Maslow and Rogers were proponents of humanistic psychology, which views people as having free will and playing an active role in shaping their own behavior. Maslow studied self-actualized individuals and identified key characteristics like maintaining constant enjoyment of life, focusing on problems in their environment, accepting realities, and valuing democratic friendships. Both emphasized viewing people as active, creative beings who live in the present and subjectively respond to current experiences. Humanistic therapy relies on clients to understand the past's effects and stresses the therapist's empathetic reflective responses to help clients.

2. • It emphasized that people have free will and they
play an active role in determining how they behave.
Abraham Maslow Carl Rogers
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers were proponents of this view, which is
based on the “phenomenal field” theory of Combs and Snygg (1949)

3. • Maslow spent much of his time studying what called
“self-actualizing persons,” those who are “fulfilling themselves
and doing the best they are capable of doing.”
Characteristics of self-actualizers according to Maslow
include the four key dimensions:
1. Awareness – maintaining constant
enjoyment and awe of life. These
individuals often experience a “peak
experience”. He defined a peak
experience as an “intensification of
any experience to the degree where
there is a loss or transcendence of
self.”
2. Reality and problem centered –
they have the tendency to be
concerned with “problems” in their
surroundings.

4. 3. Acceptance/Spontaneity – they accept their surroundings
and what cannot be changed.
4. Unhostile sense of humor/democratic – they do not like
joking about others, which can be viewed as offensive. They
have friends of all backgrounds and religions and hold very
close friendship

5. •Maslow and Rogers emphasized a view of the
person as an Active, Creative, experiencing human
beings who lives in the present and subjectively
responds to current perceptions, relationships, and
encounters.

6. • Humanistic Therapy typically relies on the client for
information of the past and its effect on the present.
• Rogers found patients differ in how they respond to model
a particular approach to therapy –he stressed the reflective or
empathetic response.
•Example of Reflective Response would be, “It seems you are
feeling about your upcoming marriage.”

7. Grp. 2 DR. Analiza Ocampo
Psychology
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