The humanistic perspective emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against psychodynamic and behaviorist approaches, emphasizing the individual's capacity for self-determination and the importance of personal experience. Key figures include Abraham Maslow, known for his study of successful individuals, and Carl Rogers, who focused on self-actualization and client-centered therapy. Humanistic psychology is influential in education, advocating for student-centered learning, and promotes therapies that prioritize human values, free will, and personal meaning.

1. Humanistic Perspective

2. • Humanistic perspective revealed as a rebellion against the
psychodynamic and behaviorist perspectives.
• Humanistic perspective holds a hopeful, constructive view of human
beings and of their substantial capacity to be self-determining.
• Emerged in the late 1950
• Humanistic psychology is a perspective that emphasizes looking at
the whole person and the uniqueness of each individual.
What is Humanistic perspective?

4. Why humanistic psychology rejected the previous
approaches ?
• Psychodynamic perspective is very deterministic, with unconscious
irrational and instinctive forces determining human thought and
behavior.
• Behaviorist perspective which is characterized as deterministic,
focused on reinforcement of stimulus- response behavior and heavily
rely on animal research.

5. Abraham Maslow’s Contribution
• Abraham Maslow was born in Brooklyn in 1908 – 1970
• He studied the individual's lives and
activities that he found considered
them to be “successful and
productive.

6. Working with students who are having achievement problems:-
 Low achievement with low expectations
 High anxiety
 Protection of self worth by avoiding failure
 Procrastinators
 perfectionist

8. ☻Carl Rogers’ humanistic personality theory emphasizes the
importance of the self-actualizing tendency in forming a self-
concept.
☻Carl Rogers was one of the founding members of the humanist
movement.
☻Humanistic psychology emphasized the active role of the individual
in shaping their internal and external worlds. Rogers advanced the
field by stressing that the human person is an active, creative,
experiencing being who lives in the present and subjectively
responds to current perceptions, relationships, and encounters.

9. Personality Development and the Self-Concept
The phenomenal field: The phenomenal field refers to a person’s subjective reality,
which includes external objects and people as well as internal thoughts and emotions.
The person’s motivations and environments both act on their phenomenal field.

10. Ideal Self vs. Real Self Unconditional Positive Regard
 In the development of the self-concept,
Rogers elevated the importance of
unconditional positive regard, or
unconditional love.
 The ideal self is the person that you
would like to be.
 The real self is the person you
actually are.

11. “The Good Life”
1. A growing openness to experience–they move away from defensiveness.
2. An increasingly existential lifestyle.
3. Increasing organismic trust–they trust their own judgment.
4. Freedom of choice–they are not restricted by incongruence and are able to make a wide
range of choices more fluently.
5. Higher levels of creativity–they will be more creative in the way they adapt to their
own circumstances without feeling a need to conform.
6. Reliability and constructiveness–they can be trusted to act constructively.
7. A rich full life–they will experience joy and pain, love and heartbreak.

12. The humanistic perspective
in education

13. • Student-centered learning is the main goal when humanistic theory
enters to educational setting.
• The key concepts of this perspective focusing on the idea that
children are good at the core and that education should focus on
rational ways to teach the “whole” child.
• Good teachers are always looking for ways to improve their
methods to help students motivate in their classroom.

14. The principles of humanistic learning theory
 Student choice
 Fostering engagement to inspire students to become self-
motivated to learn
 The importance of self evaluation
 Feelings and knowledge are both important to the learning
process and should not be separated according to humanistic
psychology
 A safe learning environment

15. Humanistic Therapies

16. • What is humanistic
therapy?
• What we expect
from humanistic
therapy?

17. Humanistic Therapies Theorists
Client- centered therapy Carl Rogers
Analytical and Archetypal
Psychology
C.G. Jung, James Hillman
Authentic Movement Mary Whitehouse
Existential Analysis Rollo May, James F.T Bugental
Gestalt Art Therapy Janie Rhyne
Logo therapy Viktor Frankl
Psychosynthesis Roberto Assagioli
Rational-Emotive Therapy Albert Ellis
Reality Therapy William Glasser
Self-Disclosure Sidney Jourard
Sensory Awareness though Movement Moshe Feldenkreis

18. Client-centered therapy
It is a non-directive form of talk therapy. it allows the
client to lead the conversation and does not attempt to
manipulate the client in any way.
There are three qualities that can be seen from client-
centered therapist:
• Unconditional positive regards
• Genuineness
• Empathy

19. Existential therapy
• This therapy is based on tenants of free will, self-
determination, and a search for meaning in life.
• It’s heavily influenced by philosophy and emphasizes
positive choices and innate wisdom.
• This is a positive therapy experience for those who are
inclined toward deep thought and searching — support
during the search for freedom to live more
authentically.

20. Logo therapy
Logo therapy examines the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects
of a human being, and it can be seen through the expression of an
individual’s functioning.
The spiritual dimension is one of meaning. The basic tenets of logo
therapy are that:
• human life has meaning
• human beings long to experience their own sense of life
meaning.
• humans have the potential to experience meaning under
any and every circumstance.

21. Basic assumptions of humanistic psychology
• Humanistic is an approach based on the idea of human needs and human
values.
• Focusing on the subjective, practical and social conditions of all human
experiences from the epistemological experience to the ethical. political,
religious, aesthetic and daily experiences
• It depends more on subjective than objective research which aims to
understanding human in his or her environment.

22. • Humanistic studies human awareness, human consciousness, human
creativity, human experience, a human expression, human thought and
behavior.
• Planner as knower, to link knowledge with action in the process of
planning.
• The humanist urban designer pays attention to small scale.

23. Limitations
• Ignores biological factor
• unscientific – subjective concepts ( self – actualization )
• Humanism ignores the unconscious mind
• Behaviorism – human and animal behavior can be compared
• Qualitative data is difficult to compare
• Ethnocentric ( biased towards western culture )
• Their beliefs in free will in opposition to the deterministic
laws of science

24. References
• https://www.simplypsychology.org/humanistic.html
• https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-lifespandevelopment/chapter/the-
humanistic-perspective
• Journal article - Educational applications of humanistic psychology,
https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4405(72)90064-7

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