Influence on Counselling Psychology

• Who is Rogers?

  The founding father of the professional counselling movement
• Why is Rogers influential?

  Was the first psychologist to record, transcribe and publish complete cases of psychotherapy

  Did more scientific research on psychotherapy that have ever been undertaken before
• Why did medical and psychiatric professions feel alienated?

  The knowledge evidence that's based and their expertise is side-lined in favour of 'cure' based
• What was more likely depending on how disturbed the client was?

  How likely it was that the features of a successful therapy would be present
• Criticism:

  Who may his ideas be applied to?

  A limited range of clients who suffered from milder forms of neurosis
• Criticism:

  What does it lack?

  Some fundamental requirements of the scientific approach e.g. inappropriate control groups
• Criticism:

  What does it doubt?

  That therapists can or should establish a relationship of UPR in the case of dangerously violent people
• What hasn't Rogers done?

  Hasn't gathered empirical support for his therapy
• What does he fail to understand?

  How parents might put his ideas into practice when raising children with behaviour that may be difficult
• What has it yet to demonstrate?

  How it's harmful in anyway
• What does his basic concept of human nature tend towards?

  The good and healthy
• What does Rogers highlight?

  The difference between clinical psychologists and private psychotherapists

  Clinical psychologists - qualified in academic psychology

  Private psychotherapists - humanistic background