Theracomm and Theories
Theracomm and Theories
Theracomm and Theories
Gregor Mendel
2. Psychoanalytic Theory
1. BIOLOGICAL THEORY
Analysis of certain behavior METHODS OF ATTEMPTING TO PROTECT
Sigmund Freud (father of THE SELF AND COPE WITH THE BASIC
psychoanalysis) DRIVES OF EMOTIONALLY PAINFUL
Viewed humans as Stimulus Driven who THOUGHTS, FEELINGS OR EVENTS.
respond to both internal and external AUTOMATIC, INVOLUNTARY MECHANISMS
stimuli. OF THE MIND WHICH SERVE TO LOWER
Believed that personality is formed ANXIETY, MAINTAIN EGO FUNCTIONING
during the 5th year of life AND PROJECT TO SELF-ESTEEM.
“All behavior is caused and can be Description Example
explained”
Defense
Mechanism
STRUCTURES OF PERSONALITY
Repression Burying a painful You can’t
feeling or thought remember your
ID from your awareness father’s funeral
though it may
EGO resurface in symbolic
form.
SUPEREGO
Denial Not accepting reality Drunk person
ID because it is too
painful
PRESENT AT BIRTH
Regression Reverting to an older Stomping off to
SERVES TO SATISFY NEEDS AND ACHIVE less mature way of another room or
handling stresses and pouting after a
IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION
feelings fight
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE Projection Attributing to your You get really mad
own unacceptable at your boyfriend
thoughts or feelings to but scream that
someone or something he’s the one mad
EGO else at you
RATIONAL PART OF PERSONALITY AND Isolation Attempting to avoid a You run away
WORKS TO MAINTAIN HARMONY painful thought or from the crowd to
BETWEEN ID AND SUPEREGO feeling by objectifying avoid the
and emotionally shameful event
detaching oneself from
REALITY PRINCIPLE
the feeling
LOGICALLY ORIENTED IN TIME AND Displacement Channeling a feeling or When you get
DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN REALITY AND thought from its actual mad at your
UNREALITY source to something sister, you break
or someone else your drinking glass
by throwing it
against the wall.
SUPEREGO
Reaction Adopting beliefs, When you say
Formation attitudes and feeling you’re not angry
PERFECTION PRINCIPLE
contrary to what you when you really
really believe are
CONSCIENCE – CULTURALLY INFLUENCED
SENSE OF RIGHT OR WRONG
Jean Piaget
Equilibrium
Piaget’s Theory’s Goal Helps explain how children are able to
move from one stage to the next.
To explain the mechanism and processes by
which the infant, and then the child,
develops into an individual who can reason
and think using hypotheses 4 cognitive stages
Organization
1) Sensorimotor Stage
Refers to the mind’s natural tendency to
0-2 years old
organize information into related,
interconnected structures. Limited Knowledge
o Assimilation
2) Pre-operational Stage
o Adaptation
3-7 years old
Fading of conservation
Urie Bronfenbenner
5. Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural Theory
Environment or place where you belong
Lev Vygotsky (Russian Pyschologist) affects the development
Social interactions play a fundamental role 2. Mesosytem- People outside our home that
in the process of cognitive development affects us. (Families outside our home)
Child follow the adult’s example gradually 3. Exosystem- Community/ barangay that
develop the ability to do certain tasks w/o affects us.
his or help 4. Macrosystem- larger community such as
Cognitive – way of thinking municipality, province, national
government.
Albert Bandura