Approaching mindful multicultural case formulation: Rogers, Yalom, and existential phenomenology

Abstract

Narrow or restricted case formulation considerations can limit therapeutic effectiveness, limit the lived base of evidence guiding psychotherapy, and contribute to psychotherapist microaggressions. Notably, Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) and existential phenomenology have, in combination, actively maintained that the cultural landscapes or interconnected world horizons of historical, contextual, and sociocultural matters are inseparable from lived experience. In what can be understood as mindfulness perspectives in their own right, the non-judgmental and presence-centered emphases of PCT and existential phenomenology are suited for mindful and meditative attunement to socioculturally diverse clients. This article sets out to begin providing a basis for person-world centered case formulation themes that are mindfully and meditatively linked with a psychotherapist's depthful ontological attunement and cultural or contextual pan-experiential attunement to clients. These interdependent forms of Humanistic Existential Psychotherapy (HEP) attunement can open onto multiculturally informed person-world centered themes that may contribute to experiential restructuring and sociocultural self-actualization. As a way to enhance HEP's sociocultural sensitivity, existential givens, phenomenological themes, and multicultural worldview values are integratively re-visioned as Sociocultural Lifeworld Themes.Envisager la formulation de cas multiculturelle consciemment réfléchie -Rogers, Yalom et la phénoménologie existentielle.Des présentations de cas étroitement ou restrictivement réfléchies peuvent limiter l'efficacité thérapeutique, altérer la prise en compte de l'expérience vécue comme base de la thérapie et contribuer à des microagressions de la part du psychothérapeute. La Thérapie centrée sur la personne (TCP) et la phénoménologie existentielle ont soutenu activement ensemble l'idée que l'expérience vécue est inséparable des paysages culturels et des horizons mondiaux interconnectés dans leurs aspects historiques, contextuels et socioculturels. Dans ce que nous comprenons comme étant des perspectives pleinement conscientes à part entière, l'importance accordée par la TCP et la phénoménologie ARTICLE HISTORY

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