Client Centered Therapy and Counseling
I particularly enjoyed studying Rogers and his theory about client centered therapy. For as long as I could remember, I always thought about counseling and therapy as a setting where the therapist controlled the conversation and directed the client toward the goal of therapy, which a lot of different kinds of therapies do. But in reading about Rogers, I really liked that he put the goal of therapy and how to get there in the client’s hands. Most people don’t like being told what to do or how to do it, since that it human nature to an extent, and client centered therapy gives them that reign of control for themselves. I went through therapy myself when I was younger for some family issues, but the therapist was always directing our sessions and I always felt like I wasn’t in charge of anything. They even told me how I was supposed to feel on some occasions. (That I vaguely remember because it was about 6 years ago) But I feel as though if I had gone through some type of therapy like Rogers described in his theory, I would have had a better experience than I did.
Lacy Hanson on Descartes' Innate Ideas
8:00 pm, 02.20.11
I really like these ideas and thoughts on the work of Decartes. He definitely had some interesting thoughts and ideas about why we exist. “I think therefore I am” is definitely a thought worth contemplating. If you do think about it, he did have a point.
Lacy Hanson on A Day In The Home of Benjamin Franklin
7:40 pm, 02.20.11
I like these ideas a lot. I agree with the idea that your environment shapes who you are, but not to the point where it defines you entirely. Having grown up in somewhat of a downcast situation myself, I would be expected to be a negative and disenfranchised person, yet I’m not. I take life in stride and try to keep a positive outlook on my future. So, the mold can’t be applied to every person in particular, but in general the idea that the environment makes the person is a very valid idea.
Lacy Hanson on Views of Happiness?
6:17 pm, 02.02.11
I think you’re right in saying that we can fulfill our life’s purpose without being old or dying. For all we know, our purpose could be just talking to someone who needed a helping hand…or simply living. We can never know our true purpose in life until after we’re gone. I also like how you use the belief that happiness is just a shadow and apply it to Christianity because that is true. Happiness is there for a moment and fades with time. But I must also add that happiness isn’t just one moment, it’s a series of moments in life that come and go.
Lacy Hanson on Reason
6:09 pm, 02.02.11
I really like how you put Plato’s beliefs and compared them to Christianity, which is essentially believing in the unseen, untouchable, and “irrational”. Faith is a large part of our lives as Christians, but we must also have the reason that Plato speaks of. It’s like the two sides of the yin and yang…neither can live without the other.
Lacy Hanson on Plato and Aristotle: The Relationship of Teacher and Student
6:05 pm, 02.02.11
I totally agree with how you’ve said that Aristotle took what he learned from Plato as a student and developed his own thoughts and beliefs based on that. As students, we sometimes forget that we’re allowed to think and have our own beliefs in a classroom too since we often feel like the teacher is “king/queen” of the classroom and we’re just students. I think that we should start to speak up in classes and have discussions with professors, like Aristotle probably did with Plato, rather than be passive listeners.