for psychologically healthy individuals,

a. the self and experience are congruent.
b. denial of organismic functioning is essential.

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c. the ideal self replaces the real self.

d. an incongruence exists between their organismic self and their
ideal self.
_____13. Which statement is consistent with Rogers' theory?

a. Self-regard is originally dependent on self-concept.
b. Once achieved, self-regard can exist independently of others'
opinions and attitudes.
c. Self-regard is symptomatic of malignant egoism.
d. Self-regard stems from the negative appraisals received from
others.
_____14. An unawareness of a discrepancy between self and experience

leads to
a. psychological health.
b. anxiety.
c. threat.
d. vulnerability.
e. guilt.
_____15. According to Rogers, the two primary defensive strategies are

______.
a. repression and denial
b. repression and reaction formation
c. denial and distortion

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d. repression and regression
_____16. Rogers believed that a person with a disorganized personality

may at times behave consistently with organismic experience
and at other times consistently with
a. the ideal self.
b. others' expectations.
c. the shattered self-concept.
d. the actualizing tendency.
_____17. Rogers hypothesized that empathy, unconditional positive

regard, and congruence are
a. necessary and sufficient conditions for therapy.
b. necessary but not sufficient conditions for therapy.
c. sufficient but not necessary conditions for therapy.
d. neither necessary nor sufficient for therapy.
_____18. In the Chicago studies,

a. clients who received no therapy experienced the same level of
growth as did the clients in the therapy group.
b. clients who received no therapy received no psychological
growth.
c. Carl Rogers was the sole therapist.
d. all the therapist were graduate students.

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_____19. Clients are better able to listen to themselves when the

therapist possesses
a. sympathy for them.
b. empathy for them.
c. conditions of worth toward them.
d. a professional attitude toward them.
_____20. Rogers hypothesized that persons of tomorrow would

a. mistrust others.
b. be free of psychological conflict.
c. be open to their experience.
d. reach a high-level stage where continued change was
unnecessary.
_____21. In the Chicago studies, Rogers and his associates found that
a. clients who received client-centered therapy became fully
functioning.
b. empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence were
neither necessary nor sufficient.
c. clients who received client-centered therapy improved, but
they did not reach an "average" level of psychological
functioning.
d. clients who received cognitive behavior therapy showed no
gain.

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_____ 22. Which statement is most consistent with Rogers' concept of

humanity?
a. People have a natural tendency to move toward actualization.
b. People move inevitably toward actualization.
c. People move inevitably toward self-actualization.
d. People are free to become what they will.
Short Answer
1. Compare Rogers' concepts of the formative tendency and the

actualizing tendency.
2. Discuss Rogers' concept of self-actualization.

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3. Define conditions of worth.
4. List and briefly explain the "necessary and sufficient" conditions for
psychological growth.

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5. Define incongruence and discuss how a person might become

incongruent.
6. Discuss implications for the future if Rogers' view of the person of

tomorrow is realized.

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Answers
Fill-in-the-Blanks True-False Multiple Choice

1. minister 1. F 1. c
2. client-centered 2. T 2. a
3. formative 3. F 3. b
4. actualization 4. T 4. d
5. congruence 5. T 5. d
6. organismic 6. T 6. c
7. ideal 7. T 7. a
8. self-concept 8. T 8. d
9. incongruence 9. T 9. b
10. distort 10. F 10. d
11. self-regard 11. T 11. d
12. conditions 12. T 12. a
13. maintenance 13. T 13. b
14. enhancement 14. F 14. d
15. vulnerable 15. F 15. c
16. congruent 16. T 16. c
17. positive regard 17. F 17. a
18. empathy 18. T 18. b

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19. existential 19. T 19. b

20. control (freedom) 20. F 20. c
21. c
22. a

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Chapter 10 Rogers: Person-Centered Theory

After reading Chapter10, you should be able to:

1. Identify the formative and actualizing tendencies.

2. Discuss Rogers' concept of self and its development.

3. State the basic needs of individuals according to person-centered

4. Distinguish among self, self-actualization, self-concept, and ideal

5. List and describe Rogers' necessary and sufficient conditions for

6. Discuss the concept of the person of tomorrow and its implications

7. Discuss Rogers' philosophy of science.

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

8. Discuss the methods, procedures, and results of Rogers' research on

9. Discuss research on Rogers' facilitative conditions in situations

10. Critique Rogers' person-centered theory on the six criteria of a useful

I. Overview of Rogers's Person-Centered Theory

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

California, where he helped found the Center for Studies of the

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

begins to receive positive regard from another person, that is, to be

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

between organismic experience and self-concept, whereas threat is

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

awareness and by the ability and willingness to openly express

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

narrows and as a consequence, clients experience less

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

Because they would be able to accurately symbolize all their

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

A. Self-Ideal, Congruence, and Mental Health:

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

with their real self may turn to unhealthy behaviors

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

1. Rogers wanted to be a ______________________ after he graduated

2. Rogers's system of therapy is called ______________________, and

3. The ______________________ tendency suggests that all matter

4. The ______________________ tendency suggests that people tend

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

5. A state of ________________________ exists when the organismic

7. Rogers believed that each of us has an _____________________

8. Discrepancies between the _________________________ and the

9. A discrepancy between self-concept and organismic experiences is

10. People often deny or ____________________ both positive and

11. All of us, Rogers said, have a need for ______________________,

12. We experience ______________________ of worth whenever a

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

13. The need for _______________________ would include the need

14. The need for ________________________ includes the need to

15. The first condition for therapeutic growth is that a

16. A _____________________ person is one whose organismic

17. Unconditional ____________________________ exists when the

18. A state of ______________________ exists when therapists

19. According to Rogers, _____________________ living is the

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

_____ 2. Rogers's theory of personality grew out of his experiences as a

______3. Rogers' approach to psychotherapy is most accurately called

______4. As a schoolboy, Rogers became interested in scientific

Feist, Theories of Personality, 8e Student Study

______6. According to Rogers, all living organisms possess the

______7. Once the self-concept is formed, change becomes difficult.

______8. Self-actualization is a subsystem of the actualizing tendency.

______9. In Rogerian theory, the actualizing tendency refers to the