CARL RANSOM ROGERS

(1902 – 1987)
 Born on January 8, 1902
 Received his Bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin in 1924.
 Received his Master’s degree from Columbia University in 1928
 Received his Ph.D. in Psychotherapy from Columbia University in 1931
 Award for “Distinguish Scientific Contribution” by American Psychological
Association in 1956
 Award for “Distinguish Professional Contributions to Psychology” by the
APA in 192
 Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with National
Intergroup Conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland
 As humanistic thinker he believe that people are fundamentally good
 Wrote sixteen books and many articles about his theories
 Ranked #6 of Top Psychologist
 Was a psychology professor at Ohio State University and University of
Chicago
 Died on February 4, 1987 at the age 85
 A Counselling Technique
(developed during 1940’s and 1950’s)

Also known as Client-

Centered Therapy or Rogerian
Therapy is an approach to
counselling that requires the
client to take an active role in
his/her treatment with therapist
being nondirective and
supportive
 To resolve the incongruence of the clients
to help them able and be themselves
 Rogers followed very similar to belief’s of Maslow
 Believed that individuals could grow
 In order to grow, the environment needs to provide
genuineness, acceptance, and empathy
 Once a person was able to self-actualize. Rogers
would refer to them as a fully functioning person.

Open to
experience

Existential Five (5) characteristics of

Fulfilled life
living
FULLY FUNCTIONING
PERSON

Trust
Creativity
feelings
 Defined as “the organized consistent set of perceptions
and beliefs about oneself”.
 The self is our inner personality
 Influenced by experiences through life
 Self-concept is influenced by childhood experiences and
the evaluation of others
 Self-concept has three components
 Self Worth
 Self Image
 Ideal Self
 Self Worth – also known as self-esteem

 Self -Image – How we see ourselves

 Self Concept – the person we would like to be

 Therapist Client Psychological Contact
 Client Congruence
 Therapist Congruence
 Therapist Unconditional positive regard
 Therapist emphatic understanding
 Client perception
 Increase the independence and integration of
the client
 Focus on the person, not the problem
 Create the conditions necessary for positive
growth
 Develop openness, trust in themselves,
internal source of evaluation, and willingness
to continue growing
 Client talk about part of self
 Client describes feelings but do not recognize
them
 Client talks about self as an object in terms of
past experiences
 Clients accept own feelings
 Client expresses feelings freely
 Clients expresses feelings in present
 Clients trust new experiences and relates to
others openly
 Listening

Responding Accepting

Therapy
Techniques

Understanding Respecting
 Clients have resources for positive movement
 Client has capacity to resolve life problems
without interpretation and direction from
therapist
 Fully experience the present moment
 Learn to accept oneself
 Decide on ways to change
 Views mental health as a congruence between
what one wants to become and what one
actually is.
 Individual and group counselling
 Student-centered teaching and learning
 Anxiety disorders, alcoholism, psychosomatic
problems, agoraphobia, interpersonal
difficulties, depression, cancer, personality
disorders
 Well suited for early phases of crisis
intervention
 Administration and management and system
and institutions