Author Question: What did Rogers say about therapist congruence? a. It is important for the counselor to be ... (Read 179 times)

itsmyluck · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

What did Rogers say about therapist congruence?

a. It is important for the counselor to be totally open with the client.
b. The counselor must present him or herself as a blank slate.
c. Some of the counselors thoughts simply arent useful in the therapy process, so the counselor uses judgment about which thoughts to verbalize to the client.
d. Because the relationship with the client is so important, the therapist keeps to him or herself anything that might hurt the clients feelings.
e. It is particularly easy to share with children only what you want them to know as they are not so sophisticated as to sense when you are saying something that is untrue.

Question 2

According to Rogers, a congruent therapist is one

a. whose actions are not at odds with his or her feelings and thoughts.
b. who presents as empathic at all times.
c. whose expression reflects what the client is presenting.
d. who gets a client to do what the counselor thinks he or she should be doing.
e. who agrees with the client about an important issue.