Psychology Personal Development activities

Running head: Psychology
Personal Development activities
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PSYCHOLOGY1
Question 1). Acknowledge and explore their attitudes, values and defences
and explore their potential impact upon the therapeutic relationship,
linking to theory, mainly focusing on the Person Centred Approach.
Admitting the main concepts related to psychology provided by Abraham Maslow,
Rogers said that each individual can achieve his/her goals, wishes, as well as desires in life. A
self-actualization is said to be occur while these goals. Central to the personality theory given
by Roger, it can be said that it is related to the self-concepts (Cooper et al. 2013). This can
be explained as "the consistent and organized set of different beliefs and perceptions about
oneself. Concentrating on the person cantered approach provided by Rogers, it can be said
that in a particular state of incongruence an individual enters into the person cantered
therapy. It comes under the role and responsibility of the therapists to reverse the particular
situation. As focus on the person’s subjective view of the world, it is also called client
cantered approach. In contrast to the other therapies, here the patient or client himself/herself
takes responsibility of improving his or her life (not the therapist). This also explained as a
deliberate change from both the behavioural as well as psychoanalysis therapies, in which the
patient is diagnosed and after that treated by a particular doctor (Nelson et al.2014,
pp.513). In addition, the client rationally and consciously decides for themselves what not
going well or what is wrong and what actions need to be taken for correcting it. The therapist
acts as a counsellor or a friend and listens as well as encourages the client on a higher level.
In contrast to the attachment theory (which explains having deep emotional bond that
connects two persons), the main intention of this theory is to enhance the feelings of self-
confidence, self-worth, self-motivation, and minimize the level of intolerance and
incongruence within the individuals. However, this approach proposed by Roger mainly
operates focusing on three major principles, which are discussed below;

PSYCHOLOGY2
1. It is necessary for the therapist to be congruent with the parson or client
2. The therapist will provide clients with several unconditional positive regard.
3. Therapist will behave like a counsellor or a friend with the client and will show
empathetic understanding to the patient.
As an essential part of this theory (that is the Person Centred Counselling), the author Carl
Rogers has suggested seven stages for showing the growth of a client and enhancement of his
or her self-development, these are as follows:
Stage 1: The client will show very resistant and defensive behaviour towards change
Stage 2: Client might become less or slightly rigid and may also discuss about other people or
any external events.
Stage 3: By avoiding the discussion of any present events, he/she may discuss about
himself/herself.
Stage 4: By expressing the deeper feelings or discussing about the personal feelings the client
can develop personal relationship with the counsellor (Csillik 2013, p.351).
Stage 5: The client can also their current emotions and feelings. It can also noticed that they
can highly rely on their own decision making capacity and can accept higher responsibility
for performing their own actions.
Stage 6: Clients can also show quick growth towards the congruence as well as start to
develop different unconditional positive regards for others. Activities in this stage can
identified as a signal, which explain the therapy is going to be end.
Stage 7: This is the last stage and it explains that the client has recovered successfully. He/she
is a self-actualised and fully functioning person, who shows positive and unconditional