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Humanistic Humanistic Therapy Therapy: Group 4

The document discusses key aspects of humanistic therapy, including its focus on self-actualization, growth, and helping clients free themselves from limiting attitudes. It describes Carl Rogers' person-centered approach and core conditions of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness. The document also reviews techniques like reflection, motivational interviewing principles, positive psychology interventions, and emotionally focused therapy.

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Humanistic Humanistic Therapy Therapy: Group 4

The document discusses key aspects of humanistic therapy, including its focus on self-actualization, growth, and helping clients free themselves from limiting attitudes. It describes Carl Rogers' person-centered approach and core conditions of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness. The document also reviews techniques like reflection, motivational interviewing principles, positive psychology interventions, and emotionally focused therapy.

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HUMANISTIC

THERAPY
MANINGULA, PADILLA, DELLOSA

Group 4
LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the chapter student's would be able to:


1. Understand the Phenomenological and Humanistic-


Existential Perspectives.

2. Identify it's Major Features.

3. Recognize techniques used by Existential Therapist.


LENALYN

HUMANISTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

The humanistic therapist focuses on helping people free


themselves from disabling assumptions and attitudes so
they can live fuller lives. The therapist emphasizes growth
and self-actualization rather than curing diseases or
alleviating disorders.
An approach to psychotherapy focusing on your individual
nature as a human, instead of your position with classes,
groups of people, or among peers with similar problems.
LENALYN

HUMANISTIC APPROACH
SELF ACTUALIZATION

POSITIVE REGARD

PRIZING
LENALYN

GOAL OF HUMANISTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPHY

The primary goal of humanistic psychotherapy is to


foster self- actualization.

fullfillment of personal environment.


free from threat (psycholophysically)
LENALYN

REAL SELF IDEAL SELF

The ideal self is the part of It is a part of the self that is


a person's self-concept highly prized by the individual;
that consists of their thus, the ideal self is
desires, hopes, and wishes considered to be a motivator
(Higgins 1987; Rogers within a person's self-concept
1959). (Higgins 1987; Rogers 1959).
CORE
CONDITIONS

LENALYN
NECESSARY AND
SUFFICIENT?
Rogers described empathy, UPR, and genuineness as the
three core conditions for successful psychotherapy.

Rogers's assertion that these three elements are both


necessary and sufficient for successful psychotherapy has
generated a significant amount of controversy and research.
NECESSARY AND
SUFFICIENT?
They are best understood as a prerequisite for good therapy,
a set of conditions that may be enough to facilitate
significant improvement in some clients.
THERAPIST ATTITUDES, NOT
BEHAVIORS

Humanists balk at formulaic, mechanical approaches to


therapy, and, as such, they tend not to offer many specific
suggestions about what therapists should do with clients.
REFLECTION: AN IMPORTANT
THERAPIST RESPONSE

Reflection takes place when a therapist responds to a


client by rephrasing or restating the client’s statements in
a way that highlights the client’s feelings or emotions
(Campbell, 2004).
LOOKING IN A MAGNIFYING MIRROR,
UNDERSTAND REFLECTION

The therapist provides the client with feedback about the


client's emotions.

The emotional mirroring by humanistic therapists can highlight


emotions about which clients may not have been fully aware
and about which they may not feel entirely comfortable
HISTORICAL ALTERNATIVES

Existential Psychotherapy

Gestalt Therapy
MOTIVATIONAL
INTERVIEWING
A therapy that has amassed significant empirical
evidence
and widespread influence on the field—is
motivational interviewing (MI), developed by
William Miller. Miller describes his MI approach
to therapy as a revised application of basic
humanistic principles (Hettema, Steele, & Miller,
2005; Miller & Rose, 2009).
MOTIVATIONAL
INTERVIEWING

MI can be used to augment other kinds of therapy,


especially as a “jump-start” at the outset.
THE CENTRAL
PRINCIPLES OF MI
Expressing empathy

Developing the discrepancy

Avoiding argumentation

Rolling with resistance


THE CENTRAL
PRINCIPLES OF MI

Identifying “sustain talk” and “change talk"

Supporting self-eficacy.
POSITIVE INTERVENTIONS
AND STRENGTH-BASED
COUNSELING
The positive psychology
movement, which emerged in the
1990s under the leadership of
Martin Seligman and expanded
rapidly in the 2000s, overlaps
with some of the fundamental
underpinnings of humanism.
Positive psychology is a
broad-based approach that
emphasizes human strengths
rather than pathology, and
cultivation of happiness in
addition to reduction of
symptoms in psychotherapy
(Duckworth, Steen, &
Seligman, 2005; Seligman,
2011).
7 BASIC CATEGORIES OF POSITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY
Savoring
Gratitude
Kindness
Empathy
Optimism
Strength-based activities
Meaning
EMOTIONALLY
FOCUSED THERAPY
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is a short-term
humanistic therapy that has garnered significant
empirical evidence and popularity in recent years. It
emphasizes the expression, acknowledgment, and
healing power of emotions in the present moment, as
well as emotions that may have been “bottled up” for a
long time.
OTHER CONTEMPORARY
ALTERNATIVES

Another modern adaptation of humanism


has been developed by Arthur Bohart and
Karen Tallman. The title of the book in
which they describe their approach—How
Clients Make Therapy Work: The Process of
Active Self Healing—illustrates its emphasis
(Bohart & Tallman, 1999).
THANK
YOU!

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