
Humanistic/Existential Theories Rogers: Person Centered Theory |  |
Chapter Objectives
| 1. Identify the formative and actualizing tendencies. |
| 2. Discuss Rogers’s concept of self and its development. |
| 3. State the basic needs of individuals according to person-centered theory. |
| 4. Distinguish among self, self-actualization, self-concept, and ideal self. |
| 5. List and describe Rogers’s necessary and sufficient conditions for
psychological growth. |
| 6. Discuss the concept of the person of tomorrow and its implications for
future humanity. |
| 7. Discuss Rogers’s philosophy of science. |
| 8. Discuss the methods, procedures, and results of Rogers’s research on the
effectiveness of client-centered therapy. |
| 9. Discuss Duncan Cramer’s research on Rogers’s facilitative conditions in
situations outside the therapeutic relationship. |
| 10. Critique Rogers’s person-centered theory on the six criteria of a useful
scientific theory. |
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