GESTALT THEORY OF CHANGE The term ‘Gestalt’was first used by the psychologist Christian von Ehrenfels in 1890 to explain how the whole is more than the sum of its parts. The Gestalt approach today is a practice based on holistic therapies. It aims...
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS: A THEORY OF HUMAN MOTIVATION Abraham Maslow Maslow suggests that humans are motivated to fulfil their needs according to a hierarchy of importance to survival. It is helpful in understanding why an individual’s personal...
TAXOMONY OF NEEDS Jonathon Bradshaw Bradshaw developed The Taxomony of Needs to help services understand the different ways in which needs are perceived, expressed and measured. It allows the different types of need to be taken into account when planning...
CHANGE CURVE Kubler Ross Kubler Ross developed a model that explained the impact of grieving. The model has since been adopted as an approach to understand the process of change. The basic model has three stages. There is no starting point, but each stage must...
ADOPTION CURVES Iowa State University by Rogers et al. A model to help understand responses to innovation and change. The original theory developed by Iowa State University with Rogers et al. in 1957 was used to explain the diffusion or adoption of new products in the...
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