Humanistic Therapy
Humanistic therapy is the therapy used in humanism psychologists in order to treat a patient.
Some psychologists started to disagree about the explanation of personality by the precedents psycho-theories. Because the theories ignore the qualities that make us unique to the other animal. Some of these psychologists started a humanism school.
Humanism theory is started my Maslow and developed by Rogers.
The humanism psychologists claimed to be the 3rd force after the behaviourism and psychoanalysis psychologists.
The humanism theory is known as the 3rd force in clinical psychology because of matter of acknowledge the theories that came before them.
They believed that human was born innocent therefore there is no need of label but to place …show more content…
human in the centre. Humans have a free will to change they behaviours and be whatever they wish.
Abraham Maslow claimed that Psychological ill happen when human can’t achieve his self-actualisation, that is the final (5th) step of hierarchy of need that started by physiological (food & water), safety (security & stability), love-belonging (friends & family), self-esteem and then self-actualisation.
Carl Rogers argued with the mains Maslow’s ideas.
He contributed to humanism approach by fathering the self-concept and the client (person) centred therapy.
According to Rogers this therapy will help the person to reach the self-actualisation in order to fully develop a human personality and achieve his/her goals.
The methodology used to treat a patient is a combination of analysis of mind and observation. The therapist must see the client as a person and not as a problem.
Client centre therapy can be use in treatment of many types of clients included addictions and mental health conditions. This therapy can be use in case of depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, personality disorders, alcohol addictions.
Anorexic patient is someone who suffer of anorexia. Anorexia is a serious eating disorder that is when a person (usually female) felling the pleasure of losing weight in order to keep this body as slimmer as possible by refusing to eat or reducing the amount of food, provoking vomiting and doing excessive exercise.
Anorexia is the outcome of anxiety regarding beauty and body shape. Anorexic patients destruct the self-notion by developing the fat phobia. they think that they are fat and ugly when they are not. they also think that people would love them according on how they look and weight. Therefor they intentional started to lose …show more content…
weight.
Symptoms: intentional weight loss such as weight themselves, check themselves in the mirror, lie about when and what they have eaten or avoid a fat food.
Psychological causes included tendency towards anxiety and depression, having a difficulty to hold stress, excessive fear about future and felling fat.
How to treat an anorexic patient by using the client (person) centred therapy
The client had been through a lot such as fat phobia, depression, destruction of self-notion, lying, fear or having difficulty to hold stress.
The therapist will face many challenge to trait this serious eating disorder. There for he/she need good therapeutic mechanisms that will help the client gain the self-esteem, self-image and ideal self.
The therapist must create an accepting environment which his/her client can rebuild his/her true self .by giving the client self-driving his session for example the client is free to set up the therapy time as he/she wish. The client will fell grow and independent.
The therapist must empathic understanding that is mean The therapist must temporary enter to the client world to understand what exactly the client fell without critics or make the judgement about his/her eating disorder. and give the client an unconditional positive attention by listening, sharing the views, thinking together. It will also help to build a positive relationship between the therapist and the client.
The therapist must trait his/her patient with sincerity and genuine by telling to the client what you really feel about his eating disorder
experiences.
In this atmosphere the client will became open about his/her anorexic experiences, will have a self-trust without fear, will have an internal evaluation and it will drive the client toward self-actualisation.
Some psychologists started to disagree about the explanation of personality by the precedents psycho-theories. Because the theories ignore the qualities that make us unique to the other animal. Some of these psychologists started a humanism school.
Humanism theory is started my Maslow and developed by Rogers.
The humanism psychologists claimed to be the 3rd force after the behaviourism and psychoanalysis psychologists.
The humanism theory is known as the 3rd force in clinical psychology because of matter of acknowledge the theories that came before them.
They believed that human was born innocent therefore there is no need of label but to place …show more content…
human in the centre. Humans have a free will to change they behaviours and be whatever they wish.
Abraham Maslow claimed that Psychological ill happen when human can’t achieve his self-actualisation, that is the final (5th) step of hierarchy of need that started by physiological (food & water), safety (security & stability), love-belonging (friends & family), self-esteem and then self-actualisation.
Carl Rogers argued with the mains Maslow’s ideas.
He contributed to humanism approach by fathering the self-concept and the client (person) centred therapy.
According to Rogers this therapy will help the person to reach the self-actualisation in order to fully develop a human personality and achieve his/her goals.
The methodology used to treat a patient is a combination of analysis of mind and observation. The therapist must see the client as a person and not as a problem.
Client centre therapy can be use in treatment of many types of clients included addictions and mental health conditions. This therapy can be use in case of depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, personality disorders, alcohol addictions.
Anorexic patient is someone who suffer of anorexia. Anorexia is a serious eating disorder that is when a person (usually female) felling the pleasure of losing weight in order to keep this body as slimmer as possible by refusing to eat or reducing the amount of food, provoking vomiting and doing excessive exercise.
Anorexia is the outcome of anxiety regarding beauty and body shape. Anorexic patients destruct the self-notion by developing the fat phobia. they think that they are fat and ugly when they are not. they also think that people would love them according on how they look and weight. Therefor they intentional started to lose …show more content…
weight.
Symptoms: intentional weight loss such as weight themselves, check themselves in the mirror, lie about when and what they have eaten or avoid a fat food.
Psychological causes included tendency towards anxiety and depression, having a difficulty to hold stress, excessive fear about future and felling fat.
How to treat an anorexic patient by using the client (person) centred therapy
The client had been through a lot such as fat phobia, depression, destruction of self-notion, lying, fear or having difficulty to hold stress.
The therapist will face many challenge to trait this serious eating disorder. There for he/she need good therapeutic mechanisms that will help the client gain the self-esteem, self-image and ideal self.
The therapist must create an accepting environment which his/her client can rebuild his/her true self .by giving the client self-driving his session for example the client is free to set up the therapy time as he/she wish. The client will fell grow and independent.
The therapist must empathic understanding that is mean The therapist must temporary enter to the client world to understand what exactly the client fell without critics or make the judgement about his/her eating disorder. and give the client an unconditional positive attention by listening, sharing the views, thinking together. It will also help to build a positive relationship between the therapist and the client.
The therapist must trait his/her patient with sincerity and genuine by telling to the client what you really feel about his eating disorder
experiences.
In this atmosphere the client will became open about his/her anorexic experiences, will have a self-trust without fear, will have an internal evaluation and it will drive the client toward self-actualisation.