process experiential psychotherapy

an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on the client’s moment-to-moment experience and guides his or her cognitive and affective processing in the direction of client-defined goals. The therapeutic alliance, internal patterns of viewing the self and others, and an emphasis on therapeutic process over content are core elements of this therapy. See also client-centered therapy; gestalt therapy; humanistic therapy. [proposed by South African-born Canadian psychologist Leslie S. Greenberg (1945– )]

Browse dictionary by letter

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Psychology term of the day

February 28th 2025

common metric

a unit or scale of measurement that is applied to data from different sources. In a meta-analysis, for instance, the results from multiple studies may need to be placed on a common metric so that they may be meaningfully compared.