Personal Development Reviewer (Quarter 1) PDF

**PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT** **REVIEWER (QUARTER 1)** Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise their potential. **Self-concept** - refers to your awareness of...

**PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT** **REVIEWER (QUARTER 1)** Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise their potential. **Self-concept** - refers to your awareness of yourself. - 2 broad categories: - Ideal Self- is the self that you aspire to be - Actual Self - is the one that you see. It is the self that has characteristics that you were nurtured or in some cases, born to have. Personal effectiveness means making use of all the personal resources-talents, skills, energy, and time to enable you to achieve goals. - **Determination.** It allows you to focus only in achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less important things or spontaneous desires - **Self-Confidence.** It appears in the process of personal development as a result of getting aware of yourself, your actions and their consequences. - **Persistence.** It makes you keep moving forward regardless of emerging obstacles- problems, laziness, bad emotional state, etc. - **Managing Stress.** It helps combat stress that arises in daily life from the environment and other people - **Problem-solving skills**. They help cope with the problems encountered with a lack of experience. - **Creativity.** It allows to find extraordinary ways to carry out a specific action that no one has tried to use. - **Generating ideas.** It helps you achieve goals using new, original, unconventional ideas. - **PERSONALITY** that stretches from the day a person started to see and experience life in the world leading to gathering information, knowledge, acquiring skills, possessing emotional responses, and making choices differently from other people - **EXPERIENCES** that shape you on how you act and behave today. - **HABITS** that normally we do everyday in our lives such as our eating habit, personal hygiene practices, meditation exercises, and trying new things. - **CREATIVITY** such as dancing, painting, singing, producing useful things out of scrap materials, defining beauty in a different way and perspective makes you unique; - **PERSPECTIVE** saying that no other people understands the world as you do because they do not live like exactly 24 hours beside you. - **TASTE** that is a unique facet of you because you have different likes and dislikes from other people; - **GOALS** that are set in different manners depending on how you create steps and procedures in achieving those; - **HOBBIES** that improves your personal growth and mental health such as gardening, cooking, and gaming - **PASSION** that provides direction toward a goal or experience that will allow us to leave a unique mark in this world such as involvement in philanthropic activities like giving and supporting people in need. Holistic Development The process of self-actualization and learning that combines an individual's mental, physical, social, emotional, spiritual growth. **Aspects of Holistic Development** **Physiological Development** - Rapid body growth - Hair growth - Muscle modification The changes are preparing you to become physically capable of biological reproduction **COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT** - The brain continues to develop - You are beginning to think from concrete to abstract terms and able to conceptualize theoretical ideas - Problems are now being evaluated logically and scientifically. **PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT** - The brain continues to develop - You are beginning to think from concrete to abstract terms and able to conceptualize theoretical ideas - Problems are now being evaluated logically and scientifically. **SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT** - You begin to rely more on your friends or peer groups for support than on your family. However, you are more prone to peer pressure. **SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT** - You begin to have interest in spiritual concerns. You start pondering on questions concerning existence, essence of spirituality, religion and God. **Developmental Period** **EARLY ADOLESCENCE** - 10-14 years old - The changes in hormones happen which contribute to mood swings - Physical growth and changes are vividly significant. - Due to various body developments many become curious to what is happening to them which sometimes resulted to anxiety