The understanding of the client's internal frame of reference by the therapist is viewed as the most optimal way for the client to
experience unconditional positive regard; and (c) unconditional positive regard being viewed as the primary change agent in which the client's needs for positive regard and positive self regard are met and the actualizing tendency of the individual is promoted.
The reconceptualization entails (a) genuineness being viewed as a therapist state of readiness that enables the therapist to better experience the client with empathic understanding of the client's internal frame of reference and to
experience unconditional positive regard towards the client; (b) empathic understanding being viewed as the action state of the therapist in which the client is accepted as he or she is at any given moment.
Not exact matches
Karleen went into some depth, including case studies and a role play, to illustrate what breastfeeding counselling is and is not, covering: the theoretical foundations of counselling practice (
unconditional positive regard, congruence, creating emotional safety), the theoretical foundations of counselling process (empathetic understanding, understanding the mother's
experience and validating, accepting and valuing that
experience), key counselling skills, exploratory questions, clarifying questions, offering information not instruction, offering appropriate reassurance and then offering suggestions and helping to make a plan.
A therapist who embodies Self and feels
unconditional positive regard in the face of whatever the person in treatment may be
experiencing nurtures the therapeutic relationship.
In other words, we need to have empathy and
unconditional positive regard for whatever we are
experiencing inside.
She recognizes that each individual brings unique
experiences and therefore approaches each person's treatment with dignity,
unconditional positive regard and empathy.
According human therapist Carl Rogers (the founder of the concept the
unconditional positive regard, many people's need to seek constant approval and admiration stems from their childhood
experiences with their parents.
According to Carl Rogers, the humanist therapist who coined the concept of the
unconditional positive regard, many people's need to seek constant approval and admiration stems from their childhood
experiences with their parents.
Abraham Maslow, with his concept of peak
experiences and self actualization, and Carl Rogers, who stressed the importance of
unconditional positive regard, were proponents of this view.