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Question

Rogers in his Person Centred Counselling approach emphasizes _______ and _______.

The correct answer is
Unconditional Positive Regard; Empathy

Rogers' Person-Centred Counselling Core Conditions

Carl Rogers' Person-Centred Counselling approach is founded on specific therapist attitudes that facilitate client growth and self-understanding. These core conditions are essential for creating a therapeutic environment where clients feel safe to explore their experiences.

Key Emphases in Rogerian Therapy

The approach emphasizes the therapist's ability to provide:

  • Unconditional Positive Regard: This involves deep acceptance and valuing of the client as a person, without judgment or conditions placed on their worth. It means the therapist respects the client's feelings and experiences, even if they disapprove of certain behaviors.
  • Empathy: This refers to the therapist's capacity to understand the client's world from the client's own perspective. It involves sensing the client's feelings and meanings, and communicating this understanding back to the client effectively.

While Congruence (genuineness) is the third core condition, the question specifically highlights the pair of Unconditional Positive Regard and Empathy as central components emphasized in the Person-Centred approach.

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Important Questions from Guidance and counselling - Teaching

  1. Which of the following statements related to learning theory approach to counselling are INCORRECT?

    A. Dollard & Miller relates psyhoanalytic methods to reinforcement learning theory.
    B. Counselling, according to Pepinskys, aims to strengthen the counselle's behaviour.
    C. Eysenck refers to conditioning methods in counselling as "behaviour theraphy"
    D. Irrational behaviour is learned and it cannot be changed through learning or relearning.
    E. According to Pepinskys, the 'cultural context' does not provide conditions assumed to be antecedent to subsequent learning.

    Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
  2. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R
    Assertion A: Educational guidance is prescriptive and remedial in nature to solve the problems faced by students in schools.
    Reason R: It's aim is to provide assistance to pupils in their choices and adjustment with relation to school, curriculum and school life.
    In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
  3. Match List - I with List - II and indicate your answer with the help of codes given below :

    List - I (Counselling Skills)
    p. Self-disclosure
    q. Directive
    r. Reframing
    s. Logical consequences

    List - II (Features)
    1. Telling the client to view the problem from an alternate perspective.
    2. Explaining to the client the logical outcomes of sequential thinking.
    3. Counsellor discloses about personal experiences from the past.
    4. Telling the client how to go about solving the problem/crisis.
  4. Arrange the following in order of sequence of career planning and decision making :
    1. Educational awareness
    2. Career exploration
    3. Self-awareness
    4. Career awareness
    Codes:
  5. The emphasis of guidance programme is relatively more on :
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