Client Centered Therapy [CCT] and Person Centered Approach [PCA] are different.  CCT came first.  It was the root stock of PCA.  Carl Rogers described it in 1957 as necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change.

Carl, himself, moved beyond therapy.  He quit doing it.  He focused on world peace, education, personal power, personal partnerships and other applications.  He stopped doing therapy himself.  He would continue to train therapists.  He changed from Client-Centered Therapy to Person Centered Approach.  I notice that Brian Thorne in your journal noted Carl's shift in his later years.

In recent years, I have had the benefit of wise criticism, for which I am grateful.  The basis of criticism has been how closely my work adheres to the work of Carl Rogers.  Carl's work froze in many minds as he was in 1957, when he was at the height of his work in therapy.  My work is not in the realm of therapy.  It is in organizations.  The

therapeutic model of Carl does not work in this setting.  Relationships at work are not helping relationships.  In therapy, the client gives the therapist money.  In exchange, the therapist uses congruence, empathy, and unconditional positive regard on behalf of the client.  In organizational relationships, the person, the self uses congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard on behalf of the self, not on behalf of the other.

There is confusion in the legacy of psychologist, Carl Rogers.  He is the most influential psychologist of all time.  His psychological system is more widespread and has had more impact than any other.  This influence occurred without the support of any institution of our civilization, not government, not church, not education, not business, not family.  It was like Topsy, it "just growed."
The confusion is this.  Many folks use the terms

that he used [Client Centered Therapy and Person Centered Approach] interchangeably.

In the La Jolla conference room, in the early '70's, I watched Carl shift from the former to the latter.  No one else in the room shifted with him, including me.  We began to use the term, "Person Centered Approach."  We did not perceive his shift.  He moved from a special model for therapeutic relationships.  He turned to a general model for all relationships. His vision broadened.

However, the confusion remains.

On page six, a table compares Client Centered Therapy and Person Centered Approach.  Take a look at it for a while and then I will say more about it.
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