Critically Evaluate Person-Centred Counselling and Its Limitations

This essay provides a comprehensive evaluation of person-centred counselling, a humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers. It delves into the core principles of the therapy, including congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic understanding, and how these elements facilitate self-expression, self-awareness, and self-development in clients. The essay explores the benefits of this approach, such as creating a safe space for clients to express themselves and fostering self-understanding, while also acknowledging its limitations, including the time-consuming nature of the process and potential challenges in establishing trust. Furthermore, the essay discusses criticisms of the approach, offering a balanced perspective on its effectiveness and applicability in various contexts. It also addresses the need for the counselor to establish a good relationship with the patient and the need for the patient to actively work on their issues.

CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE
PRACTICAL USE OF PERSON-
CENTRED COUNSELLING AND
ITS LIMITATIONS AS SUGGESTED
BY CRITICS OF THE APPROACH

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

·INTRODUCTION
Person-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which
individuals perceive themselves consciously. This reports highlights the history of Person
centered counselling concept with the help of the information gather from different author and
critics. After that the report goes on to explain The concept of Person centered Counselloing and
the different benefitt associated with the Person centered counselling whern using the same in
the practical and real life. After that the report goes on to see the different limitation which is
linked with the Person centered councelling when appling the same on day to day practical life.
·MAIN BODY
Person-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which
individuals perceive themselves consciously, rather than how a counsellor can interpret their
unconscious thoughts or ideas. Person centered Counselling was proposed by Carl Rogesrs in the
year 1950s with a thought that theraspy can be simpler and more optimistic as compare to
psychodynamic and behavioural approach. This approach was based on the basis that the human
are the one who are the who has to understand by their oiwn to get a good tretament to the
problem from which they are suffering from (Chan, and Thomas, 2015).
Rogers generally staretd this by calling his technique non-directive therapy. While the goal
behind it was that it is non-directive as possible, he eventually realized that therapists guide
clients even in subtle ways. Roger was having the opinion that the client used to look for the
therapiest for the sake of some sort of the guidence and the guidelines which can help them in
gettinbg the sucess in the future. Eventually, the technique came to be known as client-centered
therapy or person-centered therapy. Today, Rogers' approach to therapy is often referred to by
either of these two names, but it is also frequently known simply as Rogerian therapy.
Person centered counselling is one of the most important therapy as tis therapy is very different
as compared to the other therapy. The biggest reason for the same is that this is the type of the
therapy in which client is repsponsible for improving their life as compare to the other therapy in
which thrapiest or doctor are responsible to improve the life of the patient (Diamond-Smith,
Warnock, and Sudhinaraset, 2018). Another difference between Person cetered counselling and
other therapy is that in which person or the patient decides by them only what is wrong and what
should be done to improve the same. At the same time in the other therapy doctor or therapiest
used to identify the issue which is faced by the company and on the basis of that therapiest used
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to apply different technique or treatment to improve the same of the client or patient. Person-
centred counselling is generally based on the three pronocple of the Carl Rogesrs which specify
the attitude of therapiest to the client. Reason which generally drive the patient to have a person
centered counselling is the depression and the stress As at the time of dipression and stress
person does not feel joy in leaving the life as they have experinced something unconditional
which they were not expecting in the past but due to that they are not able to comeout of the
effect which has been incured by the incident on the life of the patient (Gilbert, 2016).This the
reason they used to take the help of the person centered therapy so that they are able to self-
expression, self-awareness, self-development and a greater understanding of self this help the
person in improving the motivation and the confidence level
The therapist is congruent with the client
This principle explaon that the concelloe need to make sure tha the client which they are
teaching or the one whom they are providing therapy need to be feel the experince by their own
as Roger believe that the person or the client is the one who has to realize by their own to get a
maximum return of the treatment which has been provided by the therapy. Congruence geneally
means a genuineness. As the synonium of the word suggest councelor need to be geniune toward
the client This will help the concelor in building a good trust factor among the patient which will
eventually help the concelor in getting the best out of the patient and also getting the best
informatioon availabel in the market.
The therapist provides the client with unconditional positive regard
It is the next principle which beleoves that the people which has to grow to fullfill their potential
it is vey impoetant that they used to value themself as they are very important to themself. This
is generally known as a deep and genuine carring of the client. In simple word this principle is
based on the statement that the therapiest has to accept the client as they are in the real. So that
the therapiest is able to positive attitude toward the patient or the client (Haberler, 2017).
The therapist shows empathetic understanding to the client
It is the another principle which emphases that the tutor or the doctor has to understand the
feeling of the client which thae are treating it will help them in building trhe bond with the client
which will eventually help the in understanding the patient in the better way. This refers to the
therapist's ability to understand sensitively and accurately the client's experience and feelings in
the here-and-now.
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Their are many benefit of Person centered counselling which use to be offered to the patient but
at the same time their are many negative effecdt of the same which tempt the patient to overlook
the Person centered counselling.
The biggest benefit which used to be brought by the Person centered conselling is that it helps
the patient in expressing themself which help them in knowing what is the issue which is letting
them down in their real life. Generally it provides all the petienbt a space where they can express
the concern and different problems to achieve the clariety which they are looking. Generally
pattient is able to express himself as this approach is a non directive method through which the
therapiest used top provide the counselling to the person or the patient. This help the patient in
describing the feeling of themself in front of the consellor as they provide the oppourtunity for
