Humanist Approach Analysis

The largest benefit of the moral perspective is that it accounts for the moral aspects of individuals. Before this perspective was invented, there was no perspective that considered how clients could have a mental illness or unease because they did something they felt guilty or anxious about. This approach gave psychologists specific treatments for mentally ill patients that are testable. The main advantage to the humanist approach is how clients are treated. The humanist approach is very client centered and sessions with clients are what most counselors adopt today: reflection and then clarification while the therapist models genuineness and willingness to disclose. The main advantage to the social approach is its attention to the
context of abnormality. The social approach uses how a client—and others around the client—reacts to symptoms, the institution of mental illness, as well as who diagnosed the client. It suggests that societies reaction to mental illness influences how a person with mental illness will react and respond to treatment.