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This 5 page paper discusses client-centered therapy, which works by using the client's ability to heal himself. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the therapist, who was assume to be an expert who would listen and then advise the client. Today, the emphasis has shifted to what is called client-centered therapy. This paper
discusses client-centered therapy, which works by using the clients ability to heal himself. Discussion "Client-centered therapy" as a discipline is usually credited to Carol Rogers who developed it in the
1940s (Ryan). It is "non-directive" as opposed to "directive"-a "directive" therapy is one in which the therapist is involved in "asking questions, offering treatments, and making interpretations and diagnoses"
(Ryan). This therapy is posited on the necessity of the therapist "steering" the client in some way (Ryan). The alternative to the traditional treatment, in which the therapist is really
the center of the interaction, is "client-centered therapy." This discipline "was developed by Carl Rogers in the 40s and 50s [and] ... is a non-directive approach to therapy (Ryan). In
this type of therapy, the clients "get to keep control over the content and pace of the therapy," which makes it very attractive to many people (Ryan). The client-centered approach
works by allowing the client to bring whatever they need to, to the sessions; the "foundational belief of CCT is that people tend to move toward growth and healing, and
have the capacity to find their own answers" (Ryan). Progress occurs quickly in "an accepting and understanding climate, which the CC therapist seeks to provide above all else" (Ryan). What
a client-centered therapist actually does is as follows: "Listen and try to understand how things are from the clients point of view"; double check with the client to make sure
they have a correct understanding; "treat the client with the utmost respect and regard"; and finally, the therapist must be "self-aware, self-accepting, and [have] no mask between [himself] and the
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