Person-Centred key Concepts

What are Conditions of Worth?

• Laws and values of society

• Religious values

• The ways we believe we must be to gain approval and acceptance from others

• Having all the right answers

What does the Locus of Evaluation describe?

• How a person makes a decision or value judgement

• How a person judges others

• How a person feels

• How a person values others

A person's sense of self based significantly on conditions of worth.

• True Self

• Organismic Self

• Self-Concept

• Congruent Self

The self-actualised person would not be described as

• Congruent

• Fully Functioning

• Self-Aware

• Dysfunctional

Which of the following is not one of the necessary and sufficient conditions?

• The counsellor is empathic

• The client is incongruent

• The counsellor is unconditionally accepting and non-judgemental

• The client is unaware of the counsellor's attitude

What is empathy?

• Feeling what someone else feels and communicating this awareness

• Thinking about how you would feel in their shoes and sharing this

• Feeling what someone else feels and being reassuring

• Being sympathetic and trying to help them to feel better

Congruence is not

• Being what I seem to be

• Being transparent

• Being my true self

• Being confident

Non-directiveness means

• Encouraging the person to chose what they want to talk about and find their own solutions

• Encouraging the person to chose what they want to talk about and asking questions

• Encouraging the person to chose what to talk about and referring to what they have talked about before

• Encouraging the person to chose what what to talk about and keeping them on track

What is the therapeutic relationship?

• A basis for therapy

• Important for therapy

• The therapy itself

• The start of the therapy

Answer explanation

What is the best way to understand someone?

• From my experience

• From their frame of reference

• From a theoretical perspective

• From working with other people