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What is the

Humanistic Approach About?

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• Thehumanisticapproachsees people

as individualhumans whowe might notunderstand

but weACCEPT.

• We acceptthat everyone

is different

Christopher

Paul Neil

Paedophile 

The Queen

Katie Price

Howeasy doyou find

it toacceptthese

people?

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Unconditional

means ‘withoutconditions’.

If you haveunconditional

positive regard forsomeone thismeans it is withoutconditions on theirbehaviour –  youhave a positiveregard for ALLhumans no matterwhat they havedone.

How difficult is it for youto have unconditional

positive regard for Hitler?

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The Humanisticapproach says weshould separate out

someone’s behaviourfrom the fact that theyare a human being.

It says that every

human beingdeservers to belistened to without judgement.

ChristopherPaul NeilPaedophile 

How easy do you find it to benon-judgemental towards

Christopher Neil?

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The humanistic approach isdependent on ACTIVELISTENING.

When is it hard to listen topeople?

•Get distracted

•Don’t agree with whatthey are saying

•Prejudiced about theirclothes/accent etc

•Not interested in what theyare saying

•Other reasons?

How easy would you

find it to actively listento this woman?

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The humanistic

approach says that we

have to seek to

empathise withindividuals. What is

empathy? What is

sympathy?

Use handout PP11 and

PP12 to explore

empathy Empathy requires you to put

yourself in someone else’sshoes

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How do we see

ourselves?List how you seeyourself in terms

of yourappearance anddifferent roles in

life

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How we see ourselves and is made from:

• What we are told as children which is then internalised

• How we judge ourselves according to what we succeedand fail in

• Physical attributes –  am I fat, thin, blonde etc

• The Ideal Self represents a view of ourselves as we feel we

should be & would like to be. If there is a mismatchbetween our actual self & the ideal self Rogers says webecome troubled and unhappy

The humanistic approach is interested in self-concept because

it believes it helps us to understand behaviour

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• This refers to how much wefeel we are valuable.

• Someone with high self-esteem will believe they areloved and lovable, important

and valued.

• Someone with low self-esteem may feel worthless,of no value, unloved and

unlovable.

The humanistic approachbelieves everyone has thepropensity to be loved and

wishes to help improve aperson’s self-esteem.