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NAME: CASTILLO, CRISTAL JOY B. TEACHER: ANAVIL LOU BOLANON

COURSE/YEAR: BsEd Values Education 2nd year DATE: 04/19/22

ARTICLE REVIEW ABOUT HUMANISTIC APPROACH AND PERSPECTIVES

ABSTRACT
Andrew M. Bland The humanistic perspective on personality
1 emphasizes the individualized qualities of
optimal well-being and the use of creative

and Eugene M. potential to benefit others, as well as the

relational conditions that promote those qualities

DeRobertis
as the outcomes of healthy development. The
humanistic perspective serves as an alternative
to mechanistic and/or reductionistic explanations
2,3 of personality based on isolated, static elements
of observable behavior (e.g., quantifiable traits)
1 or self-concept.

Millersville Keywords: Constructivist; Existential; Holistic;

Humanistic psychology Person-centered;

University, Phenomenological;
Force; Transpersonal
Self-actualization; Third

Millersville, PA, USA

2
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ, USA
3
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Andrew M. Bland
1
and Eugene M. DeRobertis
2,3
1
Millersville University, Millersville,
PA, USA
2
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ, USA
3
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Andrew M. Bland
1
and Eugene M. DeRobertis
2,3
1
Millersville University, Millersville,
PA, USA
2
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ, USA
3
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Andrew M. Bland
1
and Eugene M. DeRobertis
2,3
1
Millersville University, Millersville,
PA, USA
2
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ, USA
3
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
INFO

James M. Nelson

Andrew M. Bland 1 and Eugene M. DeRobertis 2,3

1 Millersville University, Millersville, PA, USA

2Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ, USA

3 Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1484-2

INTRODUCTION
of individuals as active participants in the life world –i.e., situated in sociocultural and
eco-psycho-spiritual contexts. From its inception, humanistic psychology has been “a

he humanistic
diverse amalgam of secular, theistic, individualistic, and communalistic strands”
(Schneider et al. 2015, pp. xviii–xix) in both its range of influences and its proponents.

perspective on Humanistic
The psychologistsperspective
humanistic contend that

personality
personality the
emphasizes formation is an ongoing
individualized process
qualities
ofmotivated
optimal well-being
by the and the use
need for of relative
creative potential
integration, to by
guided benefit others, aschoice,
intentionality,
empha- well
the as
promote
the relational
hierarchical ordering
those qualities
ever- expanding
conditions
of values,that
and an
consciousas awareness.
the

sizes the outcomes

Rather
of healthy
than conceptualize
intersubjective,
development.
Humanistic psychologists employ an
personality
empathic approach in their
astherapeutic
a fixed structure, set of quantifiable
individualized
and research practices to
traits,
understandorthe lived self-concept,
experiences it
Andrew M. Bland
1
and Eugene M. DeRobertis
2,3
1
Millersville University, Millersville,
PA, USA
2
Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ, USA
3
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
REVIEW (OVERVIEW) ARTICLE

The humanistic perspective began as an CRITICAL REVIEW

alternative to the limitations of and
disparities between experimentalism
In general, humanistic
/behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It both
psychology argues for a weak
subsumed the strengths and transcended
interpretation of transcendence, an
the limitations of those traditions by using
individualistic and subjective view
intersubjective methods to develop a
of the human person and anti-
growth-/process-oriented conceptualization
traditionalist views of religion
of personality that had been inadequately
(Sutich, 1969)
available in the field. The three most
prominent founders of the movement were
Carl Rogers (1902–1987), the existential
psychologist Rollo May (1909–1994), and
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970). In general,
the strengths of humanistic psychology
include its innovativeness and its degree of
influence on psychology and society. Its
limitations involve its focus on individuality,
which renders it incompatible with the
natural science model valued by
conventional psychologists as well as prone
to associations with its problematic popular
implementation by the 1960s–1970s
counterculture and to accusations of
Western bias. However, these criticisms
REFERENCES: (Bland et.al,2017). The Humanistic Perspective in Psychology. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315761695_The_Humanistic_Perspective_in_Psychology

Nelson, James N. (2009). Psychology, Religion and Spirituality. Retrieved April 19. 2022.
https://books.google.com.ph/books/about/Psychology_Religion_and_Spirituality.html?id=4LNpzTDl5FEC&redir_esc=y