CARL ROGERS AND GLORIA COUNSELLING PT 2

This is PART 2 OF a tape of a Counselling Session between Carl Rogers and Gloria. Carl Rogers uses Person Centred approach. Humanistic style of counselling. This is the SECOND part of about 5/6 videos. To view the OTHER PARTS, just click on esherborne3, or see if they are listed on the right hand side of the screen. Enjoy..........

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Science & Technology

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• COUNSELLING
• CARL
• ROGERS
• GLORIA
• HUMANISTIC
• PERSON
• CENTRED

[MrGrevy]

@nonyrbz I suppose

[nonyrbz]

@nonyrbz BTW thanks for ALLOWING me the right to exercise my right to respond. U R too magnanimous. The people I was responding to were not offering insight either, just crude comments.

[nonyrbz]

@MrGrevy OK, insight. 1. Gloria was living in an age where women who slept with men outside of marriage were considered trash. As a grown woman she wanted a relationship with a man, but did not really want a commitment, so her first instinct was to appease her sexual drive. 2. she wanted to be told that what she was doing was ok and she could continue to live in a lifestyle she felt morally wrong. 3. she only wanted to be validated as a person. Roger's style fulfilled that need.

[beetbop1231]

@nonyrbz thank you very much :)

[beetbop1231]

@MrGrevy Yes, some people do just want to "rent a friend" as it were i suppose. But the aim of person centered therapy isnt to be someones friend, or to tell them things will be ok, because it wont. Things go wrong but they do not stay terrible all the time, like things generally dont stay amazing all the time. A lot of people will seek counsel for their own reasons and when they see how different it might be from their expectations, they get scared and stop going or chose someone else.

[MrGrevy]

I was basing that on her statement that basically said she thought she was a nice guy but wasn't helping her. I know Rogers is respected but I feel like his methods can reinforce bad or overly passive behavior in a lot of situations. I'm glad it works for you but some people just want to rent a friend for an hour or have people tell them they are ok, or to have someone rub vaseline on their bottom and tell them it is special and different than everyone else's, to quote a movie.

[beetbop1231]

@MrGrevy to continue, I know this method of therapy does not work for everyone, vice versa with any type of therapy i suppose. From my point of view, it seems to have an effect on Gloria by observing how she reacts to what Rogers said/to what she has begun to think. Whether she would continue to seek that type of therapy again is unknown, so its long term affects are indeterminable by us. I just dont see how you can assume you know the therapy hasn't affected her at all.

[beetbop1231]

@MrGrevy If you read the end of my statement, i said that i didnt assume you were arrogant or close minded. I do agree that it seems like an unorthodox approach. Your basing your "common Sense" on opinion, persona centered therapy works on a variety of people, else it wouldnt still be practised and discussed like any other method of therapy. It has and is working for me and works very well for many people i know who have also recieved different methods of therapy with negative results.

[MrGrevy]

@Niwram That's the "unconditional" part of Rogers' approach. You can do anything you want and the therapist will smile and nod and reflect and coddle you.

[MrGrevy]

@Izzyhal I said nothing close minded or arrogant, simply common sense. A Person centered approach doesn't seem to have a behavioral component and isn't supported by peer reviewed research.