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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David Murphy, PhD., is a Chartered Psychologist, Full Member of the Division of Counselling Psychology, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Registered member of General Psychotherapy Council. He is Professor of Psychology and Education and Director for the Centre for Research in Human Flourishing at The University of Nottingham, England. He is a person-centred psychotherapist, supervisor and researcher.
