Carl RogersPerson-Centered Theory

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Matakuliah : L0194 – Psikologi KepribadianTahun : 2010

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Carl Ransom Rogers

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Basic Assumptions• Formative tendency

– From simpler to more complex forms

• Actualizing tendency– See move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials

• Need for maintenance, is expressed in people’s desire to protect ther current, comfortable self concept

• Need for enhancement, is to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth

• Human actualization tendency is realized only under certain conditions: involve with person who had emphaty, congruent, unconditional positive regards opportunity to self actualization

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• Self awareness as I/ Me• Self Actualization tendency to actualize the self

as perceived in awareness • Self concept• The ideal self• Incongruence

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Awareness

• Experiences that ignored or denied

• Woman walking down a busy street

• Mother who had no willing to have children

• Accurately symbolize the experience that consistent

with their self concept

• The pianist

• Experiences that are perceived in distorted form , so it

can be assimilated into our existing self concept

• The pianist with his distrusted competitor and

trusted rival

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Becoming a person

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Defense

• Defensiveness the protection of self concept against anxiety and threat by denial or distortion of experiences inconsistent with it (Rogers, 1959)

– Distortion misinterpret an experiences in order to fit it into some aspects of our self concept

• Perceive experience in awareness, but fail to understand its true meaning

– Denial refuse perceive an experiences in awareness or keeping it ro reach symbolization

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Disorganization

• Cause: discrepancy between people’s organismic

experience and their view of self too obvious or

occurs too suddenly to be denied or distorted

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Client-Centered Therapy

• Condition

• Process

• Outcomes

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Characteristic healthy person

• More adaptable

• Open to their experiences

• Trust in their organismic selves

• Live fully in moment existential living

• Harmonious relations with others

• More integrated

• Basic trust of human nature

• Enjoy a greater richness in life