ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the six conditions necessary for positive therapeutic change: contact between client and therapist, the client's incongruence, the therapist's congruence, the therapist's unconditional positive regard, the therapist's empathic understanding and the client's perception of the conditions. The six necessary and sufficient conditions outlined by Carl Rogers describe the attitudinal qualities of the person-centred psychotherapist, their congruence, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. The chapter focuses on how the person-centred approach offers a different view of the education of therapists. In the person-centred approach, the therapeutic relationship matters as a way of transmitting unconditional acceptance. Person-centred and related therapies are based on the notion of going with the client's direction. As such it is often understood that the use of therapeutic techniques such as relaxation exercises is incompatible with the person-centred approach.
