Humanistic counseling models. Critical analysis. /last part/

The main therapeutic factors: - presence of psychological contact. The client is in a state of mismatch with his / her actual experiences and his / her I concept. Psychotherapist to be harmonious and integrated. An unconditional positive attitude towards the client - accepting it as it is, with warmth and concern, without evaluation or criticism; - the psychotherapist has an empathic attitude towards the client and gives it to him.

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Adhering to these requirements ensures that the client is transformed into a congruent individual, therapist himself. Therapies are targeted at the client rather than the problem. That is why the therapist is not looking for or formulating problems, as well as options for solving them. Therapy focuses on the emotional, not the intellectual, beginning. Counseling Techniques: A basic form of individual client-centric therapy is a therapeutic interview with an hour-and-a-half duration, and a frequency once a week. The customer chooses a topic of conversation himself. His maintenance is done with verbal and non-verbal means.

Basically, the following are also used: - reflecting feelings where the therapist is a mirror; - repeating individual keywords or phrases; - Summary of what the customer says; metaphors; - empathic answers. Role of the consultant. The counselor has to give up playing the roles and create a psychological climate in which the client will give up protection. Here the consultant must be "real". Results. The goal of psychotherapy is to remove obstacles to self-actualization and to create conditions for personal growth. The main characteristics of an adequate, healthy personality: openness to experiences - the presence of an I-concept. allowing perception of experience without worrying and dropping the need for protection; trust in the body - the person is guided by his / her own judgments, based on his / her inner conviction of regularity; creativity ; personal responsibility for their self-actualization; self-esteem and unconditional self-acceptance; ability of good relations with others; ethics in life - respecting the right of others to meet their needs.

Rogers client-centered therapy has played a significant role in the development of psychotherapy. Although today it is not accepted by most therapists as the primary one, it is used by the integratively and eclectically oriented. There are doubts about its applicability to pronounced mental symptoms, and it has been proved inappropriate for non-voluntary clients, those with communicative difficulties and low intellect. Today, this therapy is not accepted by most therapists. It is used by integratively-eclectically oriented. There are some limitations and theoretical doubts about efficiency.