Transcript Document 9654466

Matakuliah
Tahun
: L0194 – Psikologi Kepribadian
: 2010
Carl Rogers
Person-Centered Theory
Pertemuan 19
Carl Ransom Rogers
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Basic Assumptions
• Formative tendency
– From simpler to more complex forms
• Actualizing tendency
– See move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials
• Need for maintenance, is expressed in people’s
desire to protect ther current, comfortable self
concept
• Need for enhancement, is to become more, to
develop, and to achieve growth
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• Human actualization tendency is realized only
under certain conditions: involve with person who
• Self  awareness as I/ Me
• Self Actualization  tendency to actualize the self as
perceived in awareness
• Self concept
• The ideal self
• Incongruence
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Awareness
• Experiences that ignored or denied
• Woman walking down a busy street
• Mother who had no willing to have children
• Accurately symbolize the experience that consistent with
their self concept
• The pianist
• Experiences that are perceived in distorted form , so it
can be assimilated into our existing self concept
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• The pianist with his distrusted competitor and
Becoming a person
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Defense
• Defensiveness  the protection of self concept against
anxiety and threat by denial or distortion of experiences
inconsistent with it (Rogers, 1959)
– Distortion  misinterpret an experiences in order to fit it into
some aspects of our self concept
• Perceive experience in awareness, but fail to
understand its true meaning
– Denial  refuse perceive an experiences in awareness or
keeping it ro reach symbolization
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Disorganization
• Cause: discrepancy between people’s organismic
experience and their view of self too obvious or occurs
too suddenly to be denied or distorted
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Client-Centered Therapy
• Condition
• Process
• Outcomes
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Characteristic healthy person
• More adaptable
• Open to their experiences
• Trust in their organismic selves
• Live fully in moment  existential living
• Harmonious relations with others
• More integrated
• Basic trust of human nature
• Enjoy a greater richness in life
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