DEVELOPING THE WHOLE PERSON

• Personal development


  A lifelong process of enhancing and improving one's personality through deliberate study and practice
• Aspects/Domains of human development

  • Physical development
  • Cognitive development
  • Psychosocial development
• Physical development

  • Growth of the body, brain, motor, sensory skills, and physical skills
• Cognitive development


  • Learning, speaking, understanding, reasoning, and creating
• Psychosocial development


  • Social interactions with other people, emotions, attitudes, self-identity, personality, beliefs, and values
• Age and stage of development


  Influence a person's personal development
• Factors affecting/influencing human development

  • Hereditary - inborn traits
  • Environment - experience
  • Maturation - cognitive, psychological, social dimensions
• Influence of physical maturation

  • Most pronounced during childhood and adolescence stage
• Capabilities that distinguish human species

  • Self-awareness
  • Analytical thinking
  • Self-evaluation
  • Motivation
  • Decision-making
  • Reflective thought
• Personal development


  A process in which persons reflect upon themselves, understand who they are, accept what they discover about themselves, and learn (or unlearn) new sets of values, attitudes, behavior, and thinking skills to reach their fullest potential as human beings
• Personality


  Qualities, traits, and characteristics of a person
• Personal


  Belonging to a person, or those related to or affecting a person
• Psychology


  The study of human behavior and thinking serves as a foundation of personal development that serves current understanding of it
• Schools of thought developed by humanistic psychology

  • Johari's Window
  • Other school of thought
• Johari's Window


  A model for interpersonal awareness that helps in understanding your relationship with yourself and others
• How to improve oneself using Johari's Window

  1. Revealing a lot of information to others

  2. Disclosing any information

  3. Taking feedback or criticism in a constructive way

  4. Disregarding or ignoring any feedback about oneself
• Socrates: '"An unexamined life is not worth living"'
• Thomas Hobbes: '"Read thyself"'
• Self-concept


  One's abstract and general idea about him/herself particularly toward his/her unique personality and his/her own perception about his/her set of values, point of views and behavior
• Rene Descartes


  The Father of Modern Philosophy who proposed that a person's existence depends on his/her perception and that mind is the seat of consciousness
• Components of personality (Sigmund Freud)

  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
• Id


  Freud explained that man's personality is driven by pleasure principle, and the nature of Id is to satisfy man's desire without thinking much of the situation
• Ego


  The second component of the personality that is developed at approximately the age of three, and operates according to reality which makes it possible for the Id to work in a more proper and satisfactory way
• Superego


  The last component of personality, which holds our moral judgments or concept of right and wrong that are believed to be acquired from the family and the environment
• Aspects of self

  • Physical self
  • Social self
  • Competent self
  • Inner self
• Personality


  Something that people tend to think a lot about. It is the complex administration of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behavior that influence personal judgment
• Personality development


  The complex administration of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behavior that influence personal judgment
• Adolescence


  • The stage from puberty to adulthood and includes the psychological experiences of the child during this period
• Physical changes during adolescence: GIRLS

  • Breast development
  • Changes in body shape and height
  • Growth of pubic and body hair
  • The start of periods (menstruation)
• Physical changes during adolescence: BOYS

  • Growth of the penis and testes (testicles)
  • Changes in body shape and height
  • Erection with ejaculation
  • Growth of body and facial hair
• Other Physical Changes: Inside and Outside

  • Brain
  • Bones, Organs, and body systems
  • Clumsiness and coordination
  • Physical strength and sports skills
• Jean Piaget


  A Swiss psychologist known for his work about child development, outlined specific stages of mental growth
• Piaget's theory of cognitive development


  Suggests that intelligence changes as children grow
• Sensory motor stage


  1. The infant focuses on physical sensations and on learning to co-ordinate his body (birth-2years)

  2. The infant learns about the world through their senses and through their actions

  3. At about 8 months the infant will understand the permanence of objects and that they will still exist even if they can't see them and the infant will search for them when they disappear
• Pre-operational stage


  1. Children at this age curious about things, they question almost about everything that arouses their interest (2-7 years old)

  2. Symbolic Function – imagination (2-4 years old). Egocentrism thinks only one's own point of view.

  3. Intuitive thought – growth in curiosity and basic reasoning (4-7 years old). Acquire great amount of knowledge but have no idea yet about how they use it.
• Concrete operational stage


  Children began to think logically about objects and incidents (7-11 years old)
• Formal operational stage


  Children think more complex manner, abstract and detailed, able to solve problems and open in considering different ideas and point of view
• Lawrence Kohlberg


  Theory of Moral Development
• Kohlberg's stages of moral development

  • Obedience and Punishment
  • Individualism and Exchange
  • Developing Good Interpersonal Relationships
  • Maintaining Social Order
  • Social Contract and Individual Rights
  • Universal Principles
• Albert Bandura


  Theory of Social Learning