PerDev 1st Qtr Areas of Personal Development

Areas of Personal Development

Physiological

the physical change in the body as well as the sense and changes in skills related to movement

Social

inborn capacity to relate to others

Albert Bandura’s theory of Human Agency

the capacity of humans to exercise control over their own lives as the essence of humanness
- Self-efficacy is the belief that one can succeed in what one wants to do

Emotional

 has to do with the feelings that you experience

Emotion

• a physiological experience (state of awareness) that gives you information about the world; a response that generates biochemical reactions in our bodies

Feelings

• your conscious awareness of the emotion itself; a reaction to emotions; are subjevctive in nature

Cognitive

 refers to a person’s intellectual abilities as shown in his/her thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and values

Attitude

a relatively enduring organization of beliefs, feelings, and behavioral tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events or symbols

3 components

affective, behavioral, cognitive

Behaviorism: B/F/ Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory

 a person is the sum of total behaviours that were rewarded by his/her environment and hence were developed through repetition and reinforcement

Modeling

the people that one looks up to can influence his/her identity, beliefs, and values

Spiritual

defined as deiscovering oneself beyond the ego. It is known as the soul, spirit, or the inner essence that is often taken for granted

Values

subjective judgments that people make about the importance of certain things or issues; what one considers as essential to his or her self.; principles or standards; ideas or goals

Virtues

 qualities, which typically reflect what one prizes and are universally considered to be good and desirable; lived values, values in action, which are achieved on a dependably regular basis

Values and virtues

the guiding principles that a person lives by; help shape a person’s belief, forming a system that can be used as a guide to determine what is right and wrong and what is true and false

Belief system

a moral code by which one sets standards, that serve as a guide throughout one’s life

Physiological (physical) and mental development

• Puberty

• Adolescence

• Growth hormones

• Metacognitive thinking

Emotional development

• Emotional intelligence - the ability to recognize and control as well as to manage one’s emotions so as to enhance relationships with others

• Emotional identification and regulation

• Empathy - to read and understand other

Emotional development

one’s ability to cope with and manage emotions and ahve positive relationships

Mental development

the ability to think clearly and make good decisions, cope with stress and manage emotions

Cognitive development

related to mental function which also deals with logic; the process of cognition does influence mental health

Mental development

related to one’s emotions, the mind, and the intellectual process

Karen Horney’s Socio-Cultural View of Knowing Oneself (social)

Early childhood experiences are largely influenced responsibly for the formation of one’s personality

Erik Erikson (social)

Personality develops throughout the life cycle and stretches from infancy to old age

Jean Piaget’s theory (cognitive)

• Sensorimotor stage

• Pre-operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Formal operational stage

  Teens reach the last stage of cognitive development and therefore have increased mental capacity in terms of hypothesizing, logical, and abstract thinking

Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory (moral)

• 6 stages grouped into 3 levels:

  • Pre-conventional

  • Conventional

  • post -conventional

Start from being centered on the needs and wants to considering and negotiating, to a concern for the common good and universal principles, sometimes at the cost of being self-beneficial

St. Teresa of Avila (spiritual)

• “INTRERIOR CASTLE”

• Persons mature in holiness, as they grow deeper in knowledge & love for their Creator

• Those who practice faith actively are resilient in the face of adversities

• Those who believe in a higher being have a deeper sense of hope and purpose

• 3 ways of the Interior life or 3 stages of the spiritual life

  • Purgative stgae

  • Illuminative stage

  • Unitive stage

Sigmund Freud

• Psychoanalytic theory

• Mind has 3 level of awareness:

  • Conscious

  • Subconscious or preconscious

  • Unconscious

• 3 Provinces of the mind

  • Id (instinct)

  • Ego (relaity)

  • Superego (morality)

• Slip of the tongue: Freudian slip

Alfred Adler

• Inferiority complex (his own childhood experiences)

• Striving for superiority vs striving for success

• Malaadjustments

Carl Jung

• Psychospiritual dimension of self

• Personal unconscious and collective unconscious

• Individuation or self-realization

• Achetypes:

  • Persona/Shadow

  • Anima/Animus

  • Great mother/Wise old man

  • Hero/Self