humanistic approach

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what are the main assumptions of the humanistic approach
active agents- ability to determine our own development all humans are unique so generalised research is invalid , self-actualisation
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what is meant by self-actualisation
every human has an innate tendency to achieve their full potential and has a desire to grow psychologically, it is the uupermost level of maslows hierarchy of needs, and cannot be achieved until all lower levels are achieved
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what is free-will
ability to make decisions without the influence of external factors
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what is congruence
aligning of- selfconcept, real self and dieal self, is essential for self-actualisation
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outline the five levels of maslows hierarchy of needs
self-actualisation self-esteem love and belongingness safety and security physiological needs
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outline rogerian therapy
person-cnetred and non-directional uncondiitonal psotive regard tries to reduce the gap between self-concept and ideal self aims to increase a persons feelings of self-worth, reduce the level of incongruence between sc/is and hlep the client to bec
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outline the strengths of the humanistic approach
practical application such as client-cnetred therapy self-emporing and 'brings the person back into psychology' positive and follows free will- provides postive motivation to change behaviour not reductionist or holistic so has more validity than t
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outline the limitations of the humanistic approach
vague cocnepts that are difficult to test therefore it is short of emprical evidence to support its claims therefore it has limited application culturaly biast as tends to favour individualist cultures ( focus is on self) whereas collectivist cultur
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