Carl Rogers, Control Freak

Read Carl Rogers, Control Freak to Discover—

• Master the best technique in counseling.
• 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

The Work of Carl Rogers: Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

Methods Are Not Theories: Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

Greatest Counseling Method: Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

Save the Rogerian Method: Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

Reexamine the Method: Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

Rediscover the Rogerian Method in Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

Practice the Method As Rogers Did: Carl Rogers, Control Freak

• 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.

CONTENTS ORGANIZED BY CHAPTER

Begin

• Title
  • Carl Rogers, Control Freak
• Copyright
  • Copyright © 2012 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
• ISBN
  • ISBN 978-1-878693-26-6
• Dedication
• Description

Rogers Was Skillful

• Rogers Was Accepting
• Rogers Was Empathic
• Rogers Was Intuitive
• Rogers Was Patient
• Rogers Was Present
• Rogers Was Reflective
• Rogers Was Socratic
• Rogers Used Silence
• Rogers Meditated Clients
• Rogers Increased Cognitive Dissonance
  • 4 Ways Rogers Acted Like a Journalist
• Rogers Was Controlling
• Rogers Was Directive
  • 6 Ways Rogers Was Directive
• Rogers Was Not Genuine
  • 10 Ways Rogers Was Not Genuine
• Rogers Was Superior
  • 8 Ways Rogers Was Superior

Misinterpretations of Rogerian Method

• Misinterpreted as Beginning Counseling
• Misinterpreted as Active Listening
• Misinterpreted as Questioning

Rogerian Method: Practices

• Goals for the Rogerian Method
  • 3 Goals for Rogerian Method
• Disclose the Method
• Increase Cognitive Dissonance
• Seek the Inner Conflict
• Conflict about Conflict
• Direct Focus to Inner Conflict
• Redirect Focus to the Conflict
  • Deflect Back
• Redirect Focus to the Client
• Stay Present with the Conflict
• Accept the Conflict as Your Own
• Mirror the Inner Person
• Silently Listen to The Client’s Self-talk
• Trust the Client for Resolution

Rogerian-Method Foils

• Rogerian-Method Protection
• Rogerian Method: Not for All Situations
• Requires Self-Awareness
• Rogerian Method: Not for…

Conflict Resolution

• Meta Counseling Theory
  • 8 Suggested Study Groups for CCM
• Effective Conflict Resolution
  • 29 Ways to Accept or Reject Conflict:
• Ineffective Conflict Resolution
  • 17 Ways to Mishandle Conflict

End

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International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

1. Ebook ISBN: 978-1-878693-26-6
2. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-977044-40-2

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2. Carl Rogers, Control Freak: Table of Contents
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5. Quotations: CBT & REBT Meme Collection
6. Quotations: Communication & Listening
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