Humanistic Approach

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Psychology Mind Map on Humanistic Approach, created by shanclot on 04/02/2014.
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Humanistic Approach
  1. Basic Assumptions
    1. Individuals are free to choose their behaviour
      1. Personal growth is a key concept
        1. The focus is on the individual's subjective experience and conscious awareness
        2. Researchers
          1. Rogers and Maslow
          2. Methods
            1. Case studies
            2. Applications and Impact
              1. Client- centred therapy
                1. Education/work
                  1. Childcare
                    1. Attachment :sensitive responsiveness, relationship between caregiver and infant
                    2. Can be helpful for people with disorders(incongruence)
                    3. Free will
                      1. How criminals choose to do deviant behaviour
                        1. Free will to take on the label in depression
                          1. Depression we have a choice on what we believe in (Depression negative self-schema)
                          2. Idiographic
                            1. No cultural bias => everyone has different experiences
                              1. harder to diagnose certain conditions due to not having a nomothetic approach (DSM-IV) such as Schizophrenia
                                1. Get us closer to finding out more complex disorders by not categorising them early
                              2. Nature/Nuture
                                1. 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)
                                2. Holistic
                                  1. It looks at humans as a whole and not just simple components(neurons)
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