Nondirective Counseling Interventions with Schizophrenics

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1147-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Gerwood
Keyword(s):  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Unconditional Positive Regard ◽  
Counseling Interventions ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Nondirective Counseling ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenic ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Counseling interventions with paranoid schizophrenics can be daunting. While chemical, directive, and behavioral controls often are considered important, nondirective counseling techniques used by the therapeutic staff may help schizophrenic patients explore their thoughts and feelings. Several nondirective concepts pioneered by Carl Rogers are examined. These methods, which represent basic concepts of the person-centered approach, are empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence. A brief illustration of an interaction with a patient diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic is presented to suggest the effectiveness of Rogerian counseling.

scholarly journals Psychological Intervention in Psychotic Crisis: a person-centered approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Wykrota TOSTES ◽  
Vera Engler CURY
Keyword(s):  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Physical Restraint ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Unconditional Positive Regard ◽  
The North ◽  
Intervention Process ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Abstract This article describes, theoretically analyzes, and exemplifies, through a fictitious vignette, a psychological intervention of a clinical nature, developed by psychologists in a tertiary mental health care hospital, as an alternative to conventional physical restraint in situations of acute psychotic crises. The theoretical framework adopted is Person-Centered Approach, developed by the North American psychologist Carl Rogers. The psychological intervention reveals the importance of an interpersonal relationship in the care of patients who are going through a psychotic crisis. The psychologist’s therapeutic posture includes the three attitudes advocated by Carl Rogers as necessary and sufficient to facilitate the process of resuming personal autonomy (congruence or authenticity, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding), in addition to confidence in the patient’s own actualizing tendency. The therapeutic strategy presented is a possible resource to be used to stabilize the person in crisis. These attitudes were initially proposed by Rogers and his team to develop and maintain a psychotherapeutic intervention process, but they also proved to be effective in the experience of Brazilian psychologists in relation to patients with severe mental disorders in acute crises.

Hello, Neighbor: Carl and Fred Rogers and a Process of Person-centered Mentorship

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Childhood Exposure ◽  
Fred Rogers ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Though professionally unaware of each other, Carl and Fred Rogers had much–including religious upbringings, early career interests in child well-being, and primary aspects of their philosophies on life and human potential–in common. Carl Rogers became one of the most influential American psychologists to date, in formulating person-centered approaches to psychotherapy and life, and as a children’s television host Fred Rogers was–and has remained, in the eyes of generations of kids and adults alike over the last 50 some-odd years–in many ways perhaps the most exemplary late 20th century embodiment of Carl Rogers’ proposed way of being. Here, I–a mentor to motivated students in the meteorological and psychological sciences, and others in wider life–discuss my discovery of the person-centered approach, via childhood exposure to Fred Rogers; and provide perspective on the ways the person-centered approach can be utilized to foster more effective and meaningful mentorship and learning-based relationships.

Robust management tools for a person-centered medical organization

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Berdutin
Keyword(s):  
Human Factor ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Constant Attention ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Modern social and cultural reality forces the heads of medical institutions to pay increased attention to the human factor, rethinking such basic concepts as «management» and «organization». It is important to cultivate the most comfortable person-centered work environment in medical teams. The main goal of this article was to demonstrate the feasibility of using robust management to maintain the constant attention of the medical administration on the interpersonal relations of employees. The article contains a brief description of robust management tools, a description of the person-centered approach, as well as examples of the use of robust regulators and socionic profiling estimators. The potential of robust management is not revealed when the management simply declares its merits, but when the entire medical team wants and can use it, actively involved in achieving the desired result.

scholarly journals Produção de Conhecimento em Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa: Um Percurso Teórico-Metodológico Gadameriano

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Edson do Nascimento BEZERRA ◽  
Almir Ferreira da SILVA JUNIOR
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutic ◽  
Fusion Of Horizons ◽  
Conceptual Network ◽  
Person Centered Approach ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer

This article aims to present the theoretical-methodological route, built by the first author in his Master's Dissertation under the guidance of the second, based on Hans-Georg Gadamer hermeneutic-philosophical philosophy. Its relevance is justified because it is a structured alternative for conducting bibliographic research within the scope of the Person Centered Approach (PCA). For this, we initially want to justify an epistemological choice of gadamerian hermeneutics in its relation to the research objective. Then, we present the conceptual network formed by the articulation of prejudice, language, tradition, update and fusion of horizons that supports this perspective, in a ways that allows, later, to systematize the phases of information investigation, comprehensive analysis and hermeneutic synthesis to the development of research on the proposed problem. The article ends with the observation of the potentiality and proficiency related to the approximation, and consequent articulation, between PCA and the Gadamerian philosophical perspective, with reflections on the implications regarding the use of a hermeneutic-philosophical method in the production of knowledge in the approach. Palavras-chave : Person-Centered Approach; Philosophical Hermeneutic; Carl Rogers; Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Empathy, Honesty, and Integrity in the Therapist

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White ◽  
Gillian Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Therapist Attitudes ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Empathic Understanding ◽  
Unconditional Positive Regard ◽  
Therapy Relationship ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Fully Functioning

Empathy, honesty, and integrity are essential concepts to ensure the quality of the therapy relationship and the client’s trust in the therapist. This chapter situates these concepts in relation to the necessary and sufficient conditions for therapy proposed by Carl Rogers in the late 1950s, and particularly in relation to the therapist attitudes of empathic understanding, unconditional positive regard, and congruence. In person-centered therapy (PCT), empathy is a moral, not instrumental, practice that nondirectively protects the self-determination of the client. It exemplifies power with others, avoiding power over others, and facilitating power from within, by providing a conduit for non-possessive love, the active ingredient in PCT. Honesty in PCT involves the sincerity of the therapist’s unconditional empathy and the transparence to be a full person in relation to a client. Integrity refers not only to the disciplined moral practice of empathy, but an extensional, fully functioning maturation.

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