PSYC36H3 Chapter : Experiential
Document Summary
ets are approaches to therapy that emphasize the importance of promoting and using knowing by experience when facilitating client change. to experience means to live through , to have firsthand knowledge of sates, situations, emotions, or sensations. experience is the domain of a whole and embodied person. experience (including conceptual knowledge) is inextricably based on the embodied process of living. grounded in humanistic, phenomenological, and existential principles that emphasize that clients are aware organisms , self-reflective creative agents with subjective phenomenal experiences, beings who are actively and dynamically involved in the construction of their own realities. this dynamically changing, in-the-moment phenomenal experience is viewed as fundamental data, as valid, and as an important source of information bout the self and the world in which that self is situated. the self is the most knowable from direct experience, rather than from ideas or beliefs about the self, or self-concept.
