Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Theories of Personality: Notes: Model of Health

Rogerian Theory: humanistic psychology


Essential worth of the whole person

Creativity

Free choice/personal responsibility

Spontaneity [the more spontaneity the more creative]

Internationalism

Subjective experience [what’s going on inside of you at this time]

Present rather than past future


Humanism psychology assumptions


People are capable of solving their own psychological problems

Under the right conditions, people move toward psychological growth/fulfillment


Existentialism


Rollo May

People “are free and responsible and have choice at the core of their existence” (Allen, 2000, p. 200).


Phenomenology

The world as I perceive and experience it at this moment

Underscores importance of getting into the client’s world of meaning


The General Actualizing Tendency


The built-in motivation (biological tendency) present in every life-form to maintain or enhance itself


Four significant characteristics:

Organismic [nature, biological, predisposition]

Active process

Directional

Selective


Model of Health

Healthy people are:


Fully aware

Honest

Personally satisfied

Spontaneous

Trust themselves


Driven from within rather than controlled by external forces

Open to and “fully alive to the moment” (Jones and Butman, 1991, p. 259)

Growing


Model of abnormality


Conflicts between who I am (caught-concept formed by self-experiences) and who I should be (ideal self)


“This is me, God knows me.” Michelle


Enjoy,

-Pate

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