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Ecohumanism: Integrating humanism and resilience theory.

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Lewis, Rolla E.

Citation

Lewis, R. E. (2012). Ecohumanism: Integrating humanism and resilience theory. In M. B. Scholl, A. S.
McGowan, & J. T. Hansen (Eds.), Humanistic perspectives on contemporary counseling issues (pp. 191-214).
New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Abstract

In this chapter the author reviews humanism and the resilience construct and demonstrates ways ecohumanism
provides a theoretical and practical integration of these perspectives. Ecohumanism connects the resilience
construct to humanistic counseling by linking the systems perspective inherent in the resilience literature with
humanistic counseling's concern for individual self-actualization. In this chapter, ecohumanism is defined as a way of
viewing human beings as embedded in chronological, social, and biological contexts where they develop in time, as
social beings, and as part of the natural world. Each of us is born at a unique historic moment characterized by
distinctive cultural connections within any variety of biological and social ecologies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c)
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