As a counseling psychology student, we are offered
many approaches to psychotherapy. Every single therapy has its own
characteristics and specialties which are highly correlated to the journey of
life of the founder. We cannot deny that personality and life experience
contributes to the theory and technique in psychotherapy. For example, Victor
Frankl’s experience in Nazi concentration camps has leads him to develop
logotherapy.
At the very first time I read psychoanalyst and behaviorist techniques in Corey’s book, Theory and
Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, I got overwhelmed because the
list of technique was so long. Of course, it is impossible to be understood in
only one time reading. Moreover, I am not a person who like dependant on the
technique. In my opinion overly being stick to the technique make us become
stiff whereas psychotherapy is not like engineering, it is an art to facing and
dealing with human beings.
After finishing psychoanalysis and behaviorism, I
moved to other approach named person-centered therapy by Carl Rogers. I began
with a
brief biography of Rogers and got
interested in his history of life. It says that his family atmosphere
characterized by close and warm relationships but also by strict religious
standards. Rogers also was an introverted person, and he spent a lot of time
reading and engaging in imaginative activity and reflection. When I was read
this section, I realize that I have some similarity with him.
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Then my
interest in person-centered therapy continues to the therapeutic process.
Rogers is not a psychologist who emphasize the techniques during the
therapeutic process. In contrast, he makes the client be psychologist itself.
Rogers believes that client is the person who most understands himself. It
means they know their problems as well. Rogers also being convinced that client
has the capacity to solve their problem.
So what is
the therapist roles? As Rogers said, therapist needs three attributes to create a
growth-promoting climate in
which individuals can move forward and become what they are capable
of becoming: (1) congruence (genuineness,
or realness), (2) unconditional positive regard (acceptance and caring), and (3) accurate empathic understanding.
According to Rogers, if therapists communicate these attitudes, those being helped will become less
defensive and more open
to themselves and their world, and they will behave in prosocial
and constructive ways.
In my
perspective, these attributes make therapeutic process become less stressful,
for both client and therapist. It also makes therapist pay his full attention
to the client instead of the techniques. I myself like this approach because it
places the human in their nature as a human being, not like an animal.
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