POST MID PROJECT

HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY

SUBMITTED BY :
MOMMNA TANVEER
HUDA MEHREEN
MARYAM KASHIF
IMAAN ASHFAQ
USWA AMIR
MINAHIL RIZWAN
SUBMITTED TO: MAAM SONIA NAEEM
SECTION: B
SEMESTER: 1
MAJOR: APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 9th NOVEMBER, 2022
KINNAIRD COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
MARYAM KASHIF
Characteristics of Humanistic psychology:
One of the greatest strengths of humanistic psychology is that it emphasis individual choices and
responsibility, means it helps to understand a person’s value, his self respect, purpose of life, his preferences
and fulfillment of needs.
Humanistic psychology provides researchers a wide area a flexible framework, for observing human
behaviour because it considers a person in the context of his environment and in conjunction with his
personal perceptions and feelings. There are several a defective which makes humanistic psychology
different from other fields of psychology.
It includes emphasis on subjective meaning, a rejection of determinants and concern for positive growth
rather than pathology. While one might argue that some psychodynamic theories provide a vision of human
growth.
Many psychologists believe that behaviour can be understood objectively but the humanist argued that
this result in conducting that an individual is incapable of understanding there own behaviour Now we will
talk about humanistic therapy and its benefits

Humanistic therapy:
Humanistic therapy adapts a holistic approach that focuses of freewill ,human potential, increases the human
exploration ability. It aims on helping us to develop a strong and healthy sense of self explorer feeling find
meaning and focus on your strength. It is based on assumptions on helping people explore their hidden
qualities, hidden talent, through various types of tests and talk therapy.
It tells us why people need free will? what people feel in what situation? Basically humanistic psychology
and humanistic therapy both go hand in hand to get common modes to acomplish common goals. This
therapy allows people to talk freely about anything without any hestation. Therapies are conducted in such a
way that the patient should feel comfortable and environment should be made easy that patient could tell
you anything.
It also tells people to discover their authentic selves, to find solution to various problems in concerns in
the process. Therapist have to be kind of respectable listener who listens to the problems of patients
attentively without giving any turn or any twist in the conversation or by giving any distraction or by
cutting of the talk.
Humanistic psychologist use various type of therapies in it such as unstructured interviews and
observational methods.
Some important keywords for humanistic therapy are acceptance and growth which clearly means , it
guides to accept the reality and to move on in some cases.
Humanistic therapy also involves a core belief that people are good at heart abd incapable of making the
right choices for themselves. For example they cannot make a right decision and they need your help to
reach a find a right solution. If you don’t hold yourself in high regards, it’s harder to develop your full
potential.

Unstructured interviews:
The un structured interview basically means to ask questions from the patient and patient answers them
freely without any hesitation and numbering of the questions can be changed according to the ease of the
patient. It helps to understand the free will of the patient and how he feels presently.

Observational method:
Observational methods include to observe the person in a nature or in a lab to see what type of reactions a
person shows.

Types of humanistic therapies:

Client centred technique:
It uses active listening technique. The therapist listens and acknowledges, paraphrase your
concerns. This therapy technique believes in the idea of providing a supportive environment
in which you can feel comfortable and have ease and a non judgemental environment is
created the patient is given full trust.
It is also based on the idea of absorbing criticism and disapproval from others that can
destort the way you see yourself. The blocks of personal growth to fulfill life goals.
The client centered therapist will unconditionally accept you even if they disagree with
some acceptance of your behaviour feeling accepted in therapy, no matter what you share,
can help you avoid holding back and to move on.

Gesalt therapy:
It focuses on the skills and techniques that allows you to be aware of your feeling and
emotion. For example, it tells at what reaction to show in what situation.
It also helps us to solve unsolved distrubing conflicts which causes trouble. Gesalt therapy
provides the state of safe emergency, where you can explore in the present moment the
things bothering you. You can omit those things from your life to move on. For example,
you might exlore the belief that your opinions don’t matter to your partner. And you will try
to solve the conflict between you and your partner by sometime listening to their opinion and
sometime telling them to follow your opinion.

Existential therapy:
It aims on searching goals in achieving boards and learning of life. what we want to become
in future? what are your future goals? and how to accomplish them through good deeds.
Existential therapist also helps us to understand the reason why we exist means its tells us
the purpose, meaning of life how to achieve something with the guidance of therapist. We
learn to accept responsibility for choices you make and realize the freedom you have to make
changes that will give you and your life a grateful meaning.

