Focus on the self

• Humans have a basic need to feel nurtured and valued by significant people in their lives, such as receiving parents' love, praise and acceptance
• People have two basic needs:

  o Positive regard from others

  o A feeling of self-worth
• Feelings of self-worth develop in childhood
• Rogers believed that how we think about ourselves are important in determining our psychological health
• If our self-concept and our "ideal self" are almost matched, then the greater our feelings of self- worth and the greater our psychological health
• positive regard from others
• a feeling of self-worth