Humanistic Approach Flashcards
Assumptions
Behaviour is a result of free will as we are active agents who have the ability to determine out own development
- person centred approach as it is a subjective experience
Approach is
holistic and rejects universal laws
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Self-actualisation
Self - esteem
Love + belongingness
Safety + security
Physiological needs
- 4 lower levels need to be met to be self actualised
- self actualisation = innate tendency that each of us want to achieve our full potential and become the best we possible can
Personal growth
Concerned with developing and changing as a person to become fulfilled, satisfied, and goal orientated
- not everyone can achieve due to psychologcial barriers
Focus on the self
Rogers
- perception of what and who I am
- personal growth required concept of self and ideal self to be congruent, if incongruent, self-actualisation if not possible
- lack of unconditional positive regard from paretns by having conditions of worth will lead to future psychological problems for child
Client centred therapy
Roger
- therapist should provide client with genuiness, empathy, unconditional positive regard
- aim is to increase self worth and lower incongruence
AO3 + Positive approach
positive image of human condition as says people are in control of their lives with the freedom to change
AO3 + holistic
Considers whole person and their subjective experience which has high validity as considers behaviour in real world context
AO3 - no empirical evidence to support claims
As has few concepts which can be reduced to one sings variable and measured
AO3 - cultural bias
Associated with individualist cultures in the west so can’t be applied universally
AO3 - limited application
As anti-scientific
AO3 + application
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and counselling techniques used to explain motivation especially in the workplace
