Identify the chief benefit to the client in the Humanistic therapy.

The correct answer is Option (3) → Personal Growth

Each school of therapy names a different chief benefit to the client.

Option (1) Emotional Insight — Incorrect. Psychodynamic therapy values emotional insight: the client understands her or his conflicts intellectually, accepts them emotionally and changes her or his emotions towards them.

Option (2) Changing faulty behaviour and thought patterns — Incorrect. Behaviour therapy considers changing faulty behaviour and thought patterns to adaptive ones the chief benefit, since healthy patterns reduce distress and remove symptoms.

Option (3) Personal Growth — Correct. The humanistic therapy values personal growth as the chief benefit. Personal growth is the process of gaining increasing understanding of oneself, and one’s aspirations, emotions and motives.

Option (4) Intellectual Insight — Incorrect. Intellectual insight is understanding one’s conflicts only at the level of thought. In psychodynamic therapy it is a step on the way to emotional insight, and it is not the benefit humanistic therapy aims at.

Note 1: The concept in Option (4), ‘intellectual insight’, was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023, and is not there in the NCERT book (2025-26); explained here for the benefit of the students.

Note 2: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 18-06-2023 (Slot 2).