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Rogerian Theory: humanistic psychology
Essential worth of the whole person
Creativity
Free choice/personal responsibility
Spontaneity [the more spontaneity the more creative]
Internationalism
Subjective experience [what’s going on inside of you at this time]
Present rather than past future
Humanism psychology assumptions
People are capable of solving their own psychological problems
Under the right conditions, people move toward psychological growth/fulfillment
Existentialism
Rollo May
People “are free and responsible and have choice at the core of their existence” (Allen, 2000, p. 200).
Phenomenology
The world as I perceive and experience it at this moment
Underscores importance of getting into the client’s world of meaning
The General Actualizing Tendency
The built-in motivation (biological tendency) present in every life-form to maintain or enhance itself
Four significant characteristics:
Organismic [nature, biological, predisposition]
Active process
Directional
Selective
Model of Health
Healthy people are:
Fully aware
Honest
Personally satisfied
Spontaneous
Trust themselves
Driven from within rather than controlled by external forces
Open to and “fully alive to the moment” (Jones and Butman, 1991, p. 259)
Growing
Model of abnormality
Conflicts between who I am (caught-concept formed by self-experiences) and who I should be (ideal self)
“This is me, God knows me.” Michelle
Enjoy,
-Pate
Rogerian Theory: humanistic psychology
Essential worth of the whole person
Creativity
Free choice/personal responsibility
Spontaneity [the more spontaneity the more creative]
Internationalism
Subjective experience [what’s going on inside of you at this time]
Present rather than past future
Humanism psychology assumptions
People are capable of solving their own psychological problems
Under the right conditions, people move toward psychological growth/fulfillment
Existentialism
Rollo May
People “are free and responsible and have choice at the core of their existence” (Allen, 2000, p. 200).
Phenomenology
The world as I perceive and experience it at this moment
Underscores importance of getting into the client’s world of meaning
The General Actualizing Tendency
The built-in motivation (biological tendency) present in every life-form to maintain or enhance itself
Four significant characteristics:
Organismic [nature, biological, predisposition]
Active process
Directional
Selective
Model of Health
Healthy people are:
Fully aware
Honest
Personally satisfied
Spontaneous
Trust themselves
Driven from within rather than controlled by external forces
Open to and “fully alive to the moment” (Jones and Butman, 1991, p. 259)
Growing
Model of abnormality
Conflicts between who I am (caught-concept formed by self-experiences) and who I should be (ideal self)
“This is me, God knows me.” Michelle
Enjoy,
-Pate
