NR605 WEEK 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ELABORATIONS!!
humanistic-existential approach
answers: -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
Humanism is often referred to as the ___________ in psychology
answers: "third force" in psychology
-after psychoanalysis and behaviorism
Humanism eventually gave way to a later force: ___________________
answers: transpersonal psychotherapy
early forces of psychotherapy
answers: Behaviorism
-focuses on observable behavior
,Psychoanalysis
-studies the unconscious mind
Humanistic-existential
-focuses on individual free will
Types of Humanistic—Existential Therapy
answers: Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Person- or Client-centered therapy
answers: -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)
• Actualizing tendency
• Fully functioning person
goal of person-centered therapy
answers: assist the client to become a fully functioning person
-role of the person-centered psychotherapist
• provide client with unconditional positive regard to help facilitate change
• Using congruence, acceptance, and empathy
Person- or Client-centered therapy indications
answers: -useful modality for individuals, groups, and families
-effective in addressing a range of client problems
• anxiety disorders, substance abuse disorders, psychosomatic problems,
agoraphobia, interpersonal difficulties, personality disorders
• often used in crisis interventions such as illness or the death of a loved one
• recently demonstrated (+) outcomes with autism, transgender & gender diverse
clients
Techniques used in person-centered psychotherapy
answers: -nondirective-facilitative counseling
-congruence, unconditional positive regard
ELABORATIONS!!
humanistic-existential approach
answers: -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
Humanism is often referred to as the ___________ in psychology
answers: "third force" in psychology
-after psychoanalysis and behaviorism
Humanism eventually gave way to a later force: ___________________
answers: transpersonal psychotherapy
early forces of psychotherapy
answers: Behaviorism
-focuses on observable behavior
,Psychoanalysis
-studies the unconscious mind
Humanistic-existential
-focuses on individual free will
Types of Humanistic—Existential Therapy
answers: Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Person- or Client-centered therapy
answers: -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)
• Actualizing tendency
• Fully functioning person
goal of person-centered therapy
answers: assist the client to become a fully functioning person
-role of the person-centered psychotherapist
• provide client with unconditional positive regard to help facilitate change
• Using congruence, acceptance, and empathy
Person- or Client-centered therapy indications
answers: -useful modality for individuals, groups, and families
-effective in addressing a range of client problems
• anxiety disorders, substance abuse disorders, psychosomatic problems,
agoraphobia, interpersonal difficulties, personality disorders
• often used in crisis interventions such as illness or the death of a loved one
• recently demonstrated (+) outcomes with autism, transgender & gender diverse
clients
Techniques used in person-centered psychotherapy
answers: -nondirective-facilitative counseling
-congruence, unconditional positive regard
