What did Rogers say about therapist congruence?

a. It is important for the counselor to be totally open with the client.
b. The counselor must present him or herself as a blank slate.
c. Some of the counselor’s thoughts simply aren’t useful in the therapy process, so the counselor uses judgment about which thoughts to verbalize to the client.
d. Because the relationship with the client is so important, the therapist keeps to him or herself anything that might hurt the client’s feelings.
e. It is particularly easy to share with children only what you want them to know as they are not so sophisticated as to sense when you are saying something that is untrue.


Answer: c

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