Person-centred counselling originated in the thinking of Carl Rogers‚ an eminent American psychologist. He believed that each individual human being had more knowledge and resources to promote their healing and growth than any therapist could ever have – so that the therapist’s job was to create conditions whereby the client could begin to explore and uncover these resources in themselves‚ rather than directly influence the client from a position of “expertise” or “greater knowledge”. These conditions
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Famous psychological theorists‚ Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers‚ possibly two of the greatest thinkers of our time‚ both made much advancement in the field of psychology with their theories‚ clinical evidence‚ and expertise. Some views they shared‚ others they did not. However‚ both psychologists theorized that people have a hidden’ personality within them‚ one which they are not aware of. Although both theories were developed through many years of clinical experience‚ they are each based on their
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The Four Theories of Emotion The four main theories of emotion are interesting views of four scholarly psychologists. The theories are the James-Lange theory‚ the Cannon-Bard theory‚ the Schacter-Singer theory‚ and the Lazarus theory. Each of these four theories explains the order of events that occur when an emotion is present. Each theory is a hypothesis waiting to be tested out. Each of these theories is held by a psychologist(s). The psychologists no matter how far past our time they
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for his theory of The Self. According to Mead‚ “the self begins at a privileged‚ central position in a person’s world.” ( ) Is difficult to consider the viewpoint of others when we only focus ourselves as everything around us. For example‚ when you take a photo with your friend‚ the first time after you get back your camera is to see yourself in the picture without looking at the others first. We tend to place ourselves at the “center of events never entirely disappears.” ( ) The major points of theory
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Notes September 29‚ 2014 By Renee Green – Topic 2- Self Concept Self-Concept is a stable set of perceptions that you hold of yourself. Self-Concept helps us relate to the world‚ it is a product of positive and negative messages received throughout a person’s life for example‚ ego busters “you are ugly “and ego boosters “you have a beautiful face”. Self-Concept is shaped by reflected appraisal whereby a person develop a self-concept that matches the way we believe others see us. Which is done
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Influences on self concept Age- Self concept develops by age in a human‚ due to social influences and this makes a difference to the way children describe themselves and also the way adults think about themselves/ lives. As people get older their self concept changes because they like to feel the same as people they socialise with. Jessica has changed over the years. The way she saw herself when she was younger was that she thought she was horrible because she used to get bullied in school. She
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Own Self Concepts SPC 2300 – 12 Own Self Concepts 1. Define one change you would like to make in yourself. It might be a behavior or anything about yourself that you would like to alter. * I would like to change one of my behaviors about myself. The worst quality about me is that I am always late no matter what the case may be. I am not late on purpose‚ but it seems like something always puts me behind schedule. It drives both my family and friends crazy. They have learned when I say
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has a concept of what they are and who they are. Some people are more aware of this than others‚ because there are individuals who go through a day of work or social interaction without considering who they really are or how they fit into the world around them. It’s not as easy as knowing the person we see in the mirror‚ because self concept is much more an internal factor in our lives‚ separate from how we look to others. Certainly‚ what we see of our face and body is part of the concept‚ but
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substances that exist on planet. That is why chemists use some sort of classification in which each substance would fit into their discrete groupings. Chemist use bonding types‚ electrical conductivity‚ melting and boiling point and physical properties to classify substances into four main groups‚ which are: • Metallic substances • Ionic compounds • Covalent molecular and; • Covalent network substances Metallic substances are substances that are made up of one or more metal. They
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Name Speech class Date Professor Name SELF CONCEPT PAPER First‚ I have to talk about my strengths. I see myself as a very oriented person who is always thriving for the best. According to Eleanor Roosevelt‚ “You gain strength‚ courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…Do the thing you think you cannot do” ("Just quotes "). I am always trying to do the best that I can to achieve my goals no matter how hard they seem to be sometimes. I am a
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