The Rationale of the Counsellor’s Role
Rogers, 1951
“In a therapeutic relationship where the
therapist endeavors to keep himself out, as a
separate person, and where his whole endeavor
is to understand the other so completely that he
becomes almost an alter ego of the client…”
“To perceive as sensitively and accurately as
possible all of the perceptual field as it is being
experienced by the client…To indicate to the
client the extent to which he is seeing through
the client’s eyes…
To lay aside all perceptions the the external
frame of reference, while doing so, and to
communicate something of this empathic
understanding to the client”
It may be more accurately said that the counsellor
who is effective in client-centered therapy holds a
coherent and developing set of attitudes deeply
imbedded in her personal organization, a system of
attitudes which is implemented by techniques and
methods consistent with it”
Lastly,
Motivational interviewing is “way of being” with
people and not something we do to people..