Strengths and weaknesses

• Strengths

  • Very positive approach stating people strive to be betters
• Strengths

  Free will is less restrictive than deterministic approaches
• Strengths

  Treats people as individuals and takes whole person into account rather than reducing individual behaviour to cause and effect
• Strengths

  Gathers qualitative data which is rich in detial
• Strengths

  Good counselling techniques arisen from approach
• Weaknesses

  • Less emphasis on factors such as genes (biology)
• Weaknesses

  Lacks objectivity, hard to test in a scientific way
• Weakness

  Idiographic approach means it doesn't create generalised laws applicable to everyone