Humanistic Approach

Humanistic Approach

1. Basic Assumptions

   • Individuals are free to choose their behaviour
   • Personal growth is a key concept
   • The focus is on the individual's subjective experience and conscious awareness

2. Researchers

   • Rogers and Maslow

3. Methods

   • Case studies

4. Applications and Impact

   • Client- centred therapy
   • Education/work
   • Childcare
     • Attachment :sensitive responsiveness, relationship between caregiver and infant
   • Can be helpful for people with disorders(incongruence)

5. Free will

   • How criminals choose to do deviant behaviour
   • Free will to take on the label in depression
   • Depression we have a choice on what we believe in (Depression negative self-schema)

6. Idiographic

   • No cultural bias => everyone has different experiences
   • harder to diagnose certain conditions due to not having a nomothetic approach (DSM-IV) such as Schizophrenia
     • Get us closer to finding out more complex disorders by not categorising them early

7. Nature/Nuture

   • wanting to meet self-acutalisation through models who can be deemed as something the individual ideally wants to be like (Forensics the parents influencing them to become a criminal)

8. Holistic

   • It looks at humans as a whole and not just simple components(neurons)