EXISTENTIAL AND HUMANISM APPROACH

Existential and Humanism Approach



Counseling Style Existential and Humanism Approach

Introduction

Psychotherapy is an area of professional practice, which aims to help people in resolving their psychological difficulties, and improves psychological state, releases the obstacles to people's personal growth, and also involves in the development and improvement of human beings (Yalom, 1980). Modern psychotherapy addresses a wide range of tasks to provide psychological help to people who find themselves in difficult situations.Thesis statement

There are different therapies that help the drug addictive patients in coming back to their normal lives. There are many pros and cons of drug addictive treatments.Discussion

Existential therapy is one aspect of modern psychotherapy, which is the centre of person's attention to general questions raises from a person's life and his existence in the world, and with the basic and fundamental problems of life and man's relationship with the world. The existential therapist helps a person to understand the complex issues of life and death, to the finiteness of life, coping with fear of death, to find the meaning of his life again and feel alive (Self Staley, 2010). Existential psychotherapy helps people gain a sense of their personal liberty, to take responsibility for themselves and their lives, to feel the uniqueness and originality of their inner world, to learn how to interact with other people without losing their independence. “When applied to therapy, existential refers to a type of psychotherapy embedded in a rich process of self-discovery” (Hoffman, 2009, p.1). Existential therapy is considered depth psychotherapy and an ontological therapy (Hoffman, 2009, p.5). Existential therapy is considered depth psychotherapy in that it does not focus on skills or techniques but rather asks deep questions about the person's experience of being and experience or anxiety of not being, that is, the knowledge that one will someday die and that there are continued threats to our existence (Schneider Krug, 2010).

An existential-humanistic perspective, recognizing and overcoming resistances to existential anxiety are fundamental to the ongoing development of the fully evolved authentic Self and its ways of being, as they set us in search of ourselves. Existential-humanistic psychologists hold that the individual's ability to actualize his or her full potential is achieved not by avoiding anxiety but by directly confronting it. They place great emphasis on the central role of freedom, choice, and responsibility in human existence and believe that the authentic self can be experienced only in a process of exploring and acknowledging our inner world, confronting our resistance to existential anxieties, searching for that which is meaningful to us, and asserting our potentialities (McGhee, 2011).Existential therapy problems

Existential therapy like any other therapy aims at helping the client to resolve his difficulties and problems in life. Existential therapy seeks primarily to change the life of a person who applied for help, a way of life in the world. The existential therapist working in the basic patterns of the individual client or a system of constructs that reflects the way of being in the ...