How Therapeutic Assessment Became Humanistic

Abstract Therapeutic Assessment is a semi‐structured form of collaborative psychological assessment that grew out of efforts to make psychological assessment a positive and beneficial experience for clients. Although we developed this approach without being highly informed about humanistic psychology, gradually our work with clients led us toward more humanistic techniques and principles. We describe some of these techniques and their relationship to the efficacy of Therapeutic Assessment. This article describes the links between Therapeutic Assessment and humanistic psychology, detailing how humanistic practices were gradually incorporated into the methods of Therapeutic Assessment and highlighting those aspects that are clearly compatible with humanistic principles.