Humanistic and Existential Paradigms (Week 2)

Question 1

Humanistic Paradigms

Answer 1

• does not say much about mechanisms or causation; key focus is insight
• assumption that disordered behaviour results from lack of insight and can be treated by increasing the individual’s awareness of motivation and needs
• therapy focused
• main influence is on intervention (help them get better)

Question 2

Carl Rogers’ Client-Centered Therapy

Answer 2

• emphasizes the client’s subjective experience and innate capacity for growth and self-healing
• therapist creates a safe, supportive environment
• Therapy is non-directive: the client leads the conversation, while the therapist listens and reflects
• Change happens through the client’s own insights and self-exploration rather than direct advice or interpretationW

Question 3

What are core values of Carl Rogers’ Client Centered Therapy

Answer 3

• empathy
• unconditional positive regard

Question 4

Primary empathy

Answer 4

• the therapist’s understanding, accepting, and communicating to the client what the client is thinking or feeling
• therapist conveys primary empathy by restating the client’s thoughts and feelings, pretty much in the client’s own words

Question 5

Advance empathy

Answer 5

• entails an inference by the therapist of the thoughts and feelings that lie behind what the client is saying, and of which the client may only be dimly, if at all, aware
• essentially involves an interpretation by the therapist of the meaning of what the client is thinking or feeling

Question 6

Unconditioned positive regard

Answer 6

• Therapist provides non-judgmental acceptance and support regardless of what the client says or does
• value people for just being people