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<blockquote class="definition">In Rogers’ person-centered / [[Client-centered Therapy]], the '''Growth Hypothesis''' is the working assumption that most (and likely all) people possess inherent “growth forces”—an actualizing tendency toward development, integration, and more mature functioning—and that, when a sufficiently facilitative climate is present, people can find their own next steps toward healthier, more reality-congruent ([[Aligned]] and [[Connection|Connected]]) living without the therapist directing them through advice, interpretation, or persuasion. Rogers later clarified that “unaided” does not mean “without relationship,” but rather without directive interventions; the growth-promoting climate is precisely what releases this capacity
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==Concept Map==

===Carl Rogers Terms===

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==Quotes==

"...in most if not all individuals there exist growth forces, tendencies toward self-actualization, which may act as the sole motivation for therapy. . . . The individual has the capacity and the strength to devise, quite unaided, the steps which will lead him to a more mature and more comfortable relationship to his reality."<ref>------- . “Significant Aspects of Client-Centered Therapy,” American Psychologist, 1 (1946), 415—422. </ref>

"Contrary to those therapists who see depravity at men’s core, who see men’s deepest instincts as destructive, I have found that when man [sic] is truly free to become what he most deeply is, free to actualize his [sic] nature as an organism capable of awareness, then he [sic] clearly appears to move toward wholeness and integration. "<ref>Rogers, Carl. “Client-Centered Therapy.” In ''Car Rogers: Dialogues'', edited by Howard Kirschenbaum and Valerie Land Henderson. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. p. 27.</ref>
 
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