Exploring Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories

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Based on your readings for this Week, access the Personality Theory Matrix and complete the requested information in Column F section for Humanistic and Existential theory. You can use this information to support your Discussion post and response this week.

Note: Continue to populate the Personality Theory Matrix spreadsheet you began in Week 2 to guide your learning about personality theories for your Module Assessment and submit it in Week 8 as part of your Module Assessment.

To Prepare

  • Review the Learning Resources, focusing on theorists, cultural considerations, assessments/interventions, limitations, and unique aspects of humanistic and existential theory.

By Day 4

Post two key ideas from the humanistic/phenomenological and existential theoretical orientation. How are phenomenological theory and existential theory related?

References:

Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019). Personality: Theory and research (14th ed.). Wiley.

  • Chapter 5, ”A Phenomenological Theory: The Personality Theory of Rogers” (pp. 127–146)
  • Chapter 6, “Rogers’s Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research” (pp. 147–179)

MASLOW, A., Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, B. M., & New England Board of Higher Education, W. M. (1965). Self-Actualization and beyond.

Rogers, C. (1947). Psychotherapy. In Current trends in psychology. (pp. 109–137). University of Pittsburgh Press.

Timulak, L. (2018). Humanistic‐experiential therapies in the treatment of generalised anxiety: A perspective. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 18(3), 233–236.


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