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Humanistic/Existential Theories
Rogers: Person Centered Theory
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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.