Humanistic Approach

• What are the five levels of Maslow's hierarchy in order?

  Self accusation (To be your best)

  Esteem (Respect and status)

  Love and Belonging (Friends and family)

  Safety needs (house and health)

  Psychological needs (Sleep and food)
• Why does incongruence prohibit self actualisation?

  Due to the negative feelings of self worth
• Give some key assumptions for the humanistic approach

  We have free will to make our own decisions, we're active agents in our lives.

  We're self determining creatures who choose our own destiny.

  Personal growth is essential, we're innately driven towards self improvement.

  Reaching our absolute potential is self actualisation.
• How can problems due to conditions of love be alleviated in adulthood?

  Through client centred therapy. The client is shown unconditional positive regard from the therapist.
• What did Rodgers call it if parents set boundaries on love?

  Rodgers called this conditions of love
• What is Rodgers conditions of worth?

  The idea that many issues we face in adulthood is due to a lack of unconditional positive regard from parents at childhood.
• Explain Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

  A five-levelled heirarchy sequence in which basic psychological needs must be met before higher psychological needs can be achieved.
• What's the phrase used to describe how you achieve congruence?

  You must 'close the gap' between your ideal self and your actual self to achieve congruence.
• What is congruence?

  Our ideal self and actual self being similar or identical.
• What did Rodgers argue there must be for personal growth to be achieved?

  There must be congruence between the self concept (how we perceive ourselves) and the ideal self
• Which is client centred therapy? [3]

  It's a therapy designed by Rodgers to help reduce the gap between the actual self and the ideal self. This is done by giving the patient unconditional positive regard.