Humanist approach

• Maslow's hierarchy of needs from bottom to top

  Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, self esteem needs, self actualisation
• What are deficiency needs?

  Physiological, safety, love and belonging, self esteem
• What are growth needs?

  Self actualisation
• What is congurence?

  Where their real self and ideal self are similar
• What is incongruent?

  When their real self and ideal self are very different
• What is unconditional positive regard?

  Attitude of complete acceptance and support of a person
• What is conditions of worth?

  Constraints an individual believes are put upon them by significant others that they deem necessary to gain positive regard
• What is counselling psychology?

  Modern psychotherapy- widely applied today

  Issues stem from conditions of worth and unconditional positive regard

  Therapist facilitate rather than direct and foster a warm judgmental atmosphere

  goal is to boost self worth, reduced incongruence and promote authentic, fully functioning behaviour