persdev me1 sem3

• Adolescence


  The time when you start dreaming about big things in life
• During adolescence, you confront questions like

  "Where to from here?" "Who can I be?" "What if?"
• Personality


  A pattern of relatively permanent traits and characteristics that makes a person's behavior consistent and distinct
• Persona


  The masks worn by Roman actors in Greek dramas in order to project their respective roles
• Traits


  • Qualities that are inherently unique, common to some group, or shared by an entire species but the pattern is different for each individual
• Characteristics


  • Unique qualities of an individual that include such attributes as temperament, physique, and intelligence
• Temperament


  One's personality that is believed to appear as early as infancy and continuously develops throughout childhood and adolescence based on behavioral and emotional predispositions that were present at birth
• Self-concept


  An individual's belief about himself or herself, including his or her attributes and who and what the self is
• Real Self


  • Who you actually are, your abilities, strengths, and weaknesses
• Ideal Self


  • What you envision to be or who you wish to become
• Types of Self-Concept

  • Subjective self or the existential self
  • Objective or the categorical self
  • Emotional Self
  • Social Self
  • Psychological Self
  • Valued Self
• Developing a healthy Self-Concept

  • Knowing yourself, determining and understanding your strengths, weaknesses, talents, and potentials
  • Being honest with yourself and being true to who you are and what you value
  • Taking responsibility for your actions and choices
  • Loving and accepting yourself as you are, knowing that you can improve and develop any aspect of yourself that you choose
• "I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born." Isaiah 44:2
• God prescribed every single detail of your body
• God made you for a reason
• God also planned where you'd be born and where you'd live for his purpose
• God decided how you would be born
• God's motive for creating you was his love
• Holistic development


  The complete aspects of a person or his totality
• René Descartes influenced much of mankind's thinking with his theory of duality or understanding the nature of things in a simple, dual mode
• In 1926, General Jan C. Smuts wrote about holism in his book Holism and Evolution, introducing the academic terminology for holism as "the tendency in nature to form holes which are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution"
• The Various Aspects of Holistic Development of a Person

  • physiological or the physical attributes including the five physical senses
  • cognitive or the intellectual functions of the mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning, analyzing, projecting, synthesizing, recalling, and assessing
  • psychological or how thinking, feeling, and behaving interact and happen in a person
  • social or the manner by which an individual interacts with other individuals or groups of individuals
  • spiritual or the attribute of a person's consciousness and beliefs, including the values and virtues that guide and put meaning into a person's life
• Basic human drives


  Those that are biologically related such as hunger and thirst
• Affect


  The various emotional experiences such as emotions, moods, and affective traits
• Emotions


  Variations in level of arousal, affective state or mood, expressive movements, and attitudes
• Feelings


  Arise from the brain as it interprets an emotion, which is usually caused by physical sensations experienced by the body as a reaction to a certain external stimulus
• Attitude


  A result of a person's evaluation of an experience with another person, object, idea, behavior, or situation based on his or her values and belief systems
• Behavior


  A manifestation or acting out of the attitudes an individual has
• Values


  The highest ideals of human existence that create meaning and purpose in a person's life
• Schwartz's 10 Common Values


  • Self-direction
  • Stimulation
  • Hedonism
  • Achievement
  • Power
  • Security
  • Conformity
  • Tradition
  • Benevolence
  • Universalism
• Motivational Goals that Characterize the 10 Values


  • Openness to change
  • Self-transcendence
  • Self-enhancement
  • Conservation
• Virtue


  A habitual and firm disposition to do good that allows the person not only to perform good acts, but also to give the best of himself or herself
• Developmental tasks


  Processes inherent in every stage of development that need to be accomplished successfully in preparation for other developmental tasks in the next stage of development
• Tasks of an Adolescent

  • Adjust to sexually maturing bodies and feelings
  • Develop and apply abstract thinking skills
  • Develop and apply a more complex level of perspective thinking
  • Develop and apply new coping skills
  • Identify meaningful moral standards, values, and belief systems
  • Understand and express more complex emotional experiences
  • Form friendships that are mutually close and supportive
  • Establish a key aspect of identity
  • Meet the demands of increasingly mature roles and responsibilities
  • Renegotiate relationships with adults in parenting roles
• Problems and Challenges Faced by Adolescents

  • Appearance
  • Attitude
  • Friends
• Trust vs. Mistrust


  Infancy stage where developing a sense of trust in the world and the people around us is crucial
• Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt


  Early childhood stage where developing a sense of autonomy and independence is important
• Initiative vs. Guilt


  Preschool years stage where developing a sense of initiative and purpose is key
• Industry vs. Inferiority


  Elementary school years stage where developing a sense of competence and industry is vital
• Identity vs. Role Confusion


  Adolescence stage where developing a strong sense of identity and figuring out who we are as individuals is crucial