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- 1. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Q1 Module 1: KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING ONESELF DURING MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
- 2. Objective/s: 1.Explain that knowing oneself can make a person accept his/her strengths and limitations and dealing with others better 2.Share his/her unique characteristics, habits and experiences
- 3. Lesson 1: Knowing and Understanding Oneself During Middle and Late Adolescence Prenatal development Birth Infancy (0-3 yrs old) Early Childhood (3-6) Middle Childhood (6-8) Late Childhood (9-11) Adolescence (12-20) Early Adulthood (20-35) Midlife (35-50) Mature Adulthood (50-80) Late Adulthood (80+)
- 5. Aspects of Self 1. Intellectual Self: include a description about your reasoning ability, problem solving skills, specific areas you are good at or the wisdom you gained from your experience. 2. Emotional Self: describe how you feel most of the time, feelings you don’t want to experience and the emotions you want to improve. You may include an experience that makes you feel sad, happy, angry, etc. 3. Physical Self: describe your physical image. You may include adjectives describing your complexion, height, weight, hair, or any body parts that you like the most. 4. Spiritual Self – write a word or a phrase about your over-all spiritual development. Describe your spiritual connection to your religion and your spiritual relationship with other people. 5. Social Self – include a description on how well you get along with other people with different types of attitudes and personality. Describe the kind of person you are when you are with your closest friends, teachers, or your family.
- 6. Questions: 1.As you accomplished the activities, what have you realized? 2.Do these activities remind you of your unique identity as a person? How? 3.Do you consider yourself as a unique individual? How will you prove it?
- 8. Understanding the “Sense of Self” ✓Adolescence is a stage wherein we tend to build a “socially constructed sense of self”, that is our sense of self as influenced by how others views us. The socially constructed sense of self is the reason why we tend to seek approval and acceptance of other people for a purpose of attaining sense of belongingness.
- 9. Who Am I? – A question that leads to a better Self-Awareness ✓ Once you have a concrete understanding of your entire being – your personality, strengths and weaknesses, you may emerge as a resilient individual who is prepared to be a responsible adult.
- 10. Self-Awareness ✓Self-awareness is a state of having the knowledge about our existence as unique individuals who are able to recognize our values, beliefs, traits, behaviors and feelings. ✓ The moment we are aware about ourselves – our strengths and weaknesses, only then we can experience ourselves as unique and separate individual beings. ✓ If we manage to become aware of who we are, we will become empowered to making changes by building our areas of strengths and at the same time by acknowledging our areas of weaknesses. ✓ Self-awareness is being significantly conscious of what we are good at while recognizing our flaws, limitations and imperfections.
- 11. The Johari Window ✓The Johari Window is a technique that helps people improve self-awareness, interpersonal relationships and opportunity for personal development by giving or receiving feedback on each other’s strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. ✓This was developed by American Psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955.
- 12. The Johari Window 1. Arena – or the Known Self. This form of the self is what you and others see in you. Things we know about ourselves and others know about us, like that of the talents and skills or even our weaknesses that we know about ourselves and others know about us. 2. Blind Spot – or the Blind Self. These are our actions and behaviors others know about us that we are not aware of. These can be positive or negative and may include hidden strengths and potentialities or areas for improvement. 3. Façade – or the Hidden Self. In this form of self, we hide things that are private about ourselves. These may include feelings, ambitions and opinions that we choose to hide due to fear of negative reactions from others. Reasons for hiding may be because we do not want our weaknesses to be exposed. 4. Unknown – This form of self is not known to others and not known to self. This includes skills, behaviors, undiscovered talents, etc. that are unknown to us and to others. If we explore and get ourselves involve in new activities with new groups of people will help us increase our self-awareness.
- 14. Self-Concept ✓According to Carl Rogers, a humanist psychologist, Self-concept is our general awareness about ourselves, the image that we have of ourselves. This image is influenced by our interactions with other people specifically those who are important to us. ✓Carl Rogers believed that our self-concept is made up of three different parts, the actual self, the ideal self and the self-esteem.
- 15. Self-Concept Actual Self • The Actual Self is our self- image, the one we actually see including attributes. • It is how we think and feel, behave or act. • This is built on self- knowledge, which is the actual genuine information that we have. Ideal Self • The Ideal Self is the self that we aspire to be. • The one we hope will possess the characteristics that we really want to have Self-esteem • Self-esteem is our over-all subjective sense of value or personal worth. • This is how we feel about our strength and weaknesses.