Unconditional positive regard is not about liking someone. Unconditional positive regard (UPR) is the foundation stone of many of the psychotherapies. At first glance, it seems like a fairly simple ...

Scientists have a problem studying self-love. Research abounds on self-compassion, self-esteem, self-care, and even unconditional positive self-regard. Scholars have published definitions of these ...

Therapists of many stripes have long considered unconditional positive regard to be an essential element of a good therapeutic relationship. Initially popularized by Carl Rogers in the 1950s as a ...

We have reached the part in our psychotherapy class where we talked about Carl Rogers’ person-centered psychotherapy. As a humanistic approach, it starts with the basic assumption that humans have ...