an individual must gain insight into their own life from a broad range of perspectives before any insights into emotional and behavioural problems
people don't just experience emotional distress and psychological conflicts, they also have the ability to gain self-awareness, develop values, a sense of meaning, and pursue freedom of choice
if these abilities are positively developed and encouraged, psychopathology can be resolved
the aim is to resolve psychological problems through insight, personal development and self-actualisation
relatively uninterested in the origins of psychopathology, focus more on alleviating the symptoms through personal development
client-centred therapy - stresses goodness of human nature, assumes that if individuals are unrestricted by fears and conflicts, they will develop into well-adjusted, happy individuals
therapist creates supportive climate, client is helped to acquire positive self-worth. use of empathy, unconditional positive regard
hard to evaluate - most controlled studies indicate that individuals undergoing client-centred therapy tend to fair no better than those undergoing non-therapeutic control treatments

	Created by Zoe Bayliss over 10 years ago

basics of biological and psychological models of abnormal behaviour. not applied to any disorders.