early expereinces

unconscousiness motives and conflicts central in present behavior

person driven by sexual and aggressive impulses

early development critical

repressed childhood conflicts

a positive view of human nature is stressed

humans are motivated by social interests, striving towards goals and dealing with tasks of life

in control of fate not victims

nature of human condition

capacity of self awareness

freedom of choice

responsiblity

aniexty is a basic element

search for a unique meaning in a meaningless world

decide ones fate

views of human is positive

there inclinded to become fully fuctioning

client expresses feeling that were denied to awareness

Increase of self awareness

trust in self and inner directedness

person strives for wholeness

integration of thinking, behaving, feeling

insight as to early influences relate to present diffculties

moves from environmental support to self support

potential for choice

Something once decided can be redecided

person may be victim of early decisions, andpast scripting self defeating aspects can be changed with awareness

Behavior is the product of learning

We are the product and the producer of environment

human are born with potentials for rational thinking but also with tendencies toward crooked thinking.

Fall victim to irrational beliefs

Therapy is oriented toward cognition, behavior, and action and stresses thinking, judging,analyzing, doing, and redeciding

Therapy is a process of reeducation

Freud Structual Theory

Three internal structures guide personality functioning

ID- seat of primitive drives and instinctual needs

impulses, unconscious, primary proces thinking, discharge of tension

EGO- Mediator -the drive between the ID and external reality

Moderates- conflict between drives and internalized prohibtions

Adapative- the capacity in relation to external reality

reality testing, judgement, controlling impulses, modulating affect, object relations, regulate self estem, mastering devleopmental challenges

Superego- the seed of conscious, ego ideal

uses internal & external rewards or punishments to control and regulate id impulses

3 levels of the mind

Frued

Unconscious- thoughts, feelings, desire, memories that we are aware of.

Preconscious- thoughts and feelings that can be brought into conscious easily

Conscious- mental activites of which we are fully aware

Human Growth and Development/developmental phases

Freud

5 psychosexual stages

0-1 yrs           Oral           

2-3                Anal

3-6                Phallic/Oedipal

6-11               Latency

12-18             Puberty genital

Human Growth and Development/developmental phases

Piaget 4 cognitive development

0-2 yrs.  sensorimotor thought

2 1/2 - 6 or 7 yrs.     preoperational thought

7-11 yrs    concrete operations

11-18 yrs.  formal operations

Human Growth and Development/developmental phases

Erickson 8 psychosocial stages

0-1 yrs.      Basic trust vs, mistrust

1-3 yrs.       sense of automony vs. shame & doubt

3-5 yrs.       sense of intiative vs. guilt

6-11 yrs.     sense of industry vs. inferiority

12-18 yrs     sense of indenty vs. identity defusion

18-mid 20's  sense of intimacy vs. isolation

adulthood     sense of generativity vs. self absorption

Mauturity      sense of integrity vs. disgust