Humanistic theories emphasize on personal responsibility and innate tendencies towards personal growth.
• Human beings are fully functioning psychologically healthy persons who live life to the fullest; live in the here and now.
• Rogers spoke of discrepancy between real self and ideal self - maladjustment and adjustment.
• Rogers proposed two basic assumptions: a) Humans are goal-directed and worthwhile; b) People choose adaptive and self-actualizing behavior.
• All human beings need unconditional positive regard, freedom of choice and feeling of fulfilment for attainment of self-actualization.
• Maslow’s Self-Actualization- a state where people have reached their own fullest potential. According to him, human beings are free to shape their lives and to self-actualize.
