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    This document provides an overview of personality development and mental health. It defines personality and lists factors that influence its development such as inherited predispositions and family environment. It also discusses ways to improve personality through self-appraisal and regulating emotions. The document describes types of conflicts that can arise, consequences of frustration, and different types of adjustments people make in response to challenges. Finally, it defines mental health and psychotherapy, outlining various psychotherapeutic procedures.

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    This document provides an overview of personality development and mental health. It defines personality and lists factors that influence its development such as inherited predispositions and family environment. It also discusses ways to improve personality through self-appraisal and regulating emotions. The document describes types of conflicts that can arise, consequences of frustration, and different types of adjustments people make in response to challenges. Finally, it defines mental health and psychotherapy, outlining various psychotherapeutic procedures.

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    Personality Development and Mental Health

    Overview of the Topic


    A. A Healthy Personality

    Definitions Factors in Personality Development Ways in Improving Personality B. Conflict, Frustration, Adjustment Kinds of Conflict Consequences of Frustration Abnormal Behavior Kinds of Adjustment C. Mental Health and Psychotherapy Definition Psychotherapy and Psychotherapeutic Procedures

    A Healthy Personality
    The term personality is taken from the Latin term Persona meaning masks which were first used in Greek drama, and later adopted by Roman players. Most definitions are agreed that personality is the totality of ones physical or inherited attributes as well as those psychological factors that determine ones characteristic behavior. Hence personality involves characteristics like: 1. Physical 2. Mental 3. Emotional 4. Social 5. Moral

    Factors in Personality Development


    Inherited Predisposition 2. Abilities 3. Family and Home environment 4. Culture
    1.

    Ways of Improving Personality


    1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

    Self-appraisal Effective regulation of emotional life Social relations Work Love and Sex Self Philosophy of life

    Frustration
    Frustration results from the blocking or thwarting of goal-directed behavior resulting in an unpleasant state of tension, anxiety and heightened sympathetic activity.
    Social NonSocial

    Personal

    Internal Conflict

    Kinds of Conflict

    Approach-Approach Conflict Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict Approach-Avoidance Conflict Double-Approach-Avoidance Conflict

    Consequences of Frustration
    A. Restlessness and Tension

    B. Aggression and Destructiveness


    C. Apathy D. Fantasy E. Stereotypy F. Regression

    Abnormal Behavior
    Viewpoints of an Abnormal Behavior: 1. Normative View 2. Statistical View 3. Social Viewpoint 4. General View An abnormal behavior is a neurosis or psychoneurosis a benign mental disorder.

    Classification of Psychoneurosis
    Anxiety Reaction Neurasthenia Hypochondriasis

    Dissociative Reactions

    Conversion Reaction

    Phobias

    ObsessiveCompulsive Reactions

    Repression

    Kinds of Adjustment
    Escape Responses A. Motives for Adjustment Projection

    1. His goal-directed behavior is blocked; he is frustrated. 2. There is a conflict between motives. Intellectualization 3. There is an increase in intensity ofIdentification a motive. B. Types of Adjustment Mechanisms
    Substitution Reaction Formation

    Rationalization

    Mental Health and Psychotherapy


    Mental Health is a state of good adjustment with a subjective state of well-being, zest for living and the feeling that one is exercising his talents and abilities. Characteristics of a Mentally-Healthy personality: 1. Adjusted 2. Productive 3. Zest for living 4. Sensitive

    Psychotherapy
    Psychotherapy is the application of specialized techniques to treat mental disorders or to everyday problems of adjustment.
    1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

    6.
    7. 8.

    Free Association Client-centered or Nondirective Therapy Psychotherapy based on the Learning theory Group therapy Psychodrama Role Playing Family Therapy Eclectic Approach

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