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Ep 5 Carl Rogers (Person Centred Helping)

Talking To Change - A Motivational Interviewing Podcast

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The Rogers Model of Openness

In some ways murrs the very essence of what it is we ere doing in our contacts with clients. And he's a human being, so he had his own limitations and defences. Some things he wouldn't allow a really direct challenging of like this notion of unconditional positive regard. But he was open enough to let his own students and others have access to recordings of his work,. To do their own research on them, and then to publish that contradicted his beliefs. I think that's a good modelling of the kind of openness that we need in order for things to get better rit it. The way we've done things, as good as it seems, isn't necessarily the best way

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