BASIC ASSUMPTIONS

• A tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to more complex forms

  Formative tendency
• • The tendency within all humans and other animals and plants to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials
  • This tendency is the only motive people possess

  Actualizing tendency
• The tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo

  Maintenance
• • Strong desire to maintain the status quo
  • They are willing to learn and change
  • The need to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth

  Enhancement
• People have within themselves blank to solve problems, to alter their self concepts, and to become increasingly self-directed

  Creative power
• • People must be involved in a relationship with a partner who possess these things
  • This permit them to actualize their innate tendency towards self fulfillment

  Congruent, Empathy, Unconditional Positive Regards