Personzentriert sein – Sieben Herausforderungen der Zukunft: 20 Jahre PERSON und 30 Jahre nach Rogers’ Tod

Abstract

Being person-centered — Seven challenges for the future — 20 years PERSON and 30 years after Rogers’ death. The article outlines potentials of developing the person-centered concepts. Rogers himself has repeatedly claimed this. We suggest these perspectives: person-centered thinking may > integrate concepts of disorders into person-centered constructs and describe the actualizing tendency in a disorder specific way; > see both the need for self-actualization and for attachment as a basic anthropological characteristic of the person; > understand the symbolization of experiences more as a process of construction than of uncovering; > de-radicalize the idea of non-directivity; > more explicitly acknowledge the meaning of techniques of intervention alongside the client-centered core conditions and attitudes; > further develop the theory of pathology and change beyond the classical model of incongruence; > develop interventions for psychosocial problems and social work that pay more attention to a person’s interpersonal networks.