A phenomenological approach to adjustment theory.

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The objective or normative approach of traditional psychology has been of little aid in therapy with atypical persons. A more useful theory is developing with the client-centered or phenomenological approach, which postulates that the objective situation is less important than the subject's self-perception. The maladjusted person perceives his self-concept as threatened either by his own actions or by the environment. The individual selects his perceptions in terms of his self-definition, thus perpetuating errors. Therapy, to be successful, must relieve the threat enough to permit altered self perception and more adequate perception of the environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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