Adept Needs Appraisal (ANA)
Healthy individuals can continue to purposefully grow and contribute in mutually beneficial relationships, for as long as they feel resilient. The DENT© processes use the Adept Needs Appraisal (ANA) to assess needs that may be lacking. The Art of the Adept is in getting those needs met.
The research supporting this development can be found here.: https://www.researchgate.net/project/DENTC-Model-Developments-Essential-Human-Needs-EHN-tool
Physical
Physiological Survival Needs: These are our basic needs for warmth, food and water, with an ability to suitably exercise.
Security: These needs relate to our sense of being safe and secure in our environment, with an ability to be able to manage threats.
Community Connection: This is about the way we can feel a part of an association of others, that is, to be a part of something outside of us.
Emotional
Intimacy: This is the knowledge that we have people, or at least one other person, who can acknowledge us for who we are, with whom we do not need any pretense, and towards whom we feel very close, across all five domains.
Give & Receive Attention: This concerns our self-regulation, which should be enough for us to generate spare capacity of our own resources (time, care, and awareness), to share.
Continuous Accomplishment: This is the overall sense that we can set ourselves suitably stretching goals, such that the process of striving to achieve, makes us feel good. This process stimulates the reward centres in the brain that drive us to move towards purposefulness, thus this need gives us motivation. Achieving our goals is a bonus.
Psychological
Growth: This is recognition that our efforts are resulting in progress with others, and in our personal development.
Reflection: This is the ability and capacity to be able step aside from the day to day and consider carefully and thoughtfully, alone or with others, what has happened, is happening, or may happen.
Self-talk: This is the setting aside of time alone to be with our thoughts, and to pay attention to the nature and benefit of the way we coach and counsel ourselves.
Social
Volition: This is our ability to make choices and take decisions, the quality of which determines the ease with which we can navigate the world.
Healthy Interdependence: This is our awareness and competence to be able to rely on, and be relied on, in our relationships with others, community, organisations and the state.
Esteem: This our sense of value, both our own sense of personal value, and the way that we feel about how others and organisations etc assign value to us.
Spiritual
Meaning: This is about how we make good sense of others, ourselves and life in general, leading to our philosophy in life, against which we can act.
Purpose: This concerns the direction we hold in our lives; it means that we have an aim that is bigger than just surviving.
Service: This is the degree to which we acknowledge and discharge our desire to be of use to significant others in our life.