Chapter 14

• Innate need to survive, to grow, and to enhance oneself
• drives all behavior

using the actualizing tendency as a frame of refernce for evaluating one's experience

your perceptions of reality are key in determining behavior in the world

difference between awareness and experience

sense of self allows one to reflect on him/herslef as a distinct object of which he /she is aware

need to recieve warmth, love, sympathy, care and respect and acceptane from relevant people in one's life

• parents tend to be their most loving when children behave in a certain way
• children pick up on these cues and helps children develop their conscious

need to feel positively about self

values tat they have adopted from others

may be unhappy with a persons actions, however let them know that you will always love them.

experienced when a person subcieves an experience as being incompatible with one's self structre

detection of an experience before it enters full awareness

• focus on the present
• become aware of feelings as they occur rather than gaining insights into their childhood origins of feelings

• client and therapist must be in psychological contact
• client must be in a state of incongruence
• therapist is congruent with the client
• therappist must provide unconditional positive regard
• therapist must seek empathetic understanding of clients phenomenological reality

• ffirst record and film theraoy session
• q sort technique developed by william stephenson

• way of assessing who you are at this point in life
• real slef vs self sort
• ideal self and ideal sort
• if idea and real self are aligned have a correlation of +1.