[SOLVED] Skills Paper The Facilitative Conditions

LEHMAN COLLEGE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
UNDERGRADUATE SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM
SWK 312 SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE II
Skills Paper: The Facilitative Conditions
The skills paper is about the facilitative conditions (see Chapter 5 in Hepworth).
Watch the videos of Carl Rogers interviewing Gloria on YouTube and identify, describe, and
discuss the use of five facilitative conditions as outlined in Hepworth, Chapter 5. The interview
consists of a total of five different videos, listed below. .
At YouTube’s home page type: Carl Rogers and Gloria in the search box and you should see the
5-part video (posted by an esterbronner3).
Carl Rogers and Gloria Counselling-Parts 1,2,3,4,5 (You Tube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkUqcqRChg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m30jsZx_Ngs



The paper should be two to three pages (double spaced, twelve point font, 1” margins) in which
you will indicate the facilitative skill used and present evidence for your observation. Please
reference the time of the event (using the clock on the video) and/or describe what occurs
between Rogers and Gloria that makes it a facilitative condition.
This assignment is worth 10% of your course grade.
Due Date: 3/26/22
Unconditional positive regard involves showing complete support and acceptance of a person no
matter what that person says or does. The therapist accepts and supports the client, no matter
what they say or do, placing no conditions on this acceptance. That means the therapist supports
the client, whether they are expressing “good” behaviors and emotions or “bad” ones.1
Congruence: Congruence is the most important attribute, according to Rogers. This implies
that the therapist is real and/or genuine, open, integrated and authentic during their interactions
with the client.
Empathy See their world through their eyes. Empathy is our effort to experience someone else’s
reality, no matter how different from ours, as if it were our own. At one level, this is obviously
impossible, but the willingness to try, to be on the same wavelength, to set aside one’s own
response to have some feeling of that of another, seems to be a vital part of helping.
Respect or Non-possessive Warmth- Respect for another does not mean that we may not abhor
their actions, but that we try to see their human value as separate from that, and deal with them
with warmth and acceptance.
Authenticity and Genuineness – Calls for therapists to be themselves, and to interact authentically
and sincerely with their clients