Humanistic Psychotherapy: Healing and Techniques

Humanistic Psychotherapy: A Path to Healing

Key Concepts of Humanistic Psychotherapy

  • The humanistic psychology movement is a genuinely American development, emerging outside of academic psychology during the 1960s. It arose from dissatisfaction with behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
  • The immediate background of the humanist movement is the Gestalt school.
  • The main feature is the conception of man as being endowed with inherent potential. This potential should be discovered and nurtured rather than constructed.
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Occupational Safety and Employment Contracts: Key Aspects

Occupational Safety and Employer Responsibility

Civil Liability

When occupational accidents with harmful outcomes are caused by reckless or negligent actions of the employer, they must compensate the worker for the damages caused by the accident.

Criminal Liability

The law punishes anyone who is legally obliged to safeguard the life and physical health of workers, yet fails to provide the necessary means for them to carry out their work safely and without risk to life, health, and physical integrity,

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Cultural Welfare and Social Policies in Education

Cultural Welfare

Cultural welfare aims to create a collective consciousness of human coexistence, built from the amalgamation of principles (liberty, equality, justice, pluralism) and linked to improving the quality of life and common welfare. It has three basic elements:

  • Universal guarantee of minimum welfare
  • Recognition of full rights and freedoms
  • Commitment to joint and several liabilities

There are three socio-political challenges:

  • Prosperity is not possible without education
  • Overcoming the handouts
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Understanding Constitutional Sources: Law, Custom, and Pacts

Constitutional Sources

Primary Sources

Primary sources do not presuppose the existence or operation of other prior sources. Examples include genuine constituent power, assumed habit when the law is against it, and the social contract.

Secondary Sources

Secondary sources presuppose the existence or operation of other sources. An example is the case law of constitutional reform.

The Role of Custom

Customary, repeating actions and behaviors can effect changes in constitutions. For this to happen, constitutions

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Globalization: Impact, Culture, and Market Entry

Chapter 3: Globalization

Defining Globalization

  • Globalization: The flow of goods and services, money, and knowledge across countries.
  • Friedman: “The integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before – in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations, and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before.”
  • Yergin & Stanislaw: “A process marked by accelerating integration of national economies through the growing
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Understanding Public Service: Roles, Subrogation, and Ethics

Instructions and Orders of Service

The instruction or order of service is determined by the authority of a service, through which orders are given to staff. The utility commission is characterized by the following:

  • It should be made by an administrative act.
  • It is to perform certain activities.
  • It is limited in time.
  • It cannot mean an official expense.
  • It can mean the transfer of staff.

Subrogation

Subrogation is the automatic replacement mechanism established by law, so that an official is always in charge,

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Legislative Process: Understanding the Legislator’s Role

**Unit 17: Legislative Process for the Right**

**Legislator’s Role in Law Creation**

On the role of the legislature in drafting the law, there are two well-defined schools:

**Natural Law School:** This school maintains that the law is the product of reason, a mere result of human thought. It is the product of reflection, where man discovers a set of ideal rules of conduct, immutable, universal, and perfect as natural law. This school sees natural law as superior to the will of the legislature and believes

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Foundations and Schools of Thought in Psychology

General Psychology

General psychology studies mental processes and conduct in the normal individual. Key historical perspectives include:

  • Rationalism (Mentalism): Descartes proposed a duality of mind and body (res cogitans and res extensa) and introduced the concept of reflex. Leibniz posited that monads, through pre-established harmony, reflect individual behavior. He also differentiated between conscious, unconscious, and perception.
  • Empiricism (Behaviorism): Emphasized the role of senses over innate
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Key Events in US History: 1784-1893

State of Franklin (John Sevier) 1784-1790

Shays’ Rebellion 1786-1787

Federalists:

Favored ratification of the Constitution, a strong central government, and a weaker state government.

North Carolina Ratification Convention (1/2) 1788/1789

Federalist/Democratic:

  • Alexander Hamilton 1788 – Federalist Papers

Republican:

  • Thomas Jefferson 1790 – American political party

Dismal Swamp Canal

1859 – Important route of commerce

Whiskey Rebellion

1791 – Tax protest in the US

Treaty of Greenville/Fallen Timber

1814 – Friendship

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Natural Law and the School of Exegesis: A Legal Analysis

Jusnaturalism

A) Positive Law and Justice

Natural law is the oldest current of legal thought. It supports the existence of another normative order in nature, composed of abstract principles aimed at protecting human dignity and the essential values related to it (life, liberty, etc.).

B) The Jusnaturalistic Design

Natural law is a current that brings together various legal theories that have in common the identification of a juridical order that is natural, superior, and anterior to positive law. Natural

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