Which therapy encourages the client to seek personal growth and actua…

The correct answer is Option (1) → Humanistic-existential Therapy

Option (1) Humanistic-existential Therapy — Correct. These therapies hold that human beings are motivated by the desire for personal growth and self-actualisation, and that distress arises when society and family curb these needs. The therapist provides a positive, accepting and non-judgmental setting, and the client arrives at the solutions through a process of personal growth.

Option (2) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy — Incorrect. CBT combines cognitive therapy with behavioural techniques: it works on the client’s irrational thoughts and on her or his faulty behaviour, as a short treatment for disorders such as anxiety and depression. Its aim is relief from these problems, not self-actualisation.

Option (3) Behavioural Therapy — Incorrect. Behaviour therapy treats faulty behaviour patterns by changing their antecedents and consequences, with techniques such as reinforcement, token economy and systematic desensitisation.

Option (4) Cognitive Therapy — Incorrect. Cognitive therapies locate the cause of distress in irrational thoughts and beliefs, as in Ellis’s rational emotive therapy and Beck’s cognitive therapy, and change those thoughts.