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PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT
Overview
Social Change
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Overview
Social Change
Self-Direction
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Overview
Social Change
Self-Direction
Themes of Personal Growth
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Self Direction
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Self Direction
The need to learn more about ourselves
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Self Direction
The need to learn more about ourselves and our world
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Self Direction
The need to learn more about ourselves and our world as a
means of directing our lives more effectively.
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Self-Direction & Culture
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Self-Direction & Culture
• Individualistic Culture
• Collectivist Culture
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• Individualistic — individual gain appreciated more than
general societal gain.
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• Individualistic — individual gain appreciated more than
general societal gain
• Collectivistic —
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• Individualistic — individual gain appreciated more than
general societal gain
• Collectivistic — collective or societal gain cherished over
individual advancement
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• In the United States, independence, freedom, and rugged
individualism are celebrated.
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• In the United States, independence, freedom, and rugged
individualism are celebrated.
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• In the United States, independence, freedom, and rugged
individualism are celebrated.
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices,
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:
o“freezing up”
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:
✓“freezing up”
o“drifting”
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:
✓“freezing up”
✓“drifting”
o“shared decision making”
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:
✓“freezing up”
✓“drifting”
✓“shared decision making”
o“appeal to some type of authority”
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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life
choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:
✓“freezing up”
✓“drifting”
✓“shared decision making”
✓“appeal to some type of authority”
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How do we cope?
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How do we cope?
Self-awareness
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How do we cope?
Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and
behavior.
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How do we cope?
Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and
behavior.
• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi
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How do we cope?
Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and
behavior.
• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself”
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How do we cope?
Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and
behavior.
• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself
• Ralph Waldow Emerson, “Know Thyself”,
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How do we cope?
Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and
behavior.
• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself
• Ralph Waldow Emerson, “Know Thyself”, theme. . . “the God
within”
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How do you not become completely. . . narcissistic,
self-centered, self-pitying?
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How do you not become completely. . . narcissistic,
self-centered, self-pitying?
. . .practicing how to relate and
cooperate with others despite our
differences & desire for personal
freedom.
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Taking Charge of Our Lives
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Taking Charge of Our Lives
• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being
responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.
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Taking Charge of Our Lives
• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being
responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.
• Altruism,
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Taking Charge of Our Lives
• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being
responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.
• Altruism, the desire to help others at a cost to ourselves (Koltko-
Rivera, 2006).
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Taking Charge of Our Lives
• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being
responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.
• Altruism, the desire to help others at a cost to ourselves (Koltko-
Rivera, 2006).
• Altruism, generally, plays a larger role in collective than in
individualistic societies.
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Personal Value Assessment
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PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT
The Challenge of Self-Direction
The Challenge of Self-Direction
◦ Self-Direction and Culture
◦ The Ambiguity of Personal Freedom
◦ Taking Charge of Our Lives
Themes of Personal Growth
Themes of Personal Growth
◦ Continuity and Change
◦ The Experience of Personal Growth
◦ Beyond Individualism
Social changes — changes in social patterns
and institutions in society
Technology in Human Communication Systems
Frontline- Secondlife-Phillipe Rosedale
Frontline: Mark Bauerlein Emoery Universtiy
http:///www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/relationships/socializing/the-human-touch-1.html?play
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/relationships/identity/the-end-of-privacy.html?play
Write about a significant change that has
occurred in your life.
1. What was the change?
2. Discuss the impact of this change on your life.
Include both + and – aspects.
3. Describe how you coped with the change.
4. Overall, how has these changes affected the
quality of your life?
Personal Value Assessment
Purpose
To identify your values through priority ranking.
Instructions
1. The following is a list of personal values. Go through this list and rate the personal values in
terms of their importance to you. Place a check a mark in the category that best represents
your feelings about how important the personal value is to you. (Exercise continues through the
next 3 pages.) *
* Fred Hecklinger and Bernadette Black, Training for Life (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2012). Used with permission.
PERSONAL VALUE
VERY
IMPORTANT
MODERATELY
IMPORTANT
SOMEWHAT
IMPORTANT
NOT
IMPORTANT
Good health
Having close friendships
Having a close family
A fulfilling career
Along life
A stable marriage
A financially comfortable life
Independence
Being creative
Participating in an organized religion
Intimacy with another
Having children
A variety of interests and activities
Freedom to create my own lifestyle
Having a house
A happy love relationship
Fulfilling careers for me and my spouse
Contributing to my community
Abundance of leisure time
Happiness
Ability to move from place to place
A life without stress
Strong religious values
Name Date
PERSONAL VALUE
VERY
IMPORTANT
MODERATELY
IMPORTANT
SOMEWHAT
IMPORTANT
NOT
IMPORTANT
A chance to make social changes
To be remembered for my accomplishments
Helping those in distress
Freedom to live where I wish
A stable life
Time to myself
Enjoyment of arts, entertainment and
cultural activities
A life without children
A life with many challenges
Opportunity to be a leader
Opportunity to fight for my country
A chance to make a major discovery that
would save lives
A good physical appearance
Opportunity to establish roots in one place
Opportunity for physical activities
An exciting life
A chance to get into politics
To live according to strong moral values
Opportunity to teach others
To write something memorable
A chance to become famous
To help others solve problems
To make lots of money
Others:
2. In the space below, list at least 10 of your most important personal values from your Personal
Values Assessment.
3. In the space below, list your top 5 personal values in order of priority, with number one as the
most important.
1. First Priority
2. Second Priority
3. Third Priority
4. Fourth Priority
5. Fifth Priority
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10.
1. Reflective Essay & Literature Review Report, (total of 70%) Each student is required to
submit a five-page paper on a course topic or issue that is particularly significant and personally
meaningful. In other words, choose a problem or issue that you have had some experience
managing. For example, you may use a personal observation (some event you have witnessed)
and/or, personal experience (an incident in which you played a part) for the point of view of your
paper.
The following are guidelines for the Reflective Essay & Literature Review Report:
A. Define the topic or issue by utilizing class material and course terminology. You may use your
textbook and lecture notes, or portal discussion questions as your initial inspiration and source.
(Example topics and the grading rubric for scoring the assignment will be presented during the
3nd week of instruction.)
B. Do research with substantiated, credible sources – this skill demonstrates academic
adeptness and collegiate knowledge! To do this, take your topic idea or issue, put it into context,
and link it with some good research. Please visit the campus library to verify that your research
meets excellent, academic, collegiate standards. Here is our classes library research guide and
tutorial, https://guides.library.pdx.edu/psy317
1. Go deep with your research and refrain from using mainstream, heavily commercialized
media sources, such as WebMD, Psychology today, u-tube, Facebook, non-credible
Internet websites, Google, etc. . . . 2. Must have at least three outside,
academic/good scientific sources, aside
from lecture and the text. Also, the material does not need to be peer reviewed. 3.
Appropriately document all sources throughout paper and include a reference page.
(If the information is in your essay, it must be appropriately documented.) 4.
No block quotes- instead, paraphrase the source material.
C. Format, one-inch margins – adjust right margin to .8, Font size 12 (New Times or Ariel), Title
page includes: Title of Report, Name, Class & Instructor, Date – you do not need an abstract.
Double space. No third space between paragraphs.
