HOLISTIC-DYNAMIC THEORY (Abraham Maslow)

Question 1

HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Answer 1

1. Physiological Needs
2. Safety Needs
3. Social Belongingness and Love Needs
4. Esteem Needs
5. Self-Actualization Needs

a. Aesthetic Needs
b. Cognitive Needs
c. Neurotic Needs

Question 2

which is the need to help other people to achieve
self-actualization

Answer 2

Transcendence

Question 3

General Discussion of Needs

Answer 3

1. Reversed Order of Needs
2. Unmotivated Behavior
3. Expressive and Coping Behavior
4. Deprivation of Needs
5. Instinctoid Nature of Needs

Question 4

Four criteria must be met before a person
achieves self-actualization

Answer 4

(1) absence of psychopathology
(2) satisfaction of each of the four lower level
needs
(3) acceptance of the B-values
(4) full realization of one’s potentials for growth.

Question 5

held that self-actualizers are motivated by the
“eternal verities,” which he called B-values.
Maslow termed B-values “metaneeds”

Answer 5

Values of Self-Actualizers

Question 6

-fear of being or doing one’s best.

Answer 6

The Jonah Complex

Question 7

-aim of therapy would be for clients to embrace tha
B-values that is to value, truth, justice, goodness,
simplicity, and so forth.
- The therapy is largely an interpersonal process.
Through a warm, loving, interpersonal relationship
with the therapist, the clients gains satisfaction of
love and belongingness and thereby acquires
feelings of confidence and self-worth.

Answer 7

Maslow’s Psychotherapy