PSYC 4061 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Gestalt Therapy, Daniel J. Siegel, Gestalt Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4061
• Professor: Michael Luther

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Aliases include nondirective, humanistic, rogerian, and emotion-focused counseling. Person-centered counseling emphasizes the potential of humans to learn, grow, and heal themselves when given the opportunity in a supportive therapeutic relationship. Person-centered counseling focuses on exploring healing variables and engaging in active listening with the client. It may give too much responsibility to the client and reduce the role of the counselor as the trained expert. It does not respond to the difficulties that are seen in the process of translating feelings into action. It is narrow in its focus on feelings and tends to ignore thoughts and behaviour: existential counseling. Aliases include humanistic, phenomenological, and experiential counseling. Existential counseling encourages the client to use and accept anxiety or a particular situation in a constructive way. The main goal of existential counseling is to help people find personal meaning in their actions, lives, and suffering therefore expanding their range of choices and thus their freedom to develop in new ways.