7. William Glasser's Five Basic Needs

 

Figure 7: William Glasser's Five Basic Needs

Let us now take a closer look at these Five Basic Needs. What do they mean in detail?

Figure 8: Specification of Glasser’s Five Basic Needs

Please check for yourself at this point:

Can you agree that Glasser's Five Basic Needs are universal needs that they are needs that ALL people have?

In Austria we work with these needs in the Stop Dropout programme when it comes to supporting young people to do well in their education and ultimately to complete it successfully. We therefore work with these needs because we can observe them in all people, regardless of their background. Working with the Five Basic Needs makes it easier for us to find suitable solutions together with the young people. Solutions for which they are also sufficiently motivated to actually implement them, precisely because needs prompt us every day to also pay attention to and satisfy them accordingly.