Authentic Counselling Training
Diploma in Counselling
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Assignment F: Analysis of a Core
Condition
Chronology
The text of this assignment is final only at the start of the term in which it is intended that the report be written. It is intended that this report be written during the third term of the course. The target submission date is the final teaching session of the third term of the course.
Purpose of the assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to consider in detail a key feature of the person-centred counselling model.
Procedure for the assignment
Utilising the headings (and subheadings) pinpointed below, write a structured report, of at least 2,000 words and no more than 3,000 words, that addresses clearly and in detail the person-centred core condition of unconditional positive regard. Please read, draw on, and use quotations from material (including from the booklist given below) written by Carl Rogers and by other relevant person-centred authors such as Bozarth, Barrett-Lennard, Gaylin, Patterson, Tolan, Merry, Mearns and Thorne.
1. Introduction: brief outline of the scope of the report (what the report will consider)
2. Supporting what you write with material drawn from appropriate theoretical (not general dictionary) sources, and additionally from your personal experience, consider what you understand by each of the person-centred terms:
o Warmth
o Acceptance
o Respect
o Prizing
3. Supporting what you write with brief examples drawn from your domestic and/or work life, consider the circumstances when you have felt
o a negative regard for someone
o a negative self-regard
o a conditional positive regard for someone
o a conditional positive self-regard
o an unconditional positive regard for someone
o an unconditional positive self-regard
4. Supporting what you write with brief examples drawn from your domestic and/or work life, consider the effect on both you and on the other person when you have expressed to them your:
o negative regard for them
o your conditional positive regard for them
o your unconditional positive regard for them
5. Supporting what you write both with material drawn from appropriate theoretical sources, and with brief examples drawn from your experience as a Listener (counsellor) in the observed practice rooms, your counselling placement (or some other formal situation in which you have helped another person), consider the
o strengths / advantages
o difficulties / disadvantages
of expressing unconditional positive regard in a person-centred counselling relationship (including the reaction / response of the Speaker (client))
6. Conclusion, including
o what insights about the core condition of unconditional positive regard you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what insights about the nature of person-centred counselling you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what insights about yourself you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what you feel satisfied with about the report, and what you feel least satisfied with about the report.
7. Bibliography, giving full bibliographical details, including author, year of publication, (title of article if in a journal), title of publication, name of publisher, place of publication.
Suggestions for Reading
Barrett-Lennard, G.T. (1998) Carl
Rogers’ Helping System
Bozarth, J. (1998) Person-Centered
Therapy: A Revolutionary Paradigm Ross-on-Wye: PCCS
Books
Bozarth, J and Wilkins, P (eds) (2001) Unconditional Positive Regard (
Kirschenbaum, H. and Henderson, V.L.
(eds.) (1997) The Carl Rogers Reader
Mearns, D. and Thorne, B. (1999) Person Centred
Counselling in Action 2nd edn.,
Merry, T. (1999) Learning and Being in Person-Centred
Counselling Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
Rogers,
C.R. (1993) Client Centred Therapy
(1951-current edns.)
Rogers, C.R. (1989)
On Becoming a Person: A therapists view of
psychotherapy (1961-current edns.) London:
Constable
Rogers, C.R.
Tolan, J. (2003) Skills in Person-Centred
Counselling & PsychotherapyLondon:
Sage
Assignments for Diploma in Counselling: Essay preparation, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L
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