NR605 Week 4
1. humanistic-existential approach: -foundational to psychiatric mental health
nursing
• central tenets of holism, self-actualization, and the therapeutic alliance
-places emphasis on understanding human experience
• focusing on the client rather than the symptom
-Interventions seek to increase client self-awareness and self-understanding
-Holistic
• assumes an interrelationship between the client's psychological, biological,
social, and spiritual dimensions
2. Humanism is often referred to as the in psychology:
"third force" in psychology
-after psychoanalysis and behaviorism
3. Humanism eventually gave way to a later force: :-
transpersonal psychotherapy
4. early forces of psychotherapy: Behaviorism
,-focuses on observable behavior
Psychoanalysis
-studies the unconscious mind
Humanistic-existential
-focuses on individual free will
5. Types of Humanistic—Existential Therapy: Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
6. Person- or Client-centered therapy: -Carl Rogers founded this
psychotherapy in the 1940s
role of the psychotherapist is to establish a therapeutic relationship
-using genuine understanding and acceptance
• client can discover and explore their reality.
-belief people are essentially trustworthy, have potential for self-
understanding & self-directed growth with support of a therapeutic
, relationship
-congruence (genuineness and realness)
-unconditional positive regard (acceptance and caring)
-accurate empathic understanding through skilled, active listening (perceiving
the client's subjective experience)
• Positive belief in human nature
• Self-concept (Self-worth, self-image, ideal self)
1. humanistic-existential approach: -foundational to psychiatric mental health
nursing
• central tenets of holism, self-actualization, and the therapeutic alliance
-places emphasis on understanding human experience
• focusing on the client rather than the symptom
-Interventions seek to increase client self-awareness and self-understanding
-Holistic
• assumes an interrelationship between the client's psychological, biological,
social, and spiritual dimensions
2. Humanism is often referred to as the in psychology:
"third force" in psychology
-after psychoanalysis and behaviorism
3. Humanism eventually gave way to a later force: :-
transpersonal psychotherapy
4. early forces of psychotherapy: Behaviorism
,-focuses on observable behavior
Psychoanalysis
-studies the unconscious mind
Humanistic-existential
-focuses on individual free will
5. Types of Humanistic—Existential Therapy: Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
6. Person- or Client-centered therapy: -Carl Rogers founded this
psychotherapy in the 1940s
role of the psychotherapist is to establish a therapeutic relationship
-using genuine understanding and acceptance
• client can discover and explore their reality.
-belief people are essentially trustworthy, have potential for self-
understanding & self-directed growth with support of a therapeutic
, relationship
-congruence (genuineness and realness)
-unconditional positive regard (acceptance and caring)
-accurate empathic understanding through skilled, active listening (perceiving
the client's subjective experience)
• Positive belief in human nature
• Self-concept (Self-worth, self-image, ideal self)
