Four-year-old Brooke throws a tantrum when her parents want to leave the playground and go home. Instead of punishing her, Brook
e's parents patiently and lovingly try to teach Brooke a more acceptable way of coping with disappointment and frustration. Using Carl Rogers's terminology, Brooke is experiencing a high degree of_ from her parents. A) unconditional positive regard B) conditional positive regard C) incongruence D) reciprocal determinism
Carl Rogers' is considered the founder of the humanistic approach of psychotherapy.
One of the main concepts of his approach is the "unconditional positive regard" that is defined as the total and unconditional acceptance of the other person no matter the acts or behaviors that this person does. In other words, we accept the person no matter what his/her actions are.
In this example, Brooke threw a tantrum but instead of punishing her, her parents lovingly tried to teach her a more acceptable way of coping with frustration. We can see that, <u>no matter what Brooke actions were (the tantrum) her parents still show love and support of her.</u> Therefore, this would be an example of unconditional positive regard.
