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    Carl Rogers was an American Psychologist. He was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and the founder of person-centered psychotherapy. He also developed the notion of the fully-functioning person. He focused a lot of the development of self. Carl Rogers was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. Carl Rogers was born on January 8th, 1902 in Oak Park Illinois. Carl was the fourth child out of six children by Julia Cushing and Walter Rogers. He was a very early achiever

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    Carl Rogers was an influential American psychologist who emphasized the importance of showing empathy, understanding, and positive regard towards other people. He believed that humanity was innately “good” and his humanistic views on personality development were revolutionary for the time period and still remain significant to this day. “In one survey of professional psychologists, Rogers was ranked as the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20th-century” (Cherry, 2017). Rogers brought a new fresh

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    Carl Rogers is the father of the humanistic movement in psychotherapy His core theme in therapy is non-judgmental listening & acceptance of the client, better known as unconditional positive regard His therapeutic approach is known as the Person Centered Therapy, which is based on the concepts of humanistic psychology & shares many of the concepts of Existentialism Both of these concepts share the idea that the client can make positive & constructive choices His approach is also based on the theory

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    Carl Roger was born on January 8, 1902 Oak Park, Illinois and Died on February 4, 1987 at the age of 85 in San Diego, California. Growing up His father, Walter A. Rogers, was a civil engineer and his mother, Julia M. Cushing, was a homemaker and serious Pentecostal Christian. Carl was the fourth of their six children. Rogers was very intelligent and could read well before kindergarten. Following an education in a strict religious and ethical environment as an altar boy at the vicarage of Jimply

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    the founding fathers of humanism, Carl Rogers was very interested in an approach to psychology that had to do with the thoughts and feelings of clients (notice that the word patient is sparsely used). His feelings on resourceful therapy were always centered around the client and how they wanted the therapy to affect their life. In humanistic psychology, the main focus is allowing the client to decide how the therapy would direct them on their own life. Carl Rogers, as with many other humanistic psychologists

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    Carl Rogers vs B. F. Skinner – Which Perspective is the Most Important? A long-debated argument in the field of Psychology has been which theory or explanation of human behavior is the most important and the most viable. Is B. F. Skinner’s theory that behavior is the result of man’s response to external stimuli or is Carl Rogers’ theory that man’s behavior is the result of his determination to achieve self-actualization the best explanation? After much research and thought, I will argue in favor

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    Psychology Assessment Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who developed the theory of personality. This theory helps us to understand human behaviour by looking at a person’s self-image and their actions and therefore shows that everyone is different. Rogers believed that people can achieve self-actualization through unconditional positive regard, congruence and genuineness. (McLeod, 2014) Self-actualization is when a person can reach their full potential and this happens when their self-image

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    force spawned. This force became known as the existential humanist approach developed by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Like most psychologists of his era; Carl Rogers trained psychodynamically (Prochaska & Norcross 2010). However, he didn't stay psychodynamic for long. Rogers disagreed with many of Freud's presumptions about therapy and more fundamentally, about people. Along with Abraham Maslow, Rogers pioneered the humanistic movement in psychology. The humanistic approach assumes that people

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    Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers are two psychologists who developed theories on personalities. Sigmund Freud was known as the “Father of Psychoanalysis” and his well known theory stated that nearly all psychological issues went back to a sexual problem. Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who researched the personality theory in the notion of the self or the self concept. Freud was known for having the inclinations to follow every mental issue back to sexual issues. Despite the fact that lone

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    Carl Rogers In life, there is nothing more important than knowing oneself. Carl Rogers, a famous psychologist in the 1900s, compiled a theory that went past the Freudian and behaviorist approaches and delved into the secrets of the individual. Relatively, Rogers explored the importance of taking a humanistic approach to understanding personality and with regard parents may seek the most proficient way to guide their children. In his theory, Rogers stressed on the concept of phenomenology. Derived

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