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| innate tendency in all humans to maintain and enhance themselves |
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| results when a person perceives or subceives an experience as being incompatible with his or her self-structure and its introjected conditions of worth |
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| characterizes the events in one's experience that have been symbolized and therefore have entered consciousness |
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| description of Roger's second approach to therapy in which the therapist makes an active effort to understand the client's subjective reality |
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| conditions under which an incongruent person will experience positive regard |
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| effort to change a threatening experience through distortion or denial |
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| refusal to allow threatening experiences to enter awareness |
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| modification of a threatening experience so it is no longer threatening |
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| all the events of which a person could be aware at any given moment |
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| third stage in the evolution of Roger's approach to therapy in which the feelings of the therapist become as important as the feelings of the client |
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| term that Rogers thought was better than teacher because it suggest someone who is helpful and uncritical and who will provide the freedom that is necessary for learning to take place |
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| when a person is living in accordance with his/her organismic valuing process, rather than conditions of worth, the defenses of denial and distortion are no longer necessary |
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| client's description of how he/she would like to be |
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| statements chosen by a client as best describing the person he/she would most like to be. part of the Q-sort technique |
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| exists when a person is no longer using the organismic valuing process as a means of evaluating experiences. the person, under these conditions, is no longer acting honestly towards his/her self-experiences |
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| internal frame of reference |
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| subjective reality, or phenomenological field, accord to which a person lives his/her life |
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| conditions of worth that are internalized and become the basis for one's self-regard |
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| conditions of worth that are internalized and become the basis for one's self-regard |
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| need to receive warmth, sympathy, care, respect, and acceptance from the relevant people in one's life |
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| need a person develops to feel positively about himself/herself |
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| description of Rogers's first approach to therapy in which the emphasis was on the client's ability to solve his/her problems |
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| one of the chief characteristics of fully functioning person |
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| organismic valuing process |
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| frame of reference that allows an individual to know if his/her experiences are in accordance with his/her actualizing tendency. those experiences that maintain or enhance the person are in accordance with this process; other experiences are not |
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| final stage in Rogers's thinking in which the emphasis was on understanding th total person, not on understanding the person merely as a client |
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| that portion of experience of which an individual is aware. it is this subjective reality, rather than physical reality, that directs a person's behavior |
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| person's private, subjective perception or interpretation of objective reality |
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| to Rogers, an experience designed to help an incongruent person become congruent |
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| method Rogers used to determine how a client's self-image changed as a function of therapy |
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| client's description of how he/she currently views himself/herself |
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| debate held in 1955 between Rogers and Skinner over how best to use the principles discovered by the behavioral sciences |
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| close relationship with individuals other than one's spouse |
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| that portion of the phenomenological field that becomes differentiated because of experiences involving terms such as I, me, and not mine |
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| statements chosen by a client as best describing the person as he or she actually is at the moment. part of the Q-sort technique. |
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| detection of an experience before it enters full awareness |
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| process by which an event enters an individual's awareness |
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| term that Rogers believed was unfortunate because it connotes an authoritarian figure who dispenses information to passive students |
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| anything that is thought to be incompatible with one's self-structure |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| experience of positive regard without conditions of worth. in other words, positive regard is not contingent on certain acts or thoughts |
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