introduction to personal development

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

4. PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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.

9. ORIGINS OF PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

10. PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT.......

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