This chapter presents an overview of Person-Centered Theory (PCT) conceptualized by Carl Rogers in the 1940s. This non-directive approach sought to release the driving force within us鈥攖o empower individuals to achieve their full potential and become self-actualized. PCTs three core therapeutic ...
The person-centered approach (PCA) is strongly related to systems theory: The core theoretical and explanatory principle—actualizing tendency—was coined by the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Goldstein. Moreover, in some of his late papers, Rogers stressed the relationship of PCA and interdisciplinary syste...
Lay psychological concepts, textbook definitions, and theoretical reviews of personality agree with this person-centered view of personality. In contrast, empirical research has treated personality mainly from a variable-centered perspective, focusing on individual differences in single personality traits. ...
The research questions are to what extent the PSY3 training conveys the person-centered theoretical framework, which psychotherapeutic skills are acquired by the participants and whether the par- ticipants attain an adequate personality development in accordance with the person-centered approach. The ...
Person-centered Therapy: In concrete terms, person-centered therapy was created as an innovative method to approach psychological conflicts in individuals. It was developed by psychologist Carl Rogers, who first called it client-centered therapy. Answer and Explana...
Person-Centered Therapy Person-Centered Therapy P-C Therapy Challenges… Directive & Psychoanalytic Approaches An approach of offering advice, suggestion, diagnosis, and interpretation A belief that clients need direct help in order to resolve their own problems A focus on problems instead of persons...
Affective super-traits and/or individual patterns: a variable-centered and a person-centered approach of primary emotional aspects of personality Theoretical approaches of personality structure are diverse. We examine the primary emotional aspects of personality as the correspondence of two mainstrea... ...
While learning goals need to be predefined at the curriculum and course level, it is the concrete course offering, the instructor or facilitator, the student colleagues and learning designs that are decisive in determining whether learning goals can truly be called ldquolearner-centered.rdquo In this...
This study examined the relationship between perfectionistic concerns (PC) and perfectionistic strivings (PS) with the subcomponents of emotional intelligence (EI) through a latent class person-centered approach. A sample of 1582 Ecuadorian adolescents (619 females) aged from 12 to 18 was employed....
Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) is a humanist approach to therapy in which the clients consciously take the lead, rather than the therapist.