Humanistic/Existential- 3rd Wave

Question 1

Key Names

Answer 1

Maslow: hierarchy of needs

Carl Rogers: Client/Person-Centered

Existential: Rollo May, Viktor Frankl, Irvin Yalom

Gestalt: Fritz Perls

EFT: Sue Johnson, Greenburn

Question 2

Key Tenets of Humanistic and Existentialism

Answer 2

Humanistic: Acceptance and Growth

Existentialism: Responsibility and Freedom

Question 3

Humanistic Principles

Answer 3

People are basically good, tend toward self-actualization

Relationships built on acceptance, caring, trust and respect promote mental health

Question 4

Client/Person-Centered Therapy

Answer 4

1) Empathic Understanding
2) Unconditional Positive Regard
3) Congruence (genuineness, blank screen)

Therapist Reflection is key in this process

Question 5

Existential

Answer 5

Rollo May, Viktor Frankl, Irv Yalom

Goal: help individuals live authentic lives

Themes

Death: can’t leave death to the dying
Freedom: terrifying responsibility
Isolation: primary source of anxiety
Fellow Traveler: in this together

Question 6

Existential Names

Answer 6

Irv Yalom: first textbooks on existentialism, Here and Now, Fellow travelers

Rollo May: goal of therapy is freeing oneself from limits of human existence.
Meaning anxiety

Viktor Frankl: Man’s search for meaning, logotherapy

Question 7

Gestalt

Answer 7

Fritz Perls

Contact: Here and Now

Conscious Awareness: Awareness of awareness

Experimentation: trying something new

• Refers to perceptual whole
• Holism- humans inherently self-regulating, growth-oriented, persons and symptoms can not be understood apart from environment
• Field Theory: Always In relationship with environment
• Awareness: Bringing into the moment

Question 8

Gestalt Therapist Role and Goals

Answer 8

• Closure- need to complete unfinished figures
• Proximity- organize visual stimuli based on distance from each other
• Similarity- group elements that appear similar

-Boundaries: edge of my field and yours

• Individual Awareness
• Contact- relational Experience that feels alive
• Achieve integration
• Opposing forces: love and hate, top dog/ underdog
• Mature and grow up
• Focus On language

Question 9

EFT- Emotion Focused Therapy

Answer 9

Sue Johnson, Greenberg

• Lots of creativity, not as organized but there is a plan
• Couples therapy
• Primary and secondary Emotions
• Slow down time find patterns and rhythms
• Have to feel things in order to change them
• Attachment is important