Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

Psychological needs

These are biological needs such as food, water, oxygen, and constant body temperature. If a person is deprived of these needs, the person will die.

Safety needs

There is a need to feel safe from harm, danger, or threat of destruction. Client’s need regularity and some predictability.

Social needs

Friendships, intimacy, affection, and love are needed.

Esteem needs

People need a stable, firmly based level of self-respect from others.

Self- Actualization needs

There is a need to be oneself, to act consistently with whom one is. This is an ongoing process. It involves developing potential, becoming, and being what one is capable of being.