PS271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Abraham Maslow, Unconditional Positive Regard, Humanistic Psychology
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Chapter 11: the humanisic approach: theory, applicaion, and assessment. Existenial philosophy: addresses the meaning of human existence, role of free will, and uniqueness of. March. 1. 16 each human being: existenial psychotherapy focuses on existenial anxiety. Ideas promoted by carl rogers and abraham maslow. Personal responsibility: people are responsible for what happens to tem. Here and now: people become fully funcioning individuals when they live their lives as it happens. Experience of the individual: therapists provide therapeuic atmosphere that allows clients to help themselves. Personal growth: people are moivated to progress toward some ulimately saisfying state of being. Muliple choice (which of the following is not kinda thing) When faced with extreme threatening informaion, one relies on defenses: distorion and denial. Condiional posiive regard: love is based on behaving according to expectaions: leads to denial of one"s weaknesses. Moives ideniied by maslow: deiciency moives: results from a lack of needed object.
