Person-centred therapies
Understand the most tested and most misunderstood claim in the field.
Chapter 5Sessions 10/21–10/26
What you should be able to do afterwards
- 1State all six conditions, including the two that are usually forgotten
- 2Explain conditions of worth and incongruence
- 3Distinguish empathy as a technique from empathy as a condition
- 4Explain what the falsification of sufficiency does and does not establish
The reading
Rogers made his theory falsifiable and it was falsified — the conditions are not sufficient for all presentations. What survived is more important: empathy, positive regard and congruence are among the most robust therapist variables ever identified, and the sixth condition — that the client must perceive them — remains the most-forgotten and most consequential clause in the field.
What belongs to this unit
Questions to take away
For a seminar, a supervisor, or an argument with yourself.
- 1If the conditions are necessary but not sufficient, what exactly do they do?
- 2MI is person-centred method with a direction. Is that a betrayal of the model or its natural extension?
- 3How would you know whether a client perceived your regard, rather than whether you felt it?
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