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Humanistic - Coggle Diagram
Humanistic
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Rogerian therapy, conditions of worth and Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Rogerian therapy aims to reduce gap between twp selfs - increasing likelihood of achieving congruence + self-actualisation
Rogers + Maslow - conditions of low self-esteem originate in childhood - adults restrict love by imposing conditions of worth. This represents a lack of unconditional positive regard
Rogerian therapy views a good therapist as open, genuine, empathetic and provides unconditional positive regard
Therapies views patients as 'experts' of their conditions - encourages to arrive at their own solutions to problems (with therapist help)
Hierarchy: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, self-actualisation
Evaluation
- Practical application to therapy - Roger's client-centred therapy major impact on counselling - beneficial due to acknowledging free will and the ability to improve yourself, through focusing on developing solutions
Not suitable for treating serious mental disorders
- Holistic approach - focusing on the individual's subjective experience as a whole - refreshing alternative compared to reductionist explanations
- Untestable and subjective concepts - lack empirical evidence and no possibility of systematically observing and measuring the processes
Self-actualisation cannot be measured, congruence may be up to personal judgement
Little to improve scientific credibility of humanism and psychology...
- A culture-bound explanation of behaviour - ideas can mostly be viewed as attitudes typical of western, individualistic cultures, where the needs of the individual are greater than the group. Therefore due to cultural bias, it may be more readily accepted by western cultures as opposed to eastern collective cultures...
Assumptions
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Sees self-actualisation (being at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs) as a crucial part of being human
Due to free will, we have the ability to progress through the hierarchy of needs to better ourselves