The Humanistic Approach in Psychology & Psychotherapy, Sociology & Social Work, Pedagogy & Education, Management and Art

In the process of realization of this book was taken into consideration and was consulted the "social" and "therapeutic" literature of humanistic orientation, with the two main directions - existential/positive and spiritual/cultural/humanitarian, or the one that describe them or refer to them. *** Essentially, the Humanistic-Existential/Positive orientations/theories represent the person and personality through traits like high level of personal and social autonomy, free will and high capacity/ability to self-determination, high level of personal development, high resilience, high capacity to control the emotions, high degree of awareness, self-knowledge, high self-esteem, high level of interpersonal development, adaptability, mature personality, activism and initiative, assertiveness, etc., while the socio-human (micro-)community is represented through features such as high autonomy, strong organizational culture, high socio-human functionality, high cohesion, unity, solidity, adaptability, resilience, resistance to crisis and challenges, good management, etc. The humanistic-existential/positive approaches promote core concepts as strong personality and strong community, personal development and community development. *** The Humanistic-Spiritual/Cultural/Humanitarian approaches/theories promote as core concepts spiritual/humane personality and humane/good community, spiritual/humane development of the person and humane/cultural development of the community. Representing the person and personality these approaches/theories highlight especially the inner-ontological psychological-spiritual and psychological-humane content/valence/dimensions, spirituality, virtue, humanity, the spiritual and humane self. These paradigms give so to the ontological-spiritual and psychological-humane spheres the primary etiological and structural role in formation, structure, and functioning of the person/personality. They highlight and promote personality traits, qualities such as spirituality, virtue, humanness, altruism, empathy, love, faith, etc. ***** The book's design, content and bibliography are made in such a way that to be useful both to the academic community, to students and teachers, and also to the professional community, to psychotherapists, educators, managers, social workers, artists, etc.