Practitioners such as Carl Rogers (and indeed many others) found behaviourism (and, indeed, psychiatry, and related medical model modalities) to be generally unfulfilling and unrewarding and claimed that they failed to take into account many traits that are unique to humans.
While CBT, as I described already, has far more potential to be attractive to very hurt people than behaviourism, and acknowledges and affirms the ability of humans to think, (and think symbolically), if we are truly person centred we meet people where they were at, ultimately giving the people who are looking for help the responsibility for their own healing, and promoting the notion that they have the strength, wisdom, awareness, insight and potential to change their world from within.
It also proposes that people have innate traits such as creativity, idealism, optimism, zeal, individuality, strong feelings, compassion, and ethical awareness that we attribute to being uniquely human, as well as the root foundations described in the Chapter on Universal Theories of Change.
Because of the principle of Unconditional Positive Regard, PCT also relieves us of the burden of labelling someone as stuck, a favourite label used by practitioners for people who are not changing for the better fast enough.
In fact, it will, instead, encourage us to look at our own stuckness in our expectations, core beliefs and values, and even expectations arising from external pressures.
That is, when we say someone is stuck, does it mean that someone is stopping me getting my job done?