Author Question: In Rogers's approach to therapy, the therapist provides: a. unconditional positive regard. c. ... (Read 264 times)

xclash · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

In Rogers's approach to therapy, the therapist provides:

a. unconditional positive regard.
c. conditions of worth.
b. good advice.
d. judgments about behavior.

Question 2

Rogers said it is difficult for a therapist to know a client's experiential world completely, because

a. no form of therapy is infallible.
b. communication is never perfect.
c. non-conscious experiences are inaccessible.
d. all of these are correct.

Li Jun · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
FEEDBACK: The only predetermined belief of the person-centered therapist is the client's inherent value and worth. The therapist gives them unconditional positive regard and offers no judgments about their behavior or advice on how to behave.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Although Rogers considered person-centered therapy the only worthwhile approach to personality assessment, he realized that it was not infallible. By focusing on subjective experiences, the therapist learns only about those events the client consciously expresses. The danger in trying to infer too much about non-conscious experiences is that the inferences the therapist draws may represent the therapist's own projections more than the client's actual experiences. Besides, because all forms of communication are imperfect, the therapist necessarily will see the client's world of experience imperfectly and incompletely.