Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred Rogers (review)

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-387
Author(s):  
Patricia Pace
Keyword(s):  
Fred Rogers

Hello, Neighbor: Carl and Fred Rogers and a Process of Person-centered Mentorship

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Childhood Exposure ◽  
Fred Rogers ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Though professionally unaware of each other, Carl and Fred Rogers had much–including religious upbringings, early career interests in child well-being, and primary aspects of their philosophies on life and human potential–in common. Carl Rogers became one of the most influential American psychologists to date, in formulating person-centered approaches to psychotherapy and life, and as a children’s television host Fred Rogers was–and has remained, in the eyes of generations of kids and adults alike over the last 50 some-odd years–in many ways perhaps the most exemplary late 20th century embodiment of Carl Rogers’ proposed way of being. Here, I–a mentor to motivated students in the meteorological and psychological sciences, and others in wider life–discuss my discovery of the person-centered approach, via childhood exposure to Fred Rogers; and provide perspective on the ways the person-centered approach can be utilized to foster more effective and meaningful mentorship and learning-based relationships.

Review of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred Rogers.

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1068-1068
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Fred Rogers

DR ROGERS, MEET MR ROGERS: THE THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL SIMILARITIES BETWEEN CARL AND FRED ROGERS

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward L. Palmer ◽  
Kendra Carr
Keyword(s):  
Programming Approach ◽  
Personality Theory ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Fred Rogers ◽  
Early Training

The article examines the striking conceptual similarities between the personality-theory approach of Dr Carl Rogers and the television-programming approach of Mr. Fred Rogers. Their similarities in background and early training, their basic concern for children, and their focusing on concepts of acceptance, feelings, sensitivity and growth-experience are examined and discussed.

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