Humanistic Perspective

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Humanistic Perspective

• importance of self and fulfillment of potential

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• Personality how you feel about yourself, how
  you are meeting your goals

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Humanistic Perspective

• Free will
• Self-awareness
• Psychological growth
• Focus on healthy personality
• Individuals conscious, subjective opinion of
  self is most important

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Maslow, Hierarchy of needs and
Self-Actualization

• Module 25 Psychodynamic and Humanistic
  Perspectives

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Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

• Humanistic psychologist who developed the
  hierarchy of needs
• Believed that self-actualization is the ultimate
  psychological need

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Hierarchy of Needs

• Maslows pyramid of human needs, beginning at the
  base with physiological needs, proceeding through
  safety needs and then to psychological needs
• Higher-level needs wont become active until
  lower-level needs have been satisfied.

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Self-Actualization

• According to Maslow, the need to live up to ones
  fullest and unique potential
• Characteristics include
• Self aware and self accepting
• Open, spontaneous, loving, and caring
• Not paralyzed by others opinions
• Focused on a particular task

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
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Now time to process

• Get a whos who worksheet.
• Fill it out for you circle the phrase that
  applies to you
• Take 15 minutes- talk to as many classmates as
  you can
• For each person you get put their initials on
  the line

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The Humanistic PerspectiveCarl Rogers and the
Person-Centered Approach

• Module 25 Psychodynamic and Humanistic
  Perspectives

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Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

• Humanistic psychologist who stressed the
  importance of acceptance, genuineness, and
  empathy in fostering human growth

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Carl Rogers

• Self-conceptset of perceptions you hold about
  yourself

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• Positive regardsense of being loved and valued
  by other people--can be conditional or
  unconditional

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Conditional Positive Regard

• I love you when you are doing what I approve of-
  if not, I will withdraw my love

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Unconditional Positive Regard

• I love you no matter what you say or do
• I still might be mad, but you know I love you-
  you can tell me anything

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The Humanistic PerspectiveAssessing Personality
and the Self

• Module 25 Psychodynamic and Humanistic
  Perspectives

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Humanistic Measures

• Humanistic measures of personality center on
  evaluating a persons self concept--all of our
  thought and feelings about ourselves
• Answer the question Who Am I?

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The Humanistic PerspectiveEvaluating the
Perspective

• Module 25 Psychodynamic and Humanistic
  Perspectives

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Evaluating Humanism

• Humanism has influenced therapy, child-rearing,
  and the workplace
• Laid the foundation for positive psychology

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Evaluating Humanism

• Difficult to test or validate scientifically
• Too optimistic, minimizing some of the more
  destructive aspects of human nature