PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Rogers believed that unconditional positive regard is essential for healthy development and tried to establish it as a therapeutic component. Through providing unconditional positive regard, humanistic therapists seek to help their clients accept and take responsibility for themselves.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carl Rogers described unconditional positive regard as: “… caring for the client, but not in a possessive way or in such a way as simply to satisfy the therapist’s own needs… It means caring for the client as a separate person, with permission to have his own feelings, his own experiences” (Rogers, 1957).

Detailed explanation-3: -Carl Rogers believed that humans in their daily lives are creative and active people who stay in the present and are concerned with situations, interpersonal relationships and perceptions, only in the present. Roger’s theory of personality development gives emphasis to human potential and free will for goodness.