Psychological Perspectives - Humanistic Approach

Health and Social Care National Extended Diploma
Psychological Perspective: Humanistic Approach
The humanistic approach is a psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at human behaviour not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving.
Key Theorists of the humanistic approach includes Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Car Rogers (1902 –1987) was an influential American psychologist and theorist, and among the founders of the humanistic approach (or otherwise known as, the client-centered approach) to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research. He believed that people are fundamentally good. In the table below there are three 3 aspects of his theory and a definition to go with them.
