Vol.2 No.4
Year: 2013
Issue: Nov-Jan
Title : Love and Belonging:
Strategies to help Mentally ill Patients
Author Name : Shirin Rahim
Synopsis :
Love and belonging is a concept,
used by Abraham Maslow (a humanistic psychologist) in his motivation theory.
Love and belonging is one of the human needs in Maslow’s hierarchy and required
to be fulfilled in order to achieve self actualization. According to Lisbeth
(2003) “Because of the social nature of humans and the long developmental
period from birth to adulthood, the need for love and belonging is closely
linked to the need for survival” (p.128). If a child is left with unmet need of
love and belonging he may feel difficulties in forming lasting relations in
future also and may get deprived of love and belongingness for all of his life.
This deprivation can lead to unhealthy personality development and affect
person’s mental health adversely. This concept is very well explained in choice
theory given by William Glasser (1998).The choice theory states that “we are
driven by our genes to satisfy five basic needs: survival, love and belonging,
power, freedom and fun. In practice, the most important need is love and
belonging, as it is a requisite for satisfying all of the needs.” Glasser
(1998) further says that “Choice theory, replaces Seven Caring Habits, with the
Seven Deadly Habits.” This paper will attempt to integrate the choice theory,
with one of the patient’s scenario and suggest evidenced based implementation
strategies to help such patients.
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