humanist approach

• basic assumptions

  -focuses on conscious experience rather than behaviour

  -personal responsibility and freewill rather than determinism

  -discussion of experience rather than use of experimental method

  BY CARL RODGERS AND ABRAHAM MASLOW

  -concerned with topics more meaningful to humans

  -emphasises importance of striving towards personal growth and fulfilment
• freewill: these theories emphasise that humans have full conscious control over their destiny, but subject to other forces. i.e. societal and biological factors. we ae able to make significant personal choices within these constraints
• Maslow's theory


  believed in positive psychology: what could go right with people. his hierarchy of needs highlighted importance of personal growth and fulfilment