NRNP 6645 FINAL EXAM REVIEW 2023-2024

NRNP 6645 FINAL EXAM REVIEW 2023-2024

Characteristics of Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy:
1) Commitment to the phenomenological perspective: Strives to
understand the subjective experience of the patient in the
context of his or her unique experience and the patient's lived
experience is paramount.
2) Centrality of the therapeutic relationship: The therapist patient
relationship is the primary source for constructive change in the
humanisticessential approach. Carl Rogers was the first to
discover that the therapists’characteristics of empathy,
genuineness, and unconditional positive regardalong with the
patient's ability to perceive these characteristics are the necessary
elements for therapeutic change.
3) Belief in Holism: Holism means total or entire. Holism recognizes
that people are unique whole individuals who cannot be reduced
or separated parts. The expression the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts. Each person is the unified whole of mind, body,
and spirit and that these aspectswork together.
4) Focus on the Here and Now: Authentic contact and change
can happenonly in the present, thus the here and now is the

focus of therapy.