We have drawn on multiple theories of neuroscience. The major influences are Klaus Grawe’s work in Neuropsychotherapy and Aunger and Curtis’ work on evolutionary development of behaviour.

Emotional needs are present in many theories in psychology and psychotherapy. We have drawn on Klaus Grawe’s work and matched this to multiple other theories:

Self-Esteem: including Adler, Baumeister, and Kernis

Control: including Bandura, and Ryan & Deci

Orientation: including Tomkins, Pepper, and Koltko Rivera

Attachment: including Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Dulac

Pleasure: including recent neuroscience research into pleasure and comfort

Klaus Grawe posited that emotional needs are at the core of wellbeing – his research and our research show that there are strong correlations to this and that violation minimises welling and satisfaction increases wellbeing. Managing emotional needs seems to be a very effective method to increase wellbeing and recovery from multiple conditions and disorders.

Multiple pieces of research in the workplace point to emotional needs as being critical in the workplace for engagement and satisfaction – we have reviewed 12 models and these match perfectly to our SCOAP model. Our research has shown increased workplace effectiveness with increased needs satisfaction.

Leadership models sometimes contradict each other. Our model matches the individual to the model and hence explains under which conditions  a leadership theory will work or not. SCOAP is ever present in all model but individuals representation of this changes and so needs and engagement will also change.