Relationship between Person-centered therapy and Occupational Stress in working women: a narrativeanalysis

Abstract

Person-centered therapy or Client-centered therapy emerged in 1940’s as a unique perspective of humanitarian psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers. He focused on mainly three core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for a favorable therapeutic relationship and environment – Congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy. This paper specifically studies the role of person-centered therapy as Basic Encounter Groups (hereafter will be referred as BEG) in resolving occupational stress of working women in Delhi- NCR region. This study focuses on the effect of the stress on women after they attended the regular BEG sessions and emphasizes the efficacy of BEG sessions. The results showcased that attending BEG sessions provide the female participants to delve deeper into their work-life balance issues facilitating them to accept their own present existence unconditionally which in turn is very facilitating in achieving and maintaining the normal mentalstate.