Humanistic Approach
The humanistic approach is a form of psychotherapy which encourages the client think about their feelings, and take responsibility for their thoughts and actions.
A client-centred approach is often used and the therapy can be described as holistic or looking at the person as a whole.
In practice, the strategies used in the humanistic approach tend to overlap with the strategies used in other approaches, such as
- Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies focussing on unconscious patterns from childhood
- Cognitive and behavioural therapies looking at cognition (thinking) and behaviour
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