Joseph Stephen
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Psychol Psychother. 2004 Mar;77(Pt 1):101-19. doi: 10.1348/147608304322874281.
In practice it is not unusual for client-centred therapists to work with people who have experienced traumatic events. However, client-centred therapy is not usually considered within texts on traumatic stress and questions have been raised over the appropriateness of client-centred therapy with trauma survivors. The present study shows how, although he was writing well before the introduction of the term 'post-traumatic stress disorder', Carl Rogers provided a theory of therapy and personality that contains an account of threat-related psychological processes largely consistent with contemporary trauma theory. Rogers' theory provides the conceptual underpinnings to the client-centred and experiential ways of working with traumatized people. Furthermore, Rogers' theory provides an understanding of post-traumatic growth processes, and encourages therapists to adopt a more positive psychological perspective to their understanding of how people adjust to traumatic events.
在实践中，以客户为中心的治疗师与经历过创伤事件的人合作并不罕见。然而，创伤应激相关的文本中通常不会考虑以客户为中心的疗法，并且有人对以客户为中心的疗法用于创伤幸存者的适用性提出了质疑。本研究表明，尽管卡尔·罗杰斯在“创伤后应激障碍”一词出现之前就进行了写作，但他提出了一种治疗和人格理论，其中包含了与威胁相关的心理过程的描述，这在很大程度上与当代创伤理论相一致。罗杰斯的理论为与受创伤者合作的以客户为中心和体验式方法提供了概念基础。此外，罗杰斯的理论提供了对创伤后成长过程的理解，并鼓励治疗师在理解人们如何适应创伤事件时采用更积极的心理学视角。
