Unconditional positive regard came about in 1956 while Carl Rogers was working as a clinical psychologist. His clients were mental health clinic patients, and to be specific, children.When I realized that these were the subjects Rogers was working with, the concept of unconditional positive regard suddenly made a lot more sense to me. Jessie Taft was a social worker who worked alongside Rogers, and she believed that relationships between patients and their therapists were where there was the most potential for positive influence. Developing client-centered therapy (also called Rogerian psychotherapy and person-centered therapy, among other terms) from this viewpoint led Rogers to develop four characteristics that were most important in treatment. I'm going to touch on each briefly. 1. Empathy Okay, we've talked about this one. You can listen to Audrey Hepburn talk about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=yOjL6baOwu0 2. Unconditional positive rega
I was five minutes into trying to figure out what the acronym stood for when I started to wonder which of Bolton's personality types made the DISC website. I later, after taking the personality test and trying to find out more about it, stumbled across their blog link and was able to find out more about it. Their foundation for the test came from Harvard psychologist William Moulton Marston and his theory that people develop self-concepts based on one of four factors: Dominance, Inducement, Steadiness, or Compliance. You can see how that is reflected in the actual elements that they chose to make up DISC in the graphic below. I took the 12 question test as I was curious as to what it would say my 'at work' style was (you can take the test here if you're so inclined: https://discpersonalitytesting). The questions reminded me a bit of Bolton's questions, but instead of basically being a true/false questionnare, you began to very clearly see exactly what result you w