Monday, April 4, 2011

Carl Rogers

1st of all, i must say that i really think his name sound like
& i wound be happy if they have some connection........



back to the topic, who is carl rogers (beside he have the same family name with kenny)?

Carl Rogers (1902–1987)

American psychologisthistory
contributed to fields of education, counseling, psychotherapy, peace, and conflict resolution
one of  founder of humanistic psychology
focused on demonstrating the psychological conditions for allowing open communication and empowering individuals to achieve their full potential.

Since we focus on humanistic theories, let see what is meant by it...

Humanism is a philosophical movement that emphasises the personal worth of the individual and the centrality of human values.  The focus of the humanistic perspective is on the self, which translates into "YOU", and "your" perception of "your" experiences. The Humanistic approach rests on the complex philosophical foundations of existentialism, and emphasizes the creative, spontaneous and active nature of human beings. This veiw argues that you are free to choose your own behavior, rather than reacting to environmental stimuli and reinforcers. This approach is  very optimistic and focusses on noble human capacity to overcome hardship and despair. Issues dealing with self-esteem, self-fulfillment, and needs are paramount. The major focus is to facilitate personal development. Two major theorists associated with this view are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.

Carl Rogers feels that each person operates from a unique frame of reference in terms of buliding Self Regard or their self concept. Self Concept is one's own belief about themselves. These beliefs stem, in part, from the notion of Unconditional Postive Regard and Conditional Positive Regard. Unconditional positive regard occurs when individuals, especially parents, demonstrate unconditional love. Conditioned positive regard is when that love seems to only come when certain condtions are met. Rogers theory states that psychologically healthy people enjoy life to the fullest, hence, they are seen as fully functioning people.

Abraham Maslow feels that indivduals have certain needs that must be met in an hierarchical fashion, from the lowest to highest. These include basic needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, achievement needs, and ultimately, Self-Actualization.
According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the needs must be achieved in order. For instance, one would be unable to fulfill their safety needs if their physiological needs have not been met.

based on:
http://wilderdom.com/personality/L10-2Humanistic.html
http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Theories/humanistic.html

more about humanistic theory by carl rogers: http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/iewhite/The%20Humanistic%20Theories%20of%20Carl%20Rogers.htm


Carl Rogers' Quates (that i like):

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others


“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”


I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.



The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change


The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination 
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."


"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me. Neither the Bible nor the prophets -- neither Freud nor research --neither the revelations of God nor man -- can take precedence over my own direct experience. My experience is not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the basis of authority because it can always be checked in new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or fallibility is always open to correction."


"A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new."


With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

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