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This 25 page paper examines Carl Rogers' concepts, their limitations and some of the ways in which they can be applied to working with adolescents. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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a sort of icily calm and removed expert into a participant in the healing process. This paper examines Rogers concepts, their limitations and some of the ways in which
they can be applied to working with adolescents. Rogers Own Words We begin with Rogers own description of client-centered therapy, which he says has three distinctive elements (Rogers 1946).
The first is the "predictable process of client-centered therapy," meaning that its possible to "state with some exactness the conditions which must be met in order to initiate and
carry through this releasing therapeutic experience" (Rogers 1946, p. 415). The first condition is met if "the counselor operates on the principle that the individual is basically responsible for
himself, and is willing for the individual to keep that responsibility" (Rogers 1946, p. 415). The second is met if the counselor operates on the assumption that the client
wants to solve his problems; i.e., that he has "a strong drive to become mature, socially adjusted, independent, productive, and relies on this force, not on his own powers, for
therapeutic change (Rogers 1946, p. 415). The third condition is present if the counselor "creates a warm and permissive atmosphere in which the individual is free to bring out any
attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1946, p. 415). In this atmosphere the client may withhold or
express feelings, as he sees fit (Rogers 1946). The fourth condition refers to limits. It may be necessary for the therapist to set limits, but those limits
(which usually apply to children) are on behavior and not attitude (Rogers 1946). "The child may not be permitted to break a window or leave the room. But he
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