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What is Human Givens?
1. Brief solution-focused, uses client’s strengths to get their emotional needs met. 
2. Evolution has endowed all members of our species, regardless of race or culture, with a common set of innate physical and emotional needs along with a set of innate physical, emotional and psychological resources.
3. When innate needs are met in a sufficiently balanced way people will flourish but when this does not happen distress, and eventually illness, results.
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