The Humanistic Psychologist is the official newsletter of Div. 32, providing members with news and discussion of current issues in the field. The Div. 32 Psychotherapy and the Arts interest group also produces a newsletter, in collaboration with Div. 10.
The journal The Humanistic Psychologist publishes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research as well as humanistic, existential, constructivist and transpersonal theories and psychotherapies.
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Div. 32 News
Div. 32 endorses Kirk Schneider, PhD, for APA president
Learn more about Kirk Schneider's campaign promising transformational leadership.
Report from the International Whole Person Approaches Work Group
Members of this work group, called International Whole Person Approaches, came from a core group of therapists and researchers from the United States and abroad. Ongoing projects from this work group include arts-based and written materials, participation in collaborative projects such as the weekly roundtables and training webinars to disseminate resources for building resilience and creativity in the face of trauma.
Div. 32 program for APA's 2021 virtual convention (PDF, 170KB)
Div. 32 will offer a variety of programming for APA 2021 Virtual, including live presentations, a virtual hospitality suite, a presidential address on using humanistic psychology to heal a divided nation, and more.
Humanistic psychology post-pandemic
How humanistic multicultural case formulation is grounded in mindful sociocultural attunement
In a new article from two humanistic psychologists, Andrew J. Felder (UCLA) and Brent D. Robbins (Point Park University), explore how the presence-centered and context-sensitive emphases of person-centered and existential phenomenology are rooted in mindful and meditative attunement to socio-culturally diverse clients. The article, “Approaching mindful multicultural case formulation: Rogers, Yalom, and existential phenomenology,” was recently published in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies (April 2020).
From the president: Can humanistic psychology heal the world?
Humanistic psychology can heal the world if it avoids polarization and embraces complexity, mystery, ambiguity, and awe.
When COVID-19 meets pandemic hope: Existential care of and in the impossible
Todd DuBose, PhD, discusses existential issues related to the pandemic situation with COVID-19: “...Hope was and is stronger than what the virus has and can take from us. Hope can be as pandemic as the virus. The rub, of course, is how to offer hope without disrespecting abject anguish related to the horror and mourning of the havoc wrecked in the virus’ path.”
Humanistic psychologists release book, Integrated Care for the Traumatized
Co-editors are Ilene Serlin, Stanley Krippner, and Kirwan Rockefeller, with a foreword by Charles Figley and published by Rowman and Littlefield, this text discusses new models of Whole Person integrated care for the traumatized. More information is available in the Spring 2019 issue of the Psychotherapy and the Arts newsletter.
The California Psychological Association honored Ilene Serlin, PhD, as the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Humanitarian Contribution award. This award honors a person whose volunteer and career efforts have directly and significantly improved the quality of life for a broad range and large number of persons in our society.
Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD, director of sex and couples therapy training at the University of Ottawa, reports on her team's research and provides information about upcoming trainings for experienced couples therapists.
Additional Information
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