Not exact matches
On the one hand I want to be faithful to all the good teaching I've had about listening, about empathy, and about the «
unconditional positive regard» with
which I am to receive the person seeking counsel.
A study reported by Carl R. Rogers points to three components
which are a part of what I am describing as the therapeutic attitude: Congruence, empathic understanding, and
unconditional positive regard.
Unconditional positive regard for the client creates a safe space in
which the wounded parts of the self can emerge and be transformed.As a long time meditator, I love sharing Mindfulness Meditation techniques with my clients.
Taking the view that every individual has the internal resources they need for growth, person - centred counselling aims to provide three «core conditions» (
unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence)
which help that growth to occur.
I provide a safe, supportive space, in
which my clients can explore the issues and challenges they face, with
unconditional positive regard.
«I provide «client centered» therapy
which means facilitating your self - actualization (your innate ability toward growth and fulfillment), through acceptance (
unconditional positive regard), genuineness, empathic understanding.
This gets facilitated by the therapist's presence and acceptance of the client at all times, and especially by the concept of
unconditional positive regard,
which asserts the client's acceptability, though they have both good and bad qualities.
I believe in
unconditional positive regard,
which is the basic acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person says or does.
The concept of
unconditional positive regard, initially developed by Carl Rogers and used in person - centered (Rogerian) therapy, holds that providing a relationship in
which one is truly accepted, without any conditions or judgment, allows healing to occur, in most cases.
Also, I approach therapy from a humanistic perspective,
which means that I am genuinely interested in providing an empathetic session for the client, one full of respect, understanding, patience, kindness and
unconditional,
positive regard.
These unexpected blessings have continued to emerge from our senior volunteers with reports of improved communication skills with friends / family, the excitement of learning something new, a renewed purpose in life, satisfaction of helping others, increase in personal confidence, and the joy and healing
which accompanies the
unconditional positive regard the children gave to them.
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.
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.