Classification and types of Humanist Therapies

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Anthony Golden
Classification and types of Humanist Therapies

Humanistic Therapies focus on self-development, growth, and responsibilities. They try to help individuals recognize their strengths, creativity, and choice in the "here and now.".

Existential Therapy

Existential Therapy focuses on exploring the meaning of certain themes through a philosophical perspective, rather than a technique-based approach..

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Gestalt therapy

Gestalt Therapy can be translated as a "whole" and focuses on the totality of an individual's experience, including their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Gaining self-awareness in the "here and now" is a key aspect of Gestalt Therapy.

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Human Needs Therapy

The Human Needs Centered approach is a type of psychotherapy that is based on the premise that human beings have a set of innate "basic needs" and if these needs are not met, psychological distress may appear.

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Therapy focused on the client

Person-Centered Therapy is a type of psychotherapy with a relatively new approach that has been described by its founders as a "bio-psychosocial" approach to psychotherapy. The basic assumption of therapy is that human beings have innate needs that must be met for mental well-being.

Person-centered therapy (also known as "client-centered" counseling)

Person-centered therapy focuses on an individual's heritage and self values. Being valued as a person, without being judged, can help an individual accept who they are, and reconnect with themselves..

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Brief Therapy Focused on Solutions

Also known as Solution Focused Therapy or Brief Therapy, this approach predominantly looks at what the individual wants to achieve the solution to the problem rather than looking at the individual's history. Questions are asked by the therapist to help the person discover their own strengths and resources. Solution-focused therapy can be especially helpful for those who are goal-oriented and have a clear desire to change..

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Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis is based on the theory that we each have three ego states: Parent, adult, and child. By recognizing ego states, transactional analysis attempts to identify how people communicate, and how this can be changed.

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Transpersonal Psychology

Transpersonal Psychology means "beyond the personal" and seeks to discover the person that transcends a bodily individual, age, appearance, culture, etc..

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Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapies have developed thanks to humanistic models. These approaches such as those that come from the European existential phenomenological tradition and those that started from the American phenomenon of humanistic psychology.

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