Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Humanistic
Approach
- Basic Assumptions
- Individuals are free to
choose their
behaviour
- Personal growth is
a key concept
- The focus is on the
individual's subjective
experience and conscious
awareness
- Researchers
- Rogers and Maslow
- Methods
- Case studies
- Applications and Impact
- Client- centred therapy
- Education/work
- Childcare
- Attachment :sensitive
responsiveness, relationship
between caregiver and infant
- Can be helpful for people
with
disorders(incongruence)
- Free will
- How criminals choose to do
deviant behaviour
- Free will to take on the label in depression
- Depression we have a choice on
what we believe in (Depression
negative self-schema)
- Idiographic
- No cultural bias => everyone
has different experiences
- harder to diagnose certain conditions due
to not having a nomothetic approach
(DSM-IV) such as Schizophrenia
- Get us closer
to finding out
more complex
disorders by
not
categorising
them early
- Nature/Nuture
- wanting to meet self-acutalisation through
models who can be deemed as something
the individual ideally wants to be like
(Forensics the parents influencing them to
become a criminal)
- Holistic
- It looks at humans as a
whole and not just
simple components(neurons)