Humanistic Psychology

The humanistic approach to psychology is the psychological study of everything that makes up a person’s personality. Sometimes the humanistic approach is called phenomenological, which means that one’s own personality is looked at from their own personal experiences and how they processed them; it focuses on the individual person. This psychological approach rejects the views of behaviorism and psychoanalytic psychology and was formed in direct opposition of them. Theorists such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers who paved the way for the humanistic approach and gained it popularity felt that these approaches ignored the personal growth of the individual. Two of the best known psychologists in the field of humanistic psychology are Abraham

In addition she was an honors student, had a small group of friends dating back to elementary school, no hobbies and didn’t participate in any school or extracurricular sports. Six months after the death of her father, she reported to her mother that she needed help. Although in the pretreatment evaluation she often switched between attempts to control her feelings and being completely overwhelmed by them,she was able to function well in places that provided structure, such as her school. Through this, Shelly and her mom noticed they both felt they were arguing more often; all of this culminated in her diagnosis with adjustment disorder. She was also reported as having symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). As a result of these symptoms and other problems in different areas of her life she was also diagnosed with childhood traumatic grief, or CTG. In this case study, a positive outcome was predicted because of her nonexistent mental illness history and her and her mother had strong support networks. Today the humanistic approach to psychology is a widely used approach, often used in patients who suffer from depression and