Carl rogers childhood biography book

Childhood and Adolescence.

Carl Rogers is best known for devising Person-centred theory also known as client centred theory , which is influenced by humanistic theory. He paved the way for client led therapies. He also developed a rich vocabulary for understanding how human beings perceive the world. An internal locus of evaluation sees us trusting our organismic self.

Conversely, if we receive conditions of worth conditional love from others when we were young, we develop introjected values. As a result, we live our lives from an external locus of evaluation — in other words, being able to be happy only when we have the approval of others. Carl Rogers adopted humanistic theory into his person-centred therapeutic model.

Tudor and Merry , p. Thorne and Sanders , p. The three core conditions for this are empathy i. Although these are the best known, Rogers also proposed three further conditions required for effective therapy: therapist—client psychological contact i. Rogers , pp.

Carl Rogers was an important American psychologist and educator who along with Abraham Moslow founded the Humanistic Approach’ to psychology.

If these six conditions exist and continue over a period of time, this is sufficient. The process of constructive personality change will follow. Feltham and Dryden , p.