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maslow hiarchy. Maslow stresses that a person cannot move to next level
of the hierarchy until the present level is fully achieved. ...
Submitted by patel123 on November 18, 2006
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Maslow stresses that a person cannot move to next level of the hierarchy until the present level is fully achieved. The second layer of the Maslow hierarchy is the need for safety and security. In order for this need to be fulfilled, a person needs to experience a sense of security in their lives and to live without fear. When the physiological needs are met then the human turns towards safety needs, safety attains the highest priority over all other desires. A functioning society tends to provide this to its member. However acute danger, safety comes before things like eating. Safety and security needs can include physical safety, security of employment, financial security, security of good health and security of family.
Physical safety means freedom from physical harm. Such harm can come from other people, such as when an attacker threatens a person, or it can come from the environment, such as when we are standing in a burning building. We can also sensitively threaten ourselves, as that little voice inside speak angrily to us for our wrong doings. We cannot get away from the repeated self-harming cycles of memories or future projections and much treatment is designed to stop us from continuing to harm ourselves.
In children we can also see a much more direct reaction to bodily illnesses of various kinds. Sometimes these illnesses seem to be immediately and per se threatening and seem to make the child feel unsafe. For instance, vomiting, stomach pain or other sharp pains seem to make the child look at the whole world in a different way. At such a moment of pain, it may be postulated that, for the child, the appearance of the whole world suddenly changes from brightness to darkness, and becomes a place in which anything at all might happen, in which previously stable things have suddenly become unstable. Thus a child who because of some bad food is taken ill may, for a day or two, develop fear, nightmares, and a need for protection and...
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