EVALUATION

• EVALUATION?

  + holistic

  + real world application

  -lacks scientific credibility

  + idiographic

  -cultural bias
• HOLISTIC?

  • looks at whole individual not just single individual components
  • looks at range of subjective experiences and emotions
  • not overlooked like in a reductionist approach
• REAL WORLD APPLICATION?

  • leads to successful development of effective counselling therapies
  • helps clients find own solutions to problems
  • improves mental health of patients
  • economic benefits
• LACKS SCIENTIFIC CREDIBILITY?

  • congruence and free will are difficult to study objectively
  • cannot be operationalised/ quantified
  • approach is weak
  • cannot be tested under controlled conditions
• IDIOGRAPHIC?

  • rejects nomothetic approaches
  • focuses on individual and unique personal experience
  • rather than generalising
• CULTURALLY BIASED?

  • culturally biased
  • ideas central to humanistic psychology readily associated with individualist countries
  • does not apply universally