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Humanist Approach Flashcards

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What does the humanistic approach focus on?

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The whole of an individual’s experiences in order to understand psychology

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What is free will?

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Personal autonomy, independence in mind and behaviour

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What was Maslow interested in?

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Human potential and how we fulfill that potential, he proposed that people have a variety of defector needs which need to be meh in order to be able to develop to our full potential by meeting our growth needs

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What are the 5 needs in Maslow’s heirarchy of needs?

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  • Self actualisation
  • Self esteem needs
  • Love and belonging needs
  • Safety needs
  • Physiological needs
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What are physiological needs?

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  • Breathing
  • Food
  • Water
  • Sleep
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What are safety needs?

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Security of:
- Self
- Employment
- Health
- Property

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What are love and belonging needs?

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  • Friendship
  • Family
  • Sexual intimacy
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What are self esteem needs?

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  • Self esteem
  • Confidence
  • Achievement
  • Respect of others
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What is self actualisation?

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  • Morality
  • Creativity
  • Problem solving
  • Lack of prejudice
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What did Rodger’s believe?

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All people are innately programmed to strive for personal growth, however the way we perceive ourselves or the experiences we have with others can sometimes interfere with this

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What is our self concept?

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The way we see ourselves

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When did he believe our self concept develops?

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Early childhood and is dependent on how others treat and reflect back to us

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What is our ideal self?

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This is what we would like ourselves to be like

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How is someone’s self esteem calculated?

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By observing the difference between the self concept and ideal self

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What is congruence?

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When someone’s self concept and ideal self are very close. The person’s self esteem wil be good

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What is incongruent?

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Where there is a big difference with the self concept being much lower than the ideal self, then the person will have a low self esteem

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What are conditions of worth?

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This is when a person experiences relationships where people set conditions or boundaries on their love (I will only love you if)

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What is conditional postive regard?

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Illustrated by a child who experiences that their parent knit loves them kf they are good or clever

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What did Rodger’s believe?

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That this experience of consitions in worth in childhood can lead to psychological problems for the child in the future

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What is unconditional positive regard?

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A parent who accepts and loves their child for who and what they are

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What is Rodger’s counselling?

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Person centred counselling

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What does person centred counselling do?

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Works on the basis that the client knows themselves best and has the capacity to change

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What does person centred counselling offer?

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A warm, supportive and non judgemental environment in which clients are encouraged to freely talk, recognising that clients are the experts in their lives and can often find their own solutions

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What are the 3 main elements of the counselling?

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  1. Unconditional positive regard
  2. Empathy
  3. Congruence
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What happens in the unconditional positive regard stage?

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The counsellor does not give instructions, they just show they understand what the client is saying by offering reflections and offering unconditional positive regard without imposing conditions of worth

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What happens in the empathy stage?

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The counsellor shows empathy to the client’s experiences

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What happens in the congruence stage?

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The counsellor allows the client to express themselves as they really are and genuinely belehebs ghag the client has potential tk change and achieve self actualisation

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What are 3 evaluation points?

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  • Emphasises free will which is ignored by other approaches
  • Individual experiment so cannot be generalised
  • Effective

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