Humanistic therapy can help us to reduce:

1- Depression
2- Anxiety exam stress
3- Personality disorders
4- Addiction can be of any thing drugs etc.
5- Relationship issues sudden death if one parent, seperation, breakups.
6- Trauma can be childhood trauma as well.
7- Alcholism any person who drink
Alot of alchohol.
Impact of humanistic psychology:

Emerging in the late 1950’s humanistic psychology began as a reaction against the two school of thought
then dominating american psychology. The early humanistic psychologist used to sought and restore the
importance of consciousness and offered a more holistic view of human life.
In 1964 many humanistic psychologists gathered from all around the world and came in Old Say brook,
Conn, to consolidate their movement. Over the next decade humanistic psychology’s ideas informed the
civil rights, women’s liberation and anti war movements and gained widespread popularity in the wider
culture. The humanistic movement has a very positive enormous influence on the lives of people. New fields
of humanism begin to open in academics as well.
It forced people to think more realistically and to think more carefully about their mental health. Now a
day, It is offering new ways to people which helps them understand human behaviour and motivation that
led to the development of new techniques and was a positive step towards psychotherapy.
Some of the major concepts that emerged as a result of humanistic psychology movement are:
1. Client centered therapy
2. Free will
3. Fully functioning person
4. Hierarchy of needs
5. Peak experiences
6. Self actualization
7. Self concept
8. Unconditioning postive regard

Client centered therapy:

This technique was developed by Carl Rogers in 1950 and 1960s. It involves such a therapy in which a
client is the centre of attraction. The therapist does the therapy in such a way that the clients will feel
comfortable to share anything openly and honestly. He tries to hide nothing and to open up his thoughts
in front of the therapist.

Free will:
It is an idea in which we can play an active role and have choice and how we behave. The assumption is
that individuals are free to choose their behaviours and ourself determined.

Fully functioning person:

A fully functioning person is the one who is in touch with his or her deepest innermost feelings and
desires.
The remaining therapies are explained by my group members.
Louis Hoffman:

Louis Hoffmann is a leading contemporary voice in the existential humanistic psychology and therapy. He is
a licensed psychologist practicing in the colorado springs CO. Doctor Hoffman is the Co founder of the
International Institute of existential humanistic psychology and the International Conference on existential
psychology. He has written over 20 books.
He is the executive director of the Rocky Mountain humanistic counselling and psychological association.
Doctor Hoffman took approaches to multiculturalism and diversity. Doctor hoffman the 2020-2021
recipent of Rollo may award. This division 32 award was given to an individual for being independent and
outstanding pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology from the society for humanistic psychology.
In addition to his teaching practice doctor hoffman serves on abroad humanitarian align there such
institutions in which humanities promoted like old homes char protection centres.

Rocky Mountain Humanistic Councelling and psychological Association:

This institution was found in 2016 to promote and develop humanistic existential and transpersonal
psychology. In Rocky Mountain It especially contributes to psychotherapy philosophy of education.

Existential psycotherapy:
Existential psychotherapy helps clients discovered their own uniqueness through acquiring greater
awareness of themselves and the world around them. The therapist guides the clients to understand why they
exist? he motivates them by explaining the aim of their life.
Its main goals are to develop capacity for self awareness and freedom. It helps not to stress out in to
accept the reality. Existentialist is interested in helping the client find physiological meaning in the face of
anxiety by choosing to think and act authentically and responsibility.
According to the existential therapy the central problems faced by people depression, loneliness, anxiety,
stress, household problems, family problems and relationship problems. Every person faces losses in life it
does not mere means to give up and to stay away from everyone. It takes sometime to forget those losses to
heal up and then to stand up but then everything becomes right.
The existential therapist recognises the that human influence is shaped in biology, culture and luck. These
therapies address factors shaping substance abuse disorders, such as the lacking in the meaning of life, fear
of death et.c. These therapies can add up for the client dimension of self respect, self motivation and self
growth that will better facilitate their treatment. The main goal is to help people to move on overcome their
past and to focus on their present by changing their present, by bringing changes in their present through
various components such as love, honesty, loyalty and sincerity.
Transpersonal psychology:
Transpersonal psychology is a field or school of thought in psychology that is centered on the spiritual
aspects of human life. The term draws personal was introduced in the 1960 by the psychologists such as
Abraham Maslow. It is a label for a type of psychological theory that embraces a wide variety of ideas that
have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with mind and behaviour.
Transpersonal psychologist attempt to intergrate timeless wisdom with modern western psychology to
create a combination and to translate the spiritual principles into reality and scientific experiences.
Transpersonal psychology addresses the full spectrum of human psycho spiritual development from our
deepest wounds.

Reasearch areas:
1. Music therapy
2. Guided and visualisation
3. Peak experiences
4. Near death experiences
5. Para psychology
6. Medication
7. Spirituality and psychology

Multiculturalism:
Multiculturalism is the subject of multiple geographical interpretation. Itis the first identified
approach in humanistic psychology. In particular, multiculturalism refers to the existence of the
difference and uneven power relations among populations in terms of racial, ethnic, religious,
geographical distinctions and other cultural markers that deviate from dominant often rationalised ‘
norms”.
Based on the acknowledgement of diversity, multiculturalism also refers to formal recognition and
inter corporation of those defined by such differences through policies and discourses that
acknowledge the rights and needs of monitorized groups within the public realm.
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