1. introduction to personal development
- 2. ASPECTS or DOMAINS of HUMAN DEVELOPMENT • PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. Covers the growth of the body and the brain, motor and sensory skills and even physical health. • COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. Covers our capacity to learn, to speak, to understand, to reason and to create. • PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. Includes our social interactions with other people, our emotions, attitudes, self identity, personality, beliefs and values.
- 3. human development is influenced by: • Heredity • Environment • Maturation
- 5. PERSONAL • Belonging or relating to a particular person. • Made or designed to use by other person • Someone whose job involves working for or helping a particular person.
- 6. PERSONALITY • the set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that makes a person different from one another. • attractive qualities (such as energy, friendliness and humor) that make a person interesting or pleasant to be with.
- 7. DEVELOPMENT • the act or process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more advanced. • the act or process of creating something over a period of time
- 8. 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.
- 11. Proponents of Humanistic Psychology • Abraham Maslow----- Hierarchy of Needs • Carl Rogers---- " The individual has within himself the capacity and the tendency, latent if not evident, to move forward toward maturity.
- 13. Martin Seligman-- a noted Psychologist and president of the American Psychological Association, realized how psychology, after World War 2 puts more emphasis in diagnosing, treating and preventing psychological disorders------ focus on the model of human nature
- 14. • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi-- helped refocus the emphasis of psychology from a disease model toward what is good and positive about human persons and their desire to achieve their full potential. • Positive Psychology- stresses that human nature has its good and positive stengths as well as its inadequacies and weaknesses
- 15. 3 stages of Adolescence • early adolescence- 10 to 13 years old • middle adolescence- 14-16 years old • late adolescence- 17-20 years old