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Unit 24: Psychotherapy: Environmental Approach

grown to the point where it can match the fields of social, personality, learning or cognitive Notes
psychology. To be sure, it has increased in membership, in the number of journals devoted to it, and
even in the amount of professional organizational support it enjoys, but not enough so that one
could look at any major university and find it to be a field of specialization in a department of
psychology, or, more importantly, in an interdisciplinary center or institute”

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Self Assessment

2. Multiple choice Questions :
Choose the correct option :
(i) ______ theorized one way to examine an individual’s environmental consciousness is to
recognize how the physical place is significant look at the people/place relationship.
(a) Leanne Rivlin (b) Roger Barker
(c) Jacob Von (d) Kurt Lewin

(ii) The earliest noteworthy discoveries in the field of environmental psychology were done by
______.
(a) Willy Hellpach (b) Roger Barker
(c) Alan Hirsch (d) Philip Koter
(iii) Discoveries of environmental approach were at research station in ______ in 1947.
(a) Newyork (b) Los Angeles
(c) Oskaloosa (d) Osake

24.8 Summary
• The importance of the field has increased in recent years owing to the increased concern with
the environment resulting from the pollution problems, problems posed by population
explosion, depletion of natural resources and the felt need to conserve wilderness.

• Environmental psychology : is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between
humans and their surroundings. The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing
natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and
informational environments.
• The origins of this field of study are unknown, however, Willy Hellpach is said to be the first
to mention “Environmental Psychology”. One of his books, Geopsyche discusses topics such
as how the sun and the moon affect human activity, the impact of extreme environments, and
the effects of color and form.
• Environmental psychology is a direct study of the relationship between an environment and
how that environment affects its inhabitants. Specific aspects of this field work by identifying
a problem and through the identification of said problem, discovering a solution. Therefore it
is necessary for environmental psychology to be problem oriented.
• One important aspect of a problem-oriented field is that by identifying problems, solutions
arise from the research acquired.

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