INTRODUCTION

TO PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
 Human
Development and
Personal
Development

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 Three
Aspects of
Human 1. Physical Development- growth of
Development body and brain, motor and sensory
skills, and even physical health
2. Cognitive Development- capacity
to learn, to speak, to understand,
to reason, and to create
3. Psychosocial Development- our
emotions, attitudes, self-identity,
personality, beliefs, and values

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 Human
development
is also 1. Heredity- inborn traits passed on
influenced by generation to generation
by:
2. Environment- experiences from our
contact and interaction to the
external world
3. Maturation- natural progression of
the brain that affects the cognitive,
psychological and social
dimensions.
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HEREDITY (NATURE) VS. ENVIRONMENT
(NURTURE)
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BRAIN MATURATION
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 What is
Personal ▹ “a process in which a person reflect
Development?
upon themselves, understand who
they are, accept what they discover
about themselves, and learn (or
unlearn) new set of values,
attitudes, behavior, and thinking
skills to reach their fullest potential
as human beings”

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 What is
Personal ▹ “ the process of striving to be the
Development?
best that you can be in order to
reach and realize your full potential.
It is a journey of self-discovery, self-
improvement, and self-realization”

- Zorka Hereford

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Psychology and
Personal
Development

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 Psychology is the
foundation of personal
development

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 Psychology
and Personal
Development ▹ Started during the
flourishing of
Humanistic and
Positive Psychology
in the 1950’s

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Abraham Maslow
▹ Humanistic
Psychology:
Hierarchy of Needs

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HIERARCHY OF NEEDS BY ABRAHAH MASLOW
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Carl Rogers
▹ Humanistic
Psychology:
Person-
Centered
Theory

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PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY BY CARL ROGERS
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Humanistic Psychology
waned in the late 1970’s
but was revived by
Martin Seligman

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 MARTIN
SELIGMAN:
▹ President of the
POSITIVE
American
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychological
Association
▹ Noticed how
psychology was
focusing on a
disease model of
human nature

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 MARTIN SELIGMAN and
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
▹ Emphasized what is
good and positive
about human
persons
▹ Desire to achieve
full potentials
▹ “human nature is
basically good”

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A happy lit bulb shines
out in a gloomy
surrounding
representing Positive
Psychology

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 PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
IN
ADOLESCENCE

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ADOLESCENCE ▹ Transition period between
childhood and early adulthood
▹ Authors Corpuz, Lucas, Borabo,
and Lucido (2010) defined three
stages of adolescence as:
Early adolescence- 10-13 yrs. old
Middle adolescence- 14-16 yrs. old
Late adolescence- 17- 20 yrs. old

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What happens
in ▹ Puberty to ▹ Turning point ▹ Sense of time
Adolescence? Adulthood of heightened urgency
▹ Most crucial potential and ▹ Lack of
developmental increased concentration
stage vulnerability of required
▹ Must gain a ▹ Rejection of tasks
firm sense of standards of
identity elders

▹ Identity vs. ▹ Divided self-

Identity image
Confusion ▹ Inability to
establish
intimacy

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 BUT ALL OF THOSE
THAT ARE BOUND TO
HAPPEN IN THE
ADOLESCENCE
STAGE IS NORMAL
AND NECESSARY…

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 Personality
Is a pattern of relatively permanent
traits and unique characteristics
that give both consistency and
individuality to a person’s behavior

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 Lesson 1:
Knowing Oneself
How well
do you
know Perdev starts with knowing
yourself? yourself.
Perdev involves self-
awareness that includes
thoughts, feelings, and
behavior.

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 1
Dimensions of the
Self: Physical,
Psychological,
Spiritual

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SELF
▹ What an individual sees,
perceives, and defines oneself
apart from others.
▹ Cognitive and affective
representation of one’s identity
▹ Three dimensions- physical,
psychological, and spiritual

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Revolves around the physical body of a human
being (processes, functions, mechanisms, and
chemistry.
Responsible for giving us the ability to move our
muscles, to perceive our surroundings, and to
think of the ideas and opinions that bring
wonders to our lives and others.

PHYSICAL DIMENSION
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Cognition, behavior, attitude, emotion and
ultimately, personality.
Refers to the individual as a set of
characteristics, behaviors, attitudes,
cognitions, and emotions.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION
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Viewing ourselves in a spiritual level-
as spiritual beings
Can subjectively be altered and
perceived by the person
Perceived existence of God, of a
greater good, or a Superior Being
related to the humble individual

SPIRITUAL DIMENSION
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 Self-Concept
and Self-Esteem

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 Self-
Concept ▹ Our cognition to ourselves,
what we think and know
about our identity,
personality and
individuality.
▹ “I think therefore I am”

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The Self-
Concept ▹ Holds that and individual have a
Theory concept of self based on who they
think they are (Actual Self ) and a
concept of who they would be
(Ideal Self)
▹ Ideal Self- the self you aspire to be.
▹ Actual Self- the one that you
actually see.

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Actual Self Ideal Self
 Built on self-  How we want to be
knowledge  Based on what we
 Derived from social have learned and
interactions experienced
 How we actually are  What our parents
 Self-image have taught us,
what we admire in
others, what our
society promotes,
our best interest

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 Example of Self-
Concept
▹ If you think you are
worthless and
talentless, you end
up identifying
yourselves to the
thought and behave
in such a way that
the thought holds
true (self-fulfilling
prophecy)

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 Self-
Esteem ▹ Our attitude towards
ourselves
▹ How we value
ourselves given the
negative or positive
feedback we
receive
▹ Self-concept is
mostly informational
while self-esteem is
emotionally inclined

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Remember
that… ▹ Self-concept and ▹ Personality is too
self-esteem are complex to be give
learned variables a absolute solution
▹ Comparing people or formula
is not pleasantly fair
but for some it
actually works to
proper them and
sadly for others, it
bring them more
down.

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 “
“How much we know and understand ourselves is critically
important, but there is something that is even more essential to
living a Wholehearted Life:

...LOVING OURSELVES”

- Reńe Brown

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