HUMAN NEEDS

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HUMAN NEEDS

• MASLOWS
• HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

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Physiological Needs

• Basic, biological.
• Survival needs food, water, oxygen, elimination
  of waste, sleep and protection from extreme
  temperatures.
• If any of these needs go unmet, death will occur.

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Safety and Security

• Important when physiological needs are met
• Free from anxiety, fear the need for order and
  routine
• Prefer familiar to unknown.
• New environments, change in routine, marital
  problems, job loss, injury, disease can threaten
  a persons safety

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Love and Affection

• Strives for love and affection after safety and
  physiological needs are met.
• Social acceptance, friendship, and to be loved.
• More willing to adapt to change and face unknown
  situations.
• Sexuality both a love and affection need and
  physiological one

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Love and Affection

• Sexuality is defined by peoples feelings
  concerning their masculinity or femininity
• Ability to give and receive love
• Roles in reproduction.
• Involves a persons feelings and attitudes
• Sexuality extends throughout life cycle
• Gender/name-Couples sharing nursing home rooms.

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Esteem

• Feeling important and worthwhile
• When others show respect, approval, and
  appreciationfeelings of self esteemself
  respect.
• Individuals engage in activities that bring
  achievement, success, and recognition in an
  effort to maintain self esteem
• Failureloss of confidencelack of self esteem

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Esteem

• Once esteem needs are met
• Confidentstrives to become what they want to be.

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Self Actualization

• Self Realization All other needs must be met at
  least in part before self actualization can
  occur.
• People have reached full potentials, and have
  become exactly what they want to be.
• Confident, willing to express beliefs and STICK
  to them. Also, willing to reach out to others
  and provide assistance and support

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Methods of Satisfying Needs

• Direct hard work, realistic goals, situation
  evaluation, cooperation with others.
• EX student consistently making good grades by
  studying, setting goals, listening more in class,
  asking questions,
• Evaluate situation, by determining why they
  failed in the first place..and taking steps to
  correct the situation

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Methods cont

• Indirect Defense Mechanisms methods used for
  maintaining self esteem and relieving discomfort.
• Defense mechanisms can be usefulsome coping
  ability
• Harmful when used too much and people substitute
  them for more effective ways of coping.

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