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The Future Is Now: Report From the HECTOR Project and the Fourth Annual Society for Humanistic Psychology Conference
... It is quite common for students to feel untethered and without an anchor as they navigate academia and the vast landscape of theoretical orientations and professional organizations (see Rubin, 2011;Schneider, 2024). RMHCPA is a values-driven community that stands apart from other psychological associations in its embodiment of openness, authenticity, engagement, and genuine warmth where students are welcomed with open arms into a community that feels like family. ...
The Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association (RMHCPA) was founded in 2016 as a local psychological organization with a commitment to building a humanistic community in Colorado. Since this time, the organization's mission expanded to include purchasing a building that houses the International
... At its developmental zenith, humanistic psychology represented a call to rethink and revise psychology's relationship to its subject matter (DeRobertis, 2021). Today, it remains an influential force in psychology (Kamens, 2021), with some arguing that the 2000s have marked a humanistic renaissance in the field (Rubin, 2011). The Journal of Humanistic Psychology and the Humanistic Psychologist have recently witnessed a record number of submissions, and about 20 existential-humanistic identifying training programs have been established in the US (Rubin and Humphreys, 2016). ...
Key points
• Humanistic psychotherapy values the subjective experience of the whole person, believing that everyone has the innate capacity to grow toward self-actualization.
• The humanistic therapy relationship is a genuine encounter characterized by authentic engagement with the unique individual and the shared realities of the human condition.
• Although unique experiences of the individual are valued from a humanistic perspective, so too is the appreciation of individuals’ sociocultural and relational context, suggesting that humanistic therapy is compatible with feminist and multicultural approaches.
• Humanistic psychology has been an influential force that has shaped best practices in mainstream psychotherapy today.
... Yet the past 10 years have borne witness to a gradual change in humanistic psychology with regard to multiculturalism. Increasingly, leaders in humanistic psychology have acknowledged the problematic lack of diversity in humanistic psychology and the need to become more inclusive of multicultural perspectives (Cleare- Hoffman, 2008aHoffman, , 2011Hoffman, Oumarou, Mejia, & Alcahé, 2008;Rubin, 2011;Schneider & Längle, 2012). Acknowledgment of the problem, however, is hardly sufficient. ...
This article examines current and historical trends in psychotherapy research and practice with racial/ethnic minority populations. Initially, research on Derald Sue’s multicultural counseling competencies is provided as a foundation to further examine the evidence regarding effective cultural adaptations to mainstream treatment approaches, such as cognitive-behavior therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy. Next, a brief outline of Carl Rogers’s psychotherapy research tradition is presented, with a focus on both past and present evidence suggesting that person-centered therapy may be effective across diagnoses, as well as cultures. Using psychotherapy evidence from both the latter half of the 20th century and the initial decades of the 21st century, cultural adaptations to previously hypothesized person-centered therapy mechanisms of change are proposed. In particular, this culturally adapted person-centered approach is suggested to provide a competent and effective treatment system for racial/ethnic minority clients and families.
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