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| what are the components of the phenomenological theory of the self? |
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| humanism, phenomenology, and holism |
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| humans are essentially good and growth oriented |
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| focus on one's immediate conscious experience in determining reality: we react based on our subjective, private reality |
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| focus on the whole person |
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| what is the one master motive? |
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| to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism |
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| what is the 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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| what is the phenomenological reality? |
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| person's private, subjective perception or interpretation of objective reality |
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| all the events of which a person could be aware at any given moment |
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| characterizes the events in one's experience that have been symbolized and therefore have entered consciousness |
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| explain the emergence of the self |
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at first, infants don't distinguish between events in their phenomenological field; gradually through experiences with verbal labels a portion of their phenomenological field becomes differentiated as the self. At this point, a person can reflect on him/herself as a distinct object of which he/she is aware
real sel: self as is -> ideal self: self as one should be |
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| receiving warmth, love, sympathy, care, respect, and acceptance from the relevant people in one's life. In other words, it is the feeling of being prized by those people who are most important to us |
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| what is an incongruent person? |
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| a person who no longer uses their organismic valuing process as a means of determining if their experiences are in accordance with their actualizing tendency |
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| conditions under which an incongruent person will experience positive regard |
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| what results when an experience threatens the existing self-structure? |
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| need a person develops to feel positively about himself/herself |
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| the detection of an experience before it enters full awareness |
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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's no longer threatening |
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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 of thoughts |
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| what is a congruent person? |
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| what are the characteristics of a fully functioning person? |
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| open to experience, essential living, and trust in oneself |
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| what were the phases of roger's psychotherapy? |
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| non-directive, client-centered, experiential, person-centered |
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| emphasizing clients' ability to solve their own problems |
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| focus on client's internal frame of reference |
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| therapist as free as the client to express feelings |
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| extending to many areas beyond the therapeutic process |
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| what are the conditions for positive growth? |
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| genuineness, acceptance, and empathy |
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| transparency, realness, or congruence |
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| caring or prizing (unconditional positive regard) |
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| communicated through sensitive, active listening and reflective remarks |
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| what are typical responses to emotional communication? |
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| what type of response captures the underlying feeling and encourages further elaboration and exploration? |
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| what were rogers research emphases and methods? |
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| Content analysis of actual transcripts, rating scales monitor the progress and change of therapy, and the Q-Sort Technique |
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| method rogers used to determine how a client's self-image changed as a function of a therapy. Closer to 1 the stronger the relationship; have 100 cards sorted into 9. |
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| overly simplistic and optimistic approach, failure to credit those who have influenced his theory, and important aspects of personality ignored or denied |
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| alternative/positive view of humans, new form of therapy, and applied value |
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