Foundations of Humanistic Theory
This term describes the belief in humanistic theory that people are inherently capable of self-understanding and growth.
What is the actualizing tendency?
According to Carl Rogers, which three conditions are necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change?
What are empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard?
The existential term for “being-in-the-world” and "being present" is known as:
What is Dasein?
A therapist helps a client identify sensations and emotions connected to a memory by asking them to focus on what they feel in their body. Which approach is this most consistent with?
What is Gestalt Therapy?
A client says, “I just don’t know what the point of my life is anymore.” Which approach would most directly address this concern?
What is existential therapy?
Which existential theorist emphasized the search for meaning as a central motivating force in human life?
Who is Viktor Frankl?
In person-centered therapy, the therapist’s main source of information and guidance in treatment is:
What is the client’s immediate, subjective experience?
According to person-centered theory, the process of becoming more open to experience and aligning behavior with one’s true self describes:
What is self-actualization?
In existential therapy, this technique encourages clients to confront their fear by doing or imagining the very thing they avoid.
What is paradoxical intention?
A therapist focuses on creating a warm, accepting environment so the client feels safe to explore their own emotions. Which approach best fits?
What is person-centered therapy?
Humanistic and existential approaches emerged partly as a response to which two dominant traditions in psychology?
What are psychoanalysis and behaviorism?
In existential therapy, the therapist’s primary task during the early phase of treatment is to:
What is help clients increase awareness of how they relate to themselves and their world?
In Gestalt theory, people become stuck with growth disorders due to:
What is unfinished business?
A person-centered therapist primarily uses which method to help clients deepen self-understanding?
What are reflections of feeling and meaning?
A therapist notices a client repeatedly shifts topics whenever emotions surface and gently points this out in the moment. This reflects which therapeutic principle?
What is bringing awareness to the present moment experience (Gestalt concept)?
Existential therapists believe that when individuals realize that it is impossible to fulfill all of their innate potentials they are likely to experience:
What is existential guilt?
When a Gestalt therapist avoids asking “why” questions, it primarily serves to:
What is keep the client in the here-and-now and focused on direct experience.
When a client chooses actions based on external approval rather than internal values, existential therapists would describe this as living:
What is inauthentically?
Which of the following is a Gestalt technique that involves having clients dialogue between conflicting parts of themselves to promote awareness and integration?
What is the empty-chair technique?
A client says, “I don’t know who I am without my partner.” The therapist helps the client explore their sense of isolation and encourages them to define their own values and choices. This intervention reflects which existential concept?
What is developing authenticity?
In Gestalt theory, the phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” captures which central concept?
What is holism/wholeness?
A person-centered therapist notices feeling tense when a client withholds emotion and decides to share this reaction as feedback. This demonstrates which Rogerian condition?
What is congruence (genuineness)?
A client says, “I know I should feel grateful, but I’m angry instead.” A Gestalt therapist might describe this as a conflict between:
What are polarities?
During an existential session, a client realizes they have been making decisions to please others rather than acting from their own values. This moment represents what therapeutic process?
What is increased awareness leading to authenticity?
A therapist views client improvement not as the absence of symptoms, but as the client becoming more aware, genuine, and able to make intentional life choices. This outcome reflects the goal of which therapeutic orientation?
What is humanistic–existential therapy?