Person Centred Therapy - Attunement - Core Conditions - beimg one with Your Client- Simply Psychology
What are the main ideas? The basis of the Person-Centred Experiential approach is the theory of the actualizing tendency. Imagine how an acorn has the potential to develop into an oak tree. Given the right nutrients from the soil, the right balance of sunlight and shade, it will grow to be its fullest potential as an oak tree. But, given a lack of nutrients from the soil, the wrong balance of sunlight and shade, its full potential as an oak tree will be not be fulfilled. In the same way, people are motivated within themselves to want to achieve their full potential and to flourish as a human being. Such a person would be authentic, always open to learning about themselves, responsible for themselves and their actions, and able to have close and intimate relationships. But it is unusual for people to experience such well balanced social environments that they achieve such optimal flourishing. Most people experience to a greater or lesser degree social environments that, like the poor ...