Client Centred Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

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I think a *casual* reader would probably prefer to start with his other work, but anyone learning about or working in PCT itself really needs to read and understand this psychological classic. A wealth of information from past to present with all the underpinnings that are of course still used today within this psychotherapy form.

I found the second half of the book more challenging since it provided examples of client-centered techniques in situations that did not apply to areas in which I work, but there were some chapters that I found completely engaging and helpful. The client doesn't leave the therapeutic process with fixed answers, one could say that they feel more lost after therapy than before, but therapy has equipped him with the ability to navigate the confusion of his inner contradictions.It's this part of truly understanding the self that is necessary to understand what is going on in front of us or in our own heads. Rogers has endeavored to bring the realities of the counseling session – the anxiety, the despair, the hope, and the satisfaction – into the text.

If I had some of the bricks for an edifice of a person-centred way of being, I think this provides the mortar. It is once they accept all manners of gradient in assessing situations and see themselves as the assessors and judges of all things good and bad with no one thing actually possessing "good" or "bad" elements free from relative assessment that the client moves toward a more self-aware level of relation to the world around them. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Moreover, great consideration is given to the uniqueness of the relationship between client and therapist, culminating in the personal experiences of both.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Rogers is particularly sharp and expressively clear in some of his approaches concerning therapy and philosophy of the therapeutic relationship. I read Roger's CCT in such a context, my second exposure to him, the first having been in an earlier EdPsych class. Through his thought provoking statements this book helped me reflect on my practice and hopefully helped me become a better counsellor.

The major stumbling blocks of this sort appear to be his concepts of "self" and "self-actualization. It is not just a formulation of a theory, but (following indications of the full title) is an overview of practice and application of client-centered therapy overall.It's probably going to be hard to formulate my thoughts on this material in a consistent and progressive manner.