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Guidance and Counseling Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 14: Types of Counseling: Non-Directive

Counseling

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
14.1 Non-Directive Counseling : Concept
14.2 Characteristics of Non-Directive Counseling
14.3 Central Hypothesis of Non-Directive Counseling
14.4 Non-Directive Counseling Techniques
14.5 Roger’s Theory Postulates about Non-Directive Counseling
14.6 Summary
14.7 Keywords
14.8 Review Questions

14.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit students will be able to:
• Explain about concept of non directive counseling.
• Explain the characteristics of non directive counseling.
• Describe the Central hypotheses of non directive counseling.
• Discuss about the non directive counseling techniques.
• Describe the Roger’s theory postulates.

Introduction
In contrast to psychoanalysis, Carl Rogers, client-centred’ approach to counseling is more directly
related to the field of psychological counseling. He is acclaimed to be the initiator of the movement,
but as we have seen, some of his ideas were implicit in the Adlerian approach. The Rogerian system
emerged as a set of procedures in counseling from his intimate clinical observation.

Rogers did not present his approach as a systematic theroy untill 1947 when he
presented it in his Presidential address to the American Psychological Association.
The approach caught the attention of psychologists because it was related to
psychology more than to medicine.

The course of treatment proposed was relatively brief compared to that of psychoanalysis. The
major concepts of ‘client-centered’ theory thus do not arise from psychopathology. Its aim was not
to cure sick people but to help people live more satisfying and creative lives. Rogers was influenced

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