Humanistic apprach

• Humanistic approach

  Understanding behaviour that puts emphasis on the importance of each experience and a persons capacity for self determination
• Free will and humanistic approach

  Believes we are still effected by external factors but we are all active agents that determine our own development
• Due to the idea of free will Rogers and Maslow reject more scientific methods
• Maslows hierarchy of needs


  Believes our primary goal is self actualisation

  A) physilological needs

  B) safety needs

  C) Belongingness and love needs

  D) Esteem needs

  E) Self actualisation

  
• All the lower needs on Maslows hierarchy are deficiency needs
• Carl Rogers

  Argued for personal growth the individuals concept of self must be equivalent to their ideal self

  • In order to combat this he came up with the idea of client centered therapy
  • An adults feeling of worthlessness comes from conditional love as a child
• Evaluation - strength - Not reductionist

  A person can only be understood by considering them as a whole person

  Counterpoint - Reductionist approaches are more scientific
• Evaluation - Strength - Optimistic

  Brings the person back into psychology
• Evaluation - Cultural bias - Limitation

  • Humanist approach is more about an individualistic approach
  • In collectivist cultures self actualisation might not be as importaint