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NRNP 6645 FINAL EXAM REVIEW 2023-2024 Characteristics of Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy: 1) Commitment to the phenomenological perspective: Strives to understand the subjective experience of the patient in the context of his or her unique experience and the patient's lived experience is paramount. 2) Centrality of the therapeutic relationship: The therapist patient relationship is the primary source for constructive change in the humanisticessential approach. Carl Rogers was the first to discover that the therapists’characteristics of empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regardalong with the patient's ability to perceive these characteristics are the necessary elements for therapeutic change. 3) Belief in Holism: Holism means total or entire. Holism recognizes that people are unique whole individuals who cannot be reduced or separated parts. The expression the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Each person is the unified whole of mind, body, and spirit and that these aspectswork together. 4) Focus on the Here and Now: Authentic contact and change can happenonly in the present, thus the here and now is the focus of therapy.