ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will review humanism and the resilience construct and demonstrate 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.