to the patient that they can freely explain all the thing which they are facing as this approach
beleive that talking is the best way to solve the issue which is faced by the patient. It is not that
easy task to be performed by the consellor as it get difficult for th counselor to make a
environment where patient feel free to explain all the issue which is faced by the patient as
generally the patient which used tocome for the person centerd conselling is not in good mental
situation to build the bond with someone so it is the role of the consellor to make a environment
in which patient feel free to explain every issue which is faced by him in the pratical life
(Herlitz, and et.al., 2016). If consellor is not able to make such a situation it may create
uncertaininty among the two which will ceratinly result in more dipression for the patient. This
is one of the biggest drawback of the person centerd counselling.
The another big benefit or can be said as the purpose of the person centred conselling is that it
forces the patient to think in the present and what is going in their life in the present and too
forgot what has been their in the life in the past and what they are looking to achieve in the
future. As this is believes that the person who is in the present is in the right frame of the
mindset to do any thing in Practical. Therapiest generally used too tempt trhe patient to forgot
about the past by making them feel like a freind and asking them different question which divert
the interest of the patient from the situation which is pushing them in stress and also help the
patient in feeling them that living in today is the best way to dealt with the different situation
which is tempting them to not forgot the past. At the same time this also proves very negative
for the patient as if customer try to forgot the past and if suddenly some issue used to arrise
which help them in memorising the past it generally broke the patient again and after that it
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proves as one of the toughest task for the doctor to bring the patient back on the track of
improving. As everytime any such case used to arrise it therapiest has to start the counselling
from the begining point itself. This is the another big drawback of the Person centered
counselling as it consumes a lot of time to give a result as compare to the other counselling
method. Another reason of this method used to consume this much of the time is that it takes the
effort from the patient side to realize and make the corrective action to overcome issue whchi is
very difficult task for the patient who is suffering from the diperesion and stress and this is
eventually consumes a great amount of the time for the consellor to give a conselling in the
person centered approach.
Another big positive of this type of the therapy is that it gives the value and the repect to the
client which is expected by the client as conselor always try to make the environemnt in such a
way that the patient does not feel short hearted to perform any activity and feel free to express
what ever which is going in the mind of the patient. It generally gives a feeling to the patient that
they are the one who is very improtant for the consellor who is teaching them. As this therapy
used to roam around the person who is teaching it is very improtant for the conselor to get the
trust of the patient and by passing on the same conselor is able to do it for some extent. It
generally helps the patient also as patient feel it free to explain the feeling which is very
improtant for the patient who is getting treatment unders the person center approach. It also help
the conselor in getting the information about the patient and on the basis of that conselor used to
use the different techique to over come the issue which is faced by the patient. At the same time
it proves as a difficult for the conselor tro give a councelling in this encironbment as it was
difficult for the conselor to understand the thing which will pass on the respect to the patient and
if concelor is not able to pass on the message in the wrong way then it get very difficult for the
concelor to improve the same at it eventually affect the mentallity of the human being in more
negative way which is very harmfull for the health of the patient (.Marwick, 2018).
Another benefit which is brought by the Person centred counselling is that it encourages self-
expression, self-awareness, self-development and a greater understanding of self this help the
person in improving the motivation and the confidence level to some extend which helps the
patient in understanding the importance of life. As in the report it has been found that at the time
of depressed and under confidence situation person always feel that their is no point in leaving
the life as they are not able to find out the thing which used to motivate them or bring the joy in
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their life. As person centered counselling used to increase self-expression, self-awareness, self-
development and a greater understanding of self which help them in understanding the thing
which can provide them the joy. At the same time it also affect the physical health of the patient
as councelling always look to improve the mentall health of the patient and overlook the
physical health of the patient as this conselling used to give the training at some room or the
conference which eventually decrease a room of the practical practice which eventually affect
the physical health of the patient. As in the report it was found the person who is suffering from
the depression or the stress always affects the physical helth also. So it is very improtant for all
the patient to maintain the physical but it is the aspect which is not covered by this type of the
approach. So it is one of the biggest drawback which was found in this type of the approach of
the counselling.
After going through the critical evalustaion it can be summarized that their are many benefit and
disbenefit of Person centered councelling but after going through the both it can be said that the
positive element of the of the councelling is much better to overcome the issue which is offered
by the councelling. It has been also summarized that the biggest reason which used to drive the
person to take the usage of the councelling is at the time when they feel short hearted or at the
time of the depression and the stress (McNally and et.al., 2015). It has been also summarized
that the person centered theory used to lie on the three principle which was possessed by the
Roger. The therapist is congruent with the client, The therapist provides the client with
unconditional positive regard and The therapist shows empathetic understanding to the client
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·CONCLUSION
Person Centred Counselling is an extremely useful technique that can be used to counsel, treat
and give medication to people suffering from a various disease particularly in context of
depression and stress where patients can even be cured by the counselling that they receive. In
the present report, the history and origin of person centred counselling technique has been
evaluated and its effectiveness has been discussed. Further, in this report, the benefits and
drawbacks have been discussed in this report and the utilization of the technique of person
centred counselling in curing depression and stress has also been evaluated in the report. Lastly,
a critical analysis has been done in this report on depression and stress and the use of person
centred counselling technique as a cure.
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