Carl Rogers - Six Necessary and Sufficient Conditions - PDF

Six Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Carl Rogers stated that ‘for constructive personality change to occur, it is necessary that these [six] conditions exist and continue over a period of time.' The conditions are:

Psychological contact between counsellor and client
The client is incongruent (anxious or vulnerable)
The counsellor is congruent
The client receives empathy from the counsellor
The counsellor shows unconditional positive regard towards the client
The client perceives acceptance and unconditional positive regard.

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[sophiebubbbles]

Very helpful. I’m studying level 3 and this has given me a greater insight on the conditions. Fantastic video and thank you 🌻

[AB-yeno]

Hiya great videos, I have a question. I have just done a level 3 counselling studies course and used the term phenomenology to explain a experience of a talker from his perspective/frame of reference plus used the concepts of intersections, explaining my coping mantras, and used configurations to explain my part of self I associated to The loving father, when interacting with my son with autism. The examiner feed back was I used the wrong terminology and the feedback my tutor highlighted was the fact I went from the core conditions of 3 to 6 but left out the quality of the 3. The take away for me was difficult, I was defensive and hurt but learnt this was my mistake to stick to the course rather than the personal study I did to develop my understanding. This is growth for me, but hopefully this insight stick to the course material level is more important. Thank you. I have read Carl Rogers becoming a person and Person Centred as well as Dave Mearns on PCT today, Michael Jacobs the presenting past.