Rogers

Carl Rogers was the 20^th century humanistic psychologist and founder of person-centered psychology. Carl Rogers was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. He was the fourth of six children of Walter Rogers and Julia Cushing. Rogers was schooled in a strict, religious environment. His original plan was to study agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with an undergraduate focus on history and religion. Rogers began his professional career in child psychology in 1930 as the director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Rogers moved to Chicago in 1945 to work as a professor. He established a counseling center there and published results of his research in Client-Centered Therapy, in 1951 and Psychotherapy and Personality Change in 1954. Later, Rogers returned to the University of Wisconsin, where he remained until he moved to California in 1963 to join the staff of Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. 

While teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rogers wrote one of his most famous books, On Becoming a Person, in which he claimed that people have their own resources for healing and personal growth. Rogers presented the ideas of compatibility, empathic comprehension, acknowledgment, and unequivocal positive respect into the helpful environment to upgrade the result for customers. He urged advocates to show each of these perspectives with a specific end goal to help the customer pick up understanding, perceive emotions, convey what needs be ideal, and accomplish self-acknowledgment and self-completion.

Rogers claimed that a self-actualized, fully functioning person had seven key traits:

1.     Openness to experience and an abandonment of defensiveness. 

2.     An existential lifestyle that emphasizes living in the moment without distorting it. 

3.     Trust in yourself.

4.     The ability to freely make choices. Fully functioning people take responsibility for their own choices, and are highly self-directed. 

5.     A life of creativity and adaptation, including an abandonment of conformity. 

6.     The ability to behave reliably and make constructive choices. 

7.     A full, rich life that involves the full spectrum of human emotions. 

Roger's person-centered approach to therapy has widespread acceptance and is applied in areas of education, cultural relations, nursing, interpersonal relations, and other service and aid-oriented professions and arenas. Rogers' psychological theories have affected cutting edge psychotherapy and have specifically affected the field of emotional well-being. Rogers additionally promoted humanism in psychology. The humanistic psychology development concentrated on the human experience of flexibility, decision, qualities, and objectives.