This is the case study using PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY by Carl Rogers. PLEASE FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES EXATELY: The case study to analysis is attached in “additional materials” Follow the guidelines below in writing up your case analysis paper
.Format: 1) Make your case analysis write-up brief and succinct, approximately 8 doubled-spaced pages. – 2) Keep superfluous or tangential explanations or comments to a minimum. Show knowledge of the PERSON-CENTERED theory you are using. Don’t waste time or space in your analysis defining terms or explaining concepts about the therapy. DO identify the ideas from the therapeutic approach, but your task is to apply them to show an understanding of the case and how that therapy approach might be used beneficially; your task is to make sense of the client through the lens of the theory. – 3) Always cite information from the case when making a claim. Each time you make an observation about the case and each time you use a concept from the theory, you must specify what details from the case supports your drawing such a conclusion. If you simply say something from the theory is true without saying what information from the case supports your claim, then you are not writing the case properly and you will not get credit for your use of that part of the theory. Structure: Your case analysis paper must include the sections described below. I suggest you use these section names as headings to label each section of your analysis. 1) Demographic Information-Provide a brief description about the pertinent client demographics, e.g. age, gender, race/ethnicity, educational background, sexual orientation, family status, etc. – 2) Psychological Problems -From the PERSON-CENTERED theory, describe the client’s personality, current/past patterns of behavior, and main issues. Ask yourself how the theory helps you to understand the kind of person and problems being presented in the case. Use as much of the theory as you can and try to describe as much of the client’s personality, behavior, and problems as possible through the theory’s lens. All of the theories we cover in this course have their own perspective on the nature, meaning and etiology of psychological problems and symptoms. Consider each of the kinds of problems, how the problems or symptoms might be related to each other. Then describe how the theory might explain the reason for the symptom, how it arose and what function, if any, it plays.
3) The Counseling Relationship -From this theoretical perspective, what would your relationship with the client look like? What is your role? The client’s role? Your responsibilities? The client’s responsibilities?
– 4) The Counseling Process-How would you envision working with the client from this theoretical perspective? What would be the goals of counseling? What stages or marker events would you anticipate? What specific techniques would you use? It is in this section that you would note your countertransference and perceived challenges in working with this client.
