In Rogers’ theory, the natural consequence of therapy is for the client to experience greater congruence between experience and awareness, and unconditional positive self regard. As a consequence of being received by the therapist through her experience of UPR and empathic understanding for the client, the client comes to experience these conditions towards their self and to others.
Through my research, I have provided some tentative findings lending empirical support for this aspect of the theory. Not only this, the research suggests that when the therapeutic relationship is characterised by mutual experiencing of therapeutic conditions outcomes are also improved.
This event is based on the following article:
Mutuality in person-centered therapy: A new agenda for research and practice – David Murphy, Duncan Cramer & Stephen Joseph
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I’m Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham and Programme Director for the MA Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy. My research interests are in the person-centred experiential approach, person-centred experiential pedagogy, and organisation and structure of the psy-professions more broadly.
