The techniques a therapist uses are less important than his or her attitudes. The need for clients to relive past traumatic situations in the here and now, a fixed and completed approach to therapy, a set of techniques to build trust in clients, to begin therapy with a comprehensive lifestyle assessment, the challenge clients to examine their past, to be skillfully confront clients when they engage in self0destruction behaviors, to be his or real self in the relationship with the client, a clearly defined contract that specifies what clients will talk about in the sessions, it has not been subjected to rigorous research, therapists use vigorous confrontation methods, there can be a tendency to give too much support and not enough challenge, May be difficult to adapt in a manner that is consistent with con cultural frameworks, Represent universal human needs and are well suited to multicultural counseling, uses techniques and exercises to motivate the group, facilitates the direction of the group discussion, private colleges aimed at training person centered therapist, personal growth groups and encounter groups, the National Training laboratories and T-groups, Registration and certification of person centered counselors, congruence, conditional acceptance, faith in a client, congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, Total love and caring, therapist transparency, and empathy, Realness, objectively viewing the clients world, full acceptance, Commitment, compassion, and confrontation, Stated his concepts as testable hypotheses and submitted them to research, Literally opened the field for psychotherapy research, Inspired others to conduct extensive research on counseling process and outcomes, the hypothesized necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change, comparing the outcome of person centered therapy with other models, Modify their perceptions of themselves, others, and the world, Increase their confidence in making choices and in pursuing a course of action, not enough emphasis is given to understand the world of a client who is different from the counselor, some clients may expect a more structured approach, the heavy reliance on therapeutic techniques, the emphasis on collectivism instead of individualism, the creative process is inherently healing, Engaging in expressive art forms connects us to our unconscious, personal growth is facilitated by self awareness, the focus on creating a collaborative spirit, the focus on building genuine relationship among members. a. - Miriam Polster