Goals of Person centered counseling

The goals of person centered counseling center around the client as a person not his or her problem. Rogers 1977 emphasize that people need to be assisted in learning how to come with situations. One of the main ways to accomplish this is by helping a client become a fully functioning person who has no need to apply defense mechanisms to everyday experience. Such an individual becomes increasingly willing to change and grow. He or she is more open to experience, more trusting of self perception, and engaged in self exploration and evolution (Rogers 1961). Furthermore, a fully functioning person develops a greater acceptance of self and other and becomes a better decision maker in the here and now. Ultimately a client is helped to identify, use and integrate his or her own resources and potential (Boy & Pine 1983)