Client - Centered Approach ( (F.Ango)

INTRODUCTION
TO
CLIENT - CENTERED AP-
PROACH
PRESENTED BY:
FARIDA ANGO
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH 1
SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY,
UDUTHS,
SOKOTO
OUTLINE OF LESSON
 Definition Client Centered Approach.

 Benefit and people that will benefit from
Client Centered Approach.
 Basic elements to Client Centered Ap-
proach
 The roles of a counselor and client in
client centered Approach
 The relationship between a counselor
and Client.
BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES
 At the end the end of the lecture, the

student will be able to:
 Define Client Centered Approach.
 State the benefit and people that will
benefit from Client Centered Approach.
 List and explain the basic elements to
 Outline the roles of a counselor and
client in client centered Approach
 Enumerate the relationship between a
counselor and Client.
INTRODUCTION
 Client-centered Approach, also known as person-

centered Approach or Rogerian therapy,
 It is a non-directive form of talk therapy developed
by humanist psychologist Carl Rogers during the
1940s and 1950s.
 In this approach, the client act as an equal partner
in the therapy process, while the therapist remains
non-directive—he don't pass judgments on the pa-
tient feelings or offer suggestions or solutions.
 Rogers deliberately used the term "client"
rather than "patient." He believed that "pa-
tient" implied that the individual was sick
and seeking a cure from a therapist.
 By using "client" instead, Rogers emphasized
the importance of the individual in seeking
assistance, controlling their destiny, and
overcoming their difficulties.
 This self-direction plays a vital part in client-
centered therapy.
DEFINITION
 The Integrative Client-Centered Model

(ICCM) 2015) defined Client Centered Ap-
proach as a counseling perspective where
the client must make the choices which
affect their lives.
 Client - Centered Approach is also define
as an approach that emphasis on a pa-
tient's or client's autonomy and right to
choose goals and/or interventions based
on his or her identified needs for services.
BENEFITS OF CLIENT CENTERED APPROACH
INCLUDE:
 Greater ability to trust oneself

 Decrease in anxiety and feelings of panic
 Healthier relationships
 Open to new ideas and experiences
 Depression recovery
 Increased self-esteem
 Ability to express personal feelings and opinions
 Lessened guilt over past mistakes
 Decreased feelings of stress
 Overall healthy sense of change
 This type of Approach benefits people
with the following conditions:
 Depression (beneficial to people enrolled in depression
treatment facilities)
 Poor relationships
 Schizophrenia
 Anxiety
 Substance abuse (for anyone enrolled in a treatment for
drug abuse center)
 Personality disorders
 Feelings of panic
 Stress
 Eating disorders (helpful to anyone
seeking bulimia help, anorexia treat-
ment or assistance for binge eating)
 Phobias
THE BASIC ELEMENT OF CLIENT -
CENTERED APPROACH
 Client-centered therapy operates accord-

ing to three basic elements that reflect
the attitude of the therapist to the client:
 Congruence
 Unconditional positive regard.
 Empathetic
 Self-Actualization
CONGRUENCE
 It means genuineness & Caring

 The Counselor should be real without
False Front
 Considered by Rogers as most impor-
tant
 Trying too hard to be genuine can lead
to incongruence
 Therapist does not have to be fully self-
actualized in order to be effective:
However, Congruence must be present
in the counseling relationship
UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE RE-
GARD
 Refers to acceptance of the worth

of the person; not acceptance or
approval of all behaviors.
 This refers to the therapist’s deep
andgenuine caring for the client.
 The therapist may not approve of some of the
client’s actions, but the therapist does ap-
prove of the client.
 In short, the therapist needs an attitude of
“I’ll accept you as you are.”
 The person-centered counselor is thus care-
ful to always maintain a positive attitude to
the client, even when disgusted by the
client’s actions.
EMPATHY
 Empathy is the ability to under-

stand what the client is feeling.
 This refers to the therapist’s abil-
ity to understand sensitively and
accurately [but not sympatheti-
cally] the client’s experience and
feelings in the here and now.
SELF -ACTUALIZATION
Looked at the healthy rather than the sick side of clients

and at the value of their moving toward self-actualization
through which they experience
 Tolerance of uncertainty  Capacity for deep

 Acceptance of self and others personal relationships
 Spontaneity and creativity  Sense of humor
 Comfort with solitude  Genuine caring for
 Autonomy others
 Inner-directedness
 Positive outlook on life
THERAPEUTIC GOALS AND
OBJECTIVES
 To achieve a greater degree of
integration and independence
 To focus on the person rather than on
the presenting problem.
 No preset goals
 Client with the help of a trusted, facilitat-
ing therapist will set own course
THERAPEUTIC OBJECTIVES
 Congruence
 Increased trust in self
 Increased willingness to explore
alternatives
 Increased personal resources
ROLE OF THE THERAPIST
AND CLIENT
 To establish a therapeutic climate (i.e., con-

gruence, empathy, unconditional positive
regard) that facilitates growth and change.
 Clients should be able to:
 Feel understood and accepted without judgment
 Lower their defenses to self-exploration and feel
more open to experience
 Discover hidden aspects of themselves
 Become more realistic
 Perceive others with greater accuracy
RELATIONSHIP OF COUN-
SELOR & CLIENT
 Quality of relationship determines outcome of counseling

 2 people are in psychological contact
 Client is in state of incongruence, being vulnerable or
anxious
 Counselor is congruent or integrated in the relationship
 Counselor experiences unconditional positive regard for
the client
 Counselor experiences an empathic understanding of the
client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors to
communicate this experience to the client
 The communication to the client of the counselor’s
empathic understanding and unconditional positive regard
is to a minimal degree achieved
CONCLUSION
 Client Centered Approach should be used

to solve patient problem because it en-
hance healing and recovery.
 ASSIGNMENT
 READ ON INTERPERSONAL COMMUNI-
CATION.
REFERENCEK
 Oaklandcare((2022) . PERSON CENTERED AP-

PROACH retrieve from
https://oaklandcare.com/latest-news/five-benefit
s-person-centred-approach/
on 30/3/2023.
 Practical psychology ( 2023). CLIENT CENTER AP-
PROACH retrieve from
https://practicalpie.com/client-centered-therapy/
on 30/3/23.

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INTRODUCTION

 Definition Client Centered Approach.

 At the end the end of the lecture, the

 Client-centered Approach, also known as person-

 The Integrative Client-Centered Model

 Greater ability to trust oneself

 Client-centered therapy operates accord-

 It means genuineness & Caring

 Refers to acceptance of the worth

 Empathy is the ability to under-

Looked at the healthy rather than the sick side of clients

 Tolerance of uncertainty  Capacity for deep

 To establish a therapeutic climate (i.e., con-

 Quality of relationship determines outcome of counseling

 Client Centered Approach should be used

 Oaklandcare((2022) . PERSON CENTERED AP-

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