Carl Rogers

Client-Centered Therapy
Carl Rogers

Professional interest in psychotherapy is in all likelihood the most rapid growing area in the social sciences today.   Person- Centered Therapy is a form is talk-psychotherapy developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s.   It is one of the most widely used models in mental health and psychotherapy. Carl Rogers approaches client with a different approach than most.   He focuses on a therapeutic relationship instead of treating any illnesses.   Carl Rogers created a comfortable, non-judgmental environment by expressing kindness, genuine, empathy, and constant positive regard towards the client. What does this do?   Eventually it aids the clients to find their own solutions for their problems.
In Roger’s client-centered therapy, the therapist must show interest, be warm, helpful, understanding and accepting of the client. Carl Rogers states that during the first few years of his professional career he would ask himself “how can I treat, or cure, or change this person?” (On becoming a person 32).   Eventually he would transform the approaching question to “how can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?” (On becoming a person 32).   The concept of all focus zooming in on clients is Carl Roger’s way to help the client to grow so that they can cope with problems in an incorporated way.   As a client-centered therapist; the characteristic of development, of reformulation, of change, can be vital and appears to be one of its most outstanding qualities.
It must take time, patience, and especially lots of compassion; in order to use the approach of Carl Rogers.   The goal of the therapists is to “aim directly toward the greater independence and integration of the individual rather than hoping that such results will accrue if the counselor assist in solving the problem…aim is not solve one particular problem, but to assist the individual to grow, so that he can cope with the present...