Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Key Approaches, The
Humanistic Approach
- Assumptions
- View humans as a whole
- Humans are unique and
should be viewed as such
- Humans have free will
- Unlike behaviourist approach, deterministic
- Humans strive to
achieve self
actualisation
- Person centred therapy
- The client speaks the most and the therapist listens and
reflects on the clients thoughts and feelings. The client
has free will to decide changes
- the three "selves"
- Self concept
- The way a person sees themselves
- Ideal self
- The person we'd like to be
- Real Self
- The person we actually are
- Rogers thought of this
- Rogers
- unconditional positive regard allows you to reach self actualization
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Physiological (sex,food,sleep)
- Safety (our home environment)
- Love/Belonging (affection)
- Esteem (respect)
- Self actualization
- Strengths and limitations
- Strengths
- Views people as active agents
- Promotes the idea of personal
responsibility
- The subjective experience of a
person is of value and importance
- Person centred therapy
is still used today
- Limitations
- Hard to falsify, unscientific
- In rejecting the scientific method
the theories lack emperical
evidence
- Over emphisis on personal
ability to change
- Individual emotions and
conciousness are hard to study
objectivly