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Human Givens

The Human Givens approach is a bio-psycho-social model of psychotherapy developed in the UK and Ireland by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell.

We all have various needs and these various needs have to be met. These are the 'givens' that are required to help us meet our emi. Whenever our emotional needs are not met, or when our resources are being used incorrectly, we suffer considerable distress. And so can those around us.

As stated at Mindfields.org.uk;

These 'givens' are:

 

  • security - our environment and those around us.
  • attention - to give and receive it;
  • a sense of autonomy and control;
  • feeling part of a wider community; 
  • emotional intimacy ? to know that at least one other person accepts us totally for who we are, 'warts 'n' all';
  • a sense of status within social groupings;
  • a sense of competence and achievement (which comes from successful learning and effectively applying skills - the antidote to low self-esteem);
  • privacy (opportunity to reflect on and consolidate our experiences);
  • a sense of meaning and purpose which comes from being stretched in what we think and do.                                                                                     


The methods used in Human Givens are from a variety of approaches. CBT (Cognitive behaviour Therapy), NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), Hypnosis, Psychodynamic (use of transferences and patterns in the past), Neuroscience, Positive Psychology and more. Many ideas and approaches appear to have been collapsed and used in the Human Givens approach. It does take the best and use the best in its work.

 

'The clarity of thinking behind it, and the fact that it incorporates the best tried and tested concepts, tools and techniques from other models (where there is empirical evidence to support them), but sets them in a larger organising idea about brain function and the importance of the REM state'.

(http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/human-givens-new-approach-to-treating-depression-originated-in-the-uk-$1250842$462844.htm
  • Sessions under Human Givens will run for 4 sessions minimum as time is required for assessment and development of client agenda and psycho-education in techniques and methods.