Humanistic Therapy

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Introduced the client-centered therapy.

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Carl Rogers

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Developed a hierarchy of needs culminating in self-actualization.

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Abraham Maslow

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Emphasizes an individual’s capacity for self-actualization and personal growth, rejecting deterministic views of human behavior.

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Humanistic Therapy

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Aim to consider the whole person, especially their positive characteristics and potential for growth, not only from their professional viewpoint but from a client’s own personal sense of their behavior.

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Humanistic Therapists

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Brought European existential psychotherapy and phenomenology into the field by acknowledging human choice and the tragic aspects of human existence

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Rollo May

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Developed gestalt therapy in his workshops and training programs at the Esalan Institute and elsewhere.

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Fritz Perls

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Focuses on the realization of existential truths, such as the inevitability of aloneness and death, which can lead to anxiety and meaninglessness; pioneered by Rollo May, Victor Frankl, and Irvin Yalom.

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Existential Therapy

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Takes a holistic approach to enhancing the client’s current experience by integrating mental and physical perceptions; founded by Fritz Perls.

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Gestalt Therapy

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(Also called person-centered therapy or PCT).
An approach based on the premise that self-discovery and fulfillment can happen with an empathetic therapist that unconditionally accepts and understands you.

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CLIENT- CENTERED THERAPY

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THREE ESSENTIAL THERAPEUTIC CONDITIONS:

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• EMPATHY
• UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD
• GENUINENESS

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The primary goal of humanistic psychotherapy

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To foster self-actualization.

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Used to explore ambivalence and enhance motivation for change, particularly in the context of addictive behaviors and health-related decisions.

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MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING

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Four Processes in Motivational Interviewing

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i. Engaging
ii. Focusing
iii. Evoking
iv. Planning

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Emerged in the 1990s under the leadership of Martin Seligman and has expanded rapidly in the 2000s, overlaps with some of the fundamental underpinnings of humanism.

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Positive psychology movement

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The father of positive psychology.

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Martin Seligman

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A broad-based approach that emphasizes human strengths rather than pathology, and cultivation of happiness in addition to reduction of symptoms in psychotherapy.

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Positive Psychology

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Therapies that derive from positive psychology go by a variety of names, but they are most often labeled as?

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Positive interventions or strength-based counseling

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Allows clients to play a role in their treatment. Regardless of a person’s condition, humanistic therapy can help a person learn effective coping skills and problem-solving for everyday challenges.

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Humanistic therapy