Humanistic Approach
- Created by: Beverley
- Created on: 15-05-13 14:06
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- Humanistic Approach
- Basic Assumption
- people have a unique experience of the world (have own phenomenology)
- emphasis on the self
- differences between the perceived self and ideal self
- conditions of worth
- behavior is motivated by the heirachy of need
- people have free will to determine their destiny
- compared with determinism of the behaviourist and biological approach
- Case study
- none! all client based therapy
- Carl Rogers theory of conditions of worth
- Maslow suggested the heirachy of needs
- Evaluation
- Weaknesses
- Unscientific
- rejects scientific methods and principles. Which means they can't be properly investigated
- concepts of self and self-actualization may not apply in other cultures
- the focus on the individual means that generalisations can't be made about all human behaviour
- perhaps unrealistically optimistic
- maybe some people can never self-actualise
- Unscientific
- Strengths
- client-centered therapy effective for minor problems and led to the growth of counselling
- credits the person as being responsible for their own behaviour
- offers a more optimistic view of human nature than the psychodynamic approach
- Weaknesses
- Application
- Client-centered therapy
- should be empathetic (appreciating the client's feelings)
- should be holistic (considering all aspects of a person)
- Client-centered therapy
- Research Methods
- Therapy
- Basic Assumption
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