What is the title of Carl Rogers' second book in the 1950s that influenced the shift toward humanistic, nondirective orientation?

• A. Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory
• B. On Becoming a Person
• C. A Way of Being
• D. The Structure of Psychological Revolutions

Answer: (A)

This item hinges on identifying the publication that most clearly launched the client-centered, nondirective approach in psychology. Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory, published in the early 1950s, is the work that formally presents Rogers’ nondirective stance and the idea that the therapist’s role is to provide a supportive, empathic climate—enabling clients to access their own resources and growth. This book helped catalyze the humanistic movement by shifting focus from directing or interpreting the client to facilitating the client’s internal process.

The other titles fit different times or topics: On Becoming a Person came later in 1961 and expands on the same ideas, A Way of Being is from the 1980s, and The Structure of Psychological Revolutions is not about therapy at all.