Lecture 9

1. Humanistic Approach • Chapters 3 and 5 Lecture 9

2. Types of HS Theories • Antideterministic View Has Belief in the Ability of the Individual to Change • Deterministic View Asserts That There is Little Ability for the Person to Change • Early Childhood, Biology, Genetics Determine Later Psychological Makeup • Often Adheres to Medical Model • Directive View Believes Clients Need Guidance in the Change Process Humanistic • Nondirective View Has Trust in the Client's Own Ability to Make Change • Few Are Strictly Deterministic, Antideterministic, Directive, or Nondirective or Indiv or Systems • Most People Today Take On an Integrative Approach • In contrast to individualistic approaches, the "Systems" approach to counseling assumes that individuals' lives are affected by family dynamics and the impact of social conditions. http://www.vote4davenport.com/get_involved.htm

3. Problems are Relative Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Multicultural Perspective 1996 Fourth Editionby Allyn & Bacon by Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, Lynn Simek-Morgan

4. Major Theoretical Orientations Four Orientations Have Dominated Psychodynamic Behavioral Humanistic Cognitive • Existentialism is a philosophical concept which posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to it being created for them by deities or authorities or defined for them by philosophical or theological doctrines. • Phenomenology is the study of phenomena (from Greek, meaning "that which appears") and how they appear to us in a first-person perspective.) Fyodor Dostoevsky • views human nature as essentially positive • Having choices and believing in the client’s subjective reality are cornerstones of this theoretical approach • had its origins in existential philosophy and phenomenology Friedrich Nietzsche http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor Three German terms often used together in existential theory to represent different aspects of our existential reality. • Eigenwelt refers to our relationship with our self or our own-world. • Mitwelt refers to the world of fellow people or relational context. • Umwelt refers to the world-around or our environment, particularly our biological environment (as opposed to the people in our environment, which is Mitwelt). It can also be thought of as referring to being-in-the-world or culture. http://www.existential-therapy.com/Existential_Dictionary.html • Uberwelt: refers to the spiritual.

6. The Theory of Existentialism: we live in a meaningless universe, but we need meaning in our lives so we are responsible for creating it ourselves. Overview of Existentialism historically 2.5 min (KierkergaardNietzhe et al. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XzoEiqSFw&feature=related

7. Humanistic- Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Multicultural Perspective 1996 Fourth Editionby Allyn & Bacon by Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, Lynn Simek-Morgan

8. Just as you experience a radical shift in perspective in viewing this picture, so too can existential humanist counseling – change your perspective not just on your problems but on life in general.

9. But can it help with something as heavy as Hospice?

10. Hospice – Humanist Existentialist • Faces of Social Work: Lisa on hospice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tRHg4wXW_U • Visiting Shane- I have accepted that this is my life…dying is not the end of the person that you love…it’s a continued story.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NJyL2rGLc • Faces of Social Work: Maureen on trauma sensitive yoga • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE0aBNdqKUI&index=8&list=PL76D8E4AF19190CA7

11. http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/frankl/frankl.html Video on conditions (play in background without sound): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GX9DJ8jBfY&feature=related Handout: Victor FranklLogotherapy http://www.logotherapyinstitute.org/life-and-works.html

12. Search for meaning of life – logotherapy 4min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Cey-UZX-E&feature=related

13. The humanistic approach: emphasizes the belief that people can increase awareness, change, and grow asserts that abnormal behavior may be a healthy response to an unhealthy situation Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/rogers.html

14. http://timvandevall.com/printable-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-chart/http://timvandevall.com/printable-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-chart/

15. Choices • Safety • Love/Relationships • Self Actualization • Physiological • Esteem • Maslow studied healthy people to learn from them!

16. http://timvandevall.com/printable-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-chart/http://timvandevall.com/printable-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-chart/

17. Maslow's Hierarchy: A way of understanding the development of the person Joins with the Humanistic Values of: Empathy, Being Nonjudgmental, & Being Genuine: Essential Qualities & Skills Importance of the Helper/Client Relationship has Become Key http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html

18. Maslow's Hierarchy: A way of understanding the development of the person A client has trouble being spontaneous and does not feel good about him or herself. However, she feels a sense of community with her peer group. On which level of Maslow's hierarchy is she? Love and belonging http://two.not2.org/psychosynthesis/articles/maslow.htm

19. Carl Rogers Carl Rogers • believed that individuals have a “self-actualizing” tendency when placed in empathic and congruent environments • a self-actualized person is characterized by : • spontaneity. • high self worth. • being in touch with one's feelings and spirituality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers

20. Carl Rogers when individuals only love another if they act in a certain way, they are Setting up conditions of worth we sometimes act in ways to please others in order to obtain a sense of acceptance--even if the "pleasing self" isn't who we really are Introjection: the "swallowing whole" of the values of others we sometimes act in an incongruent manner because we have conditions of worth placed on us. In these cases, we are not showing our Real Self http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/rogers.html

21. Person‑centered Approach of Carl Rogers Necessary and Sufficient Conditions: • Empathy • Unconditional Positive Regard • Genuineness http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/rogers.html

22. Survived Trauma- Humanist • Anxiety and Trauma • Faces of Social Work: Barbara on building on clients' strengths • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VB6EsO1ME&list=PL76D8E4AF19190CA7&index=13

23. Handout: Reviewing the Meaning of One’s Being in the World Notice the references to Carl Rogers in this Therapy example

24. Video Clip: Humanist Existential Approach to Psychology

25. Humanistic Therapist talks about her practice (includes a healing and nonjudgemental space- meditation body mind) 3.5 min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjsRp79KB4&feature=related

27. Types of HS Theories • Antideterministic View Has Belief in the Ability of the Individual to Change • Deterministic View Asserts That There is Little Ability for the Person to Change • Early Childhood, Biology, Genetics Determine Later Psychological Makeup • Often Adheres to Medical Model • Directive View Believes Clients Need Guidance in the Change Process Humanistic • Nondirective View Has Trust in the Client's Own Ability to Make Change • Few Are Strictly Deterministic, Antideterministic, Directive, or Nondirective or Indiv or Systems • Most People Today Take On an Integrative Approach • In contrast to individualistic approaches, the "Systems" approach to counseling assumes that individuals' lives are affected by family dynamics and the impact of social conditions. http://www.vote4davenport.com/get_involved.htm

28. Viktor Frankl Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EIxGrIc_6g&feature=related