Abraham Maslow's Humanistic Approach

Schultz and Schultz (2013) concurs Abraham Maslow's humanistic approach based on his needs-hierarchy theory and Albert Bandura's cognitive-behavioral approach on his modeling theory have advanced the ideas to explain the human personality. Maslow's ultimate goal was "each person is born with the same set of instinctive needs that enable us to grow, develop, and fulfill our potential (p. 243)." He believed both environmental and psychological factors are needed to be present within the development to achieve "self-actualization or reach our highest potential as humans." In Maslow's theory is similar ideas on environment and Bandura's premise the world around us: (a) what we see, (b) what we feel, (c) what we experience are casual factors producing our behaviors. Schultz and Schultz (2013) states Maslow was the founder and spiritual leader of the humanistic psychology movement and he did not believe humans studied on only abnormality and emotional disturbed sampling yields only a crippling psychology ignoring the positive human qualities.
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On one hand, interdisciplinary research requires a disseminate of knowledge which promotes unyielding integrative psychotherapy. It proves to be flexible and it firms the practitioner's personalistic attributes while addressing the uniqueness of the client. An example of an eclectic counselor would experience their client a positive outcome to a technique and be satisfied, as a consequence the client is merely trying to please the counselor and adapt to the counselor's view than become fully empowered in self. Gilliland, James, and Bower (1989) as cited by Lazarus and Beutler (1999) contend "bits and pieces from different theoretical systems can be integrated within one counseling session with a client, to provide a stronger therapeutic treatment" (p.