The approach to psychotherapy used by Carl Rogers came to be known as person-centered therapy because:

a. therapists mostly spend time listening to patients talk about their lives in this approach.
c. it is the person himself and not the therapist who directs the change and improvement in personality.
b. it frequently involves looking at a person's early childhood experiences in order to discover how these events might have shaped the person.
d. the therapist persuades a person to change his or her thought patterns through multiple sessions in this approach.

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Carl Rogers originated a popular approach to psychotherapy known initially as non-directive or client-centered therapy, which later came to be called person-centered therapy. It tells us that the ability to change and improve personality is centered within the person. In other words, it is the person and not the therapist who directs such change. The therapist's role is to assist or facilitate the change.