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)