How can the person-centred core conditions help me to understand and change my life?
Richard Small Introduction to Counselling [14/01/04] How can the person-centred core conditions help me to understand and change my life? In 1957 a groundbreaking paper entitled 'The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change' was published in the United States. The author of the paper was the founding father of the person-centred model in counselling, Carl Rogers. Rogers had joined the University of Chicago in 1945 and it was there that he developed his theory. It grew out of Abraham Maslow's humanistic approach to counselling and developed speed because of the number of new patients needing counselling after World War II. Rogers' paper included six 'core conditions' which he felt were vital for a successful therapeutic relationship. These were later narrowed down to three conditions: congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy. During the course of this essay I will briefly examine what is meant by each three of these elements and then I will explore how they can help me to understand and change my life for the better. Congruence is the single most distinctive aspect of the person-centred approach. In being congruent, the therapist aims at all times to be a real person with the client, to 'throw away the white coat'. Rogers believed that successful therapeutic relationships should be based along similar lines to
How a Teacher Can Change a Life
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Can a person be Muslim without going to the mosque?
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Racism will stay on our earth, until we can educate every single person in this world
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Reality. One event can be told many ways, our lives, experiences and goals change our perception of the event and therefore alter our reality. Look Both Ways directed by Sarah Watt, shows how one event can change a person, or many people's lives.
Reality can take many forms, the owner of the reality can manipulate and change it to reveal and revolve around different things. Reality is what makes us different, unique; our perception of it is what defines us, what creates us. Our ability to interoperate and function with our interpretation of reality is what leads to our understanding of life, how we interoperate our reality is what helps us to build and refine our life goals and morals. One reality is never the same as another, as we all interoperate it differently due to our different experiences and lifestyles, for example, one year 12 students experience is different to another, as they aim at achieve different things out of school and life in general. You can imagine an alternative reality, you can live an alternative reality, though some people try and live by their reality, their self created reality, they only succeed in getting lost in this parallel universe, and by doing so confusing fantasy for reality. One event can be told many ways, our lives, experiences and goals change our perception of the event and therefore alter our reality. Look Both Ways directed by Sarah Watt, shows how one event can change a person, or many people's lives. Look Both Ways uses the theme of death to show the characters deepest hopes and fears, Meryl and Nick who both imagine death at every corner, Julie and the train driver who
Cultural Analysis of a Person: can we read people as cultural texts
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Assertiveness is one of the most powerful communication tools a person can possess.
Assertiveness MBA 525DL Assertiveness is one of the most powerful communication tools a person can possess. Effective assertive communication involves several specific personal skills such as assertive speaking, touching, writing, body language, non-communication, learning about other people and developing an understanding of emotions. Verbal communications can literally cut across cultural, religious and personal beliefs. Not to mention the listeners emotional state that could directly affect their understanding of what is actually being spoken. Males, females, young adults and children all have their own interpretations of certain words, tones and body languages. No one person can ever expect to be 100% effective when it comes to dealing with these many interpretations, but with enough understanding a good communicator can be successful the majority of the time. In many respects effective and efficient communication really is what the appearance of being assertive is all about. According to The Arthritis Society article, Assertive Communication (2003, para. 1), "How you communicate with others is sometimes defined by psychologists according to patterns of interpersonal behavior, that is, either passive, aggressive or assertive. Each broadly defines a particular way of responding to others; whether you respond passively, aggressively or assertively will to a large
Caring for the environment is the most important thing a religious person can do
‘Caring for the environment is the most important thing a religious person can do’ In many religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism, it is said that God gave humans the responsibility to look after the world and care for the environment. However, none of the creation stories say how important this duty is and what priority should it have. On one hand, Christians and Jews would agree with this viewpoint as God gave humans this responsibility after creating humans. Genesis 2:15 says “And the Lord God took the man, and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it”. This means that humans were given the responsibility of being “stewards” of the earth, and as this was one of the first commands God gave it can be seen as the most important one by some. In Hinduism, the environment is also extremely important, and some would agree that caring for the environment has the highest priority and is the most important thing they can do. In Hinduism, it is said that the creator Brahma used parts of himself to form the earth, and therefore harming earth would be harming Brahma himself too: “Arjuna, whatever you wished to see, behold at once in this body of mine! This universal form can show you whatever you now desire to see and whatever you may want to see in the future. Everything, moving and non-moving-is here completely, in one place.”
How can I change the resistance of a wire?
How can I change the resistance of a wire? Introduction: Electricity is conducted through a wire, it moves using free electrons - the amount of free electrons depends on the type of wire, the more free electrons the more conductive the wire. Free electrons are what are called 'given energy' so they move and collide with other free electrons beside them. These collisions or 'jumps' as they are sometimes called; occur all the way down the wire, and this is how electricity is conducted. Each time they collide it converts some of the energy the free electrons have in to heat. And that is what RESISTANCE IS THE RESULT OF KENITIC ENERGY LOST AS HEAT. Ohms law is also quite important to this; in 1826, George Ohm discovered that: the current flowing through a metal wire is proportional to the potential difference across it (providing the temperature remains constant). It says that the current is proportional to the voltage. So if you double the voltage the current doubles to. This also comes into play with the length of the wire, if you double the length of wire, the resistance doubles too. The thickness of the wire of the wire also affects it to, if you have some very thin wire then the resistance is higher, this is because there aren't as many free electrons to collide with. But with a thicker wire the resistance is lower because there are a lot more free electrons to
Caring for the environment is the most important thing a religious person can do. Do you agree?
Caring for the environment is the most important thing a religious person can do. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answers showing you have thought about more than one point of view. Use religious arguments in your answer. ________________ Caring for the environment is a very big dilemma in the modern world. It is easily anticipated that humans are to rule the world and it is theirs to own and use for their own benefits. However many believe that God has made us his stewards and we are to rule the world and ‘look after it’. These may be the religious views but many atheists believe that harming the natural world will affect the eco-systems and eventually us. The two major religions Christianity and Hinduism have strict views on whether the world is something humans should care about. Christianity holds a very significant view about this. They believe that because God gave them the ‘responsibility to look after the world’ they must treat it with care. This is backed up by good proof as seen here ‘The environment should be treated with care and land should not be over-exploited’. (Exodus 23:10-11). This not the only significant part of the Christian belief but also many important Christian figure- heads explain a similar concept. ‘As children of God we have responsibility to take care of it.’ Major Christine Parkin training and development officer.
