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Carl Rogers, Control Freak
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- How To Use the Rogerian Method
- How To Save the Work of Carl Rogers
- How To Save Counseling’s Greatest Technique
- How To Use Roger’s Technique
- This book is about the work of Carl Rogers, not the life of Carl Rogers.
- The personal problems Carl Rogers had with alcohol and his marriage have nothing to do with his counseling method.
- This short book focuses on the method of counseling that Rogers invented.
- The messenger is not the message.
- The distinction means that if Carl Rogers’s method is to be evaluated, then it should be evaluated separately from his life.
- Was Rogers a wounded healer? Perhaps so.
- Method and technique are not to be confused with counseling theory.
- A counseling theory is a set of guiding principles that structure the course of counseling.
- A method or technique is a strategy for eliciting a response from a client.
- Counseling theories, therefore, provide general directions for achieving specific goals, while methods or techniques are particular strategies for promoting a change or curative response from a client.
- Carl Rogers gave the counseling world its most effective, efficient, and advanced method.
- Unfortunately, Rogers feared to face the true nature of his method and buried it under false philosophy and theory that diametrically opposed it.
- Rogers’ betrayal of his method has led to a corruption of his method, causing it to be diluted, at best, and in many cases lost.
- We must separate the theory of Carl Rogers from the method of Carl Rogers to resurrect and preserve his superior method.
- Rogers was a unique genius who provided the counseling world with its best method, and both he and his theory are rightly honored and valued.
- His theory is simply humanism and self-actualization applied to counseling; something others have done both before and after Rogers.
- Rogers was an idealist, and most of his expounded ideals are noble and helpful.
- For instance, Rogers wanted teachers to be facilitators and resource persons for the discovery process, rather than merely a series of audio recordings.
- Both the method of Rogers and the theory of Rogers are valuable in their own right.
- Please re-experience the Rogerian Method in light of this book, and leave the rest to dust.
- If we could present the method as our own or something new, we would; but that would be a lie.
- Save counseling’s greatest method for future generations.
- Let us increase the odds that more than just the lucky few can find a counselor proficient in the Rogerian Method.
- This book will help you discover the true nature of the method.
- But ultimately, you must work this out for yourself.
- You must again watch the videos of Rogers at work.
- You must again analyze his method.
- You must experiment and test until you are confident, from your own examination, what the nature of the method is.
- If you wish to debate Rogers’ theories, then you are missing the point: The Rogerian Method works wonders and needs to be salvaged and seen for what it is, separate from all theory and philosophy.
- Those who continue to banter about philosophies after reading this book are those incapable of performing the method.
- You can have any theoretical orientation you like and still use the Rogerian Method effectively, as long as you understand the method for what it is.
- Putting the method into a new context, a new theory of understanding—frees it for future exploration.
- Once the method is free and alive again, then you can make up any philosophies or theories about it that you want or need.
- The method will have been saved.
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