Four Needs explains why people think, feel, believe, and do what they do. It is a biologically based psychological theory of human wholeness empowering people to clarify and satisfy driving needs.
Needs
Physiological sustenance:Nutritive food, clean water and air.
Protection: clothing, shelter, and defense (skills, tools, and tactics.
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Movement: activity and dimensional interaction with environment.
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Procreation is needed to sustain the species.
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Functions:
Voluntary physical movement, digestion, sexual function, physical growth, development, and renewal
Needs: Perception and expression of internal sensory experience
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To give and receive love and approval.
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Belong and contribute to groups to cooperatively meet all needs.
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Functions: Bonding, classifying/sorting, non-verbal perception, social modeling, mimicry. Organization and integration of all other needs.
Needs: Find meaning through internal and external sensory experience.
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Form and define concepts of self.
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Hope, imagine, believe, create.
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Functions: Form and respond to idealizations.
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Planning, setting goals.
Symbolic communication, including art and written language.
Needs: Perceive, process, organized, and regulate, external sensory experience.
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Make decisions and draw conclusions based on perceptions and experience
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Learn and communicate perceptions.
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Functions: Logic, memory, causality, verbal language, sensory processing, analysis
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