most popularly used in the 1800’s were called, structuralism and functionalism. Structuralism focuses on identifying and analysis basic elements of experiences. These experiences even include mental events like perception. Research for this form of approach to psychology comes from verbal accounts of experiences. Functionalism focuses on the belief that optimal learning conditions can be created by knowing how the brain uses and processes information; thereby it is considered perceptional also. As
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origins of this therapy with particular reference to Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers and examine the fundamental elements necessary for the therapy to be seen as patient centred. I will compare the benefits and disadvantages of Person-Centred Therapy and try to establish whether a therapist can treat all clients effectively using just the one approach or whether it is more beneficial to the client for the therapist to use a more multi-disciplinary approach. To be able to discuss this subject
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Maslow Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Tatiana Cadle-Taylor Barry University Abraham Maslow founded a movement—that valued individuality, creativity, and personal freedom— called the humanistic movement in the late 1950s. Maslow, born April, 1, 1908 (Abraham Harold Maslow, 2013), was the son of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants who came to the United States in the early 1900s seeking an escape from the Czarist persecution. His parents settled in New York City, where he attended public
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culture, or if it was an abnormal reaction. Offer and Sabshin (1974) claim there are four ways to discern the two, and while culture can help us figure out abnormal behavior, there are ways to find universal traits, both normal and abnormal. The first approach is using an agreement of experts to determine what is universal in maladaptive behavior; talking to non-existent
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environment during particular stages throughout childhood which lay the foundation for effective or ineffective development. Donnie McClurkin’s turbulent life from childhood could be explained through the perspectives of psychodynamic, trait, and humanistic theory by looking at his emotional, behavioral, and motivational development changes or lack of that may have influenced the situations that characterized his personality and life. Donnie McClurkin Donnie McClurkin was born Donald Andrew McClurkin
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developed the three elements of psychic apparatus to explain how the human mind works on creating and satisfying our urges. Those three elements were termed, the id, ego and superego (Snowden, 2006). The Humanistic approach in psychology was a reaction towards the Psychoanalytic theory. Humanistic psychologist criticized Freud’s theory
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15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. He never saw his birth father or his mother's first husband. His young Jewish mother raised Erik by herself for a time before marrying a physician, Dr. Theodor Homberger. The fact that Homberger was not in fact his biological father was held from him for many years. When he finally did learn the truth, he was left with a feeling of confusion about who he really was. This early experience helped spark his interest in the formation of identity.(Erik Erikson) In his stages
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Cognitive-Behavioral Approach as well as the Humanistic Approach. The Cognitive-Behavioral Approach was popular in the 1970s and they were used for depression as well as “treatment focusing on changing thinking, feeling, and expectations became as important as the goal of changing overt behavior” (Plante, 2011). The Humanistic Approach was more based off of philosophy and the theory that humans can grow from understanding experiences and behaviors. The humanistic approach believed in understanding
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personality characteristics and to explain how personality develops. Through personality research, a number of theories have developed to explain how and why certain personality traits develop. Over time, some theorists have developed an eclectic approach to
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these perspectives takes on a different theory of the causes and various psychological disorders with unique approaches to treatment. Freud started the psychodynamic approach, he theorized that people have “powerful motives that underlie their conscious intentions” (Kowalski & Western, 2005, p. 8). The psychodynamic approach includes all the theories in psychology that see human functioning based upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly unconscious, and between
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