Holistic Development

• Holistic development is geared towards developing the whole person. It covers all aspects of development.
• Interpersonal skills helps us manage our emotions especially when handling our emotions and dealing with other people around us.
• You should know how to manage your emotions, both the positive and negative ones.
• Most people forget that health is important. We also need to take time to rest, relax and take care of our physical needs.
• We should address the needs of each aspect of our development to lead to a mature personality.
• Ultimately, you are in control your own personal growth and development.
• Peer Acceptance is very important among adolescents. It addresses their strong need to belong.
• Holistic development is the complete development of the whole person.
• Adolescent should learn how to manage their emotions so they avoid anxiety and depression.
• Most teenagers most likely try to fit in with their friends rather than experience SOCIAL ISOLATION. It addresses their need to belong.
• SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE is the degree to which someone is socially accepted by peers.
• Most teenagers would experience ROLE CONFUSION, when they try distinct roles that may be different from what is expected of them. This is the time they try to figure out who they are.
• Our EMOTIONAL ASPECT is our ability to experience life deeply, to relate to one another and the world on a feeling level.
• Our SPIRITUAL ASPECT is our inner essence, our soul, the part of us that exists beyond time and space.
• The MENTAL LEVEL of our existence consists of our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and values.
• Physical Self. includes the descriptions of your height, weight, facial appearance, and quality of skin, hair and descriptions of body areas such as your neck, chest, waist, legs etc.
• Intellectual Self. include here an assessment of how well you reason and solve problems, your capacity to learn and create, your general amount of knowledge, your specific areas of knowledge, wisdom you have acquired, and insights you have.
• Emotional Self. it is about the typical feelings you: seldom feel, try to avoid, enjoyed most, and associated with each other.
• Sensual Self. it is about how you feel as a sensual person. What do you use most – sight, hearing, speaking, smelling, touching? How do you feel about the different ways you take in information - through the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, pores, and skin.
• Interactional Self. includes your descriptions of your strengths and weaknesses in intimate relationships and relationships to friends, family, costudents and strangers in social settings. Describe the strengths and weaknesses which your friends and family have noticed. Describe what kind of son or daughter, brother or sister you are.
• Nutritional Self. includes how do you nourish yourself? What foods do you like and dislike? What do you like and dislike about these?
• Contextual Self. this could be in the areas of maintenance of your living environment: reaction to light, temperature, space, weather, colors, sound and seasons and your impact on the environment.
• Spiritual Self. this could include your feelings about yourself and organized religion, reactions about your spiritual connections to others, feelings about your spiritual development and history, and thought about your metaphysical self.
• Holistic Development refers to human development that is meant to involve all the aspects of a person. This is development designed to accommodate physical development, Intellectual growth, emotional development, social development and spiritual development.
• Physical development – the process of physical growth in which (height, length, mass etc.) of an individual increases including the five physical senses.
• Intellectual development – deals with thinking and mental process which further divided into six classes; knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
• Emotional development – it refers to the children’s growing ability to identify and understand their own feelings, accurately read and understand the feelings of others, manage the way they feel, shape the way they behave, develop empathy for others, and build and keep good relationships with friends, family and others.
• Social development – refers to how a child develops friendships and other relationships, as well as how a child handles conflict with peers. It is the manner by which an individual interacts with other individuals or group of individuals.
• Spiritual development – is a process through which a child develops proper attitudes or behaviors towards the other people in the society, based on various things such as social and cultural norms, laws, and rules. It is the attributes of a person’s consciousness and beliefs, including values and virtues that guide and put meaning into a person’s life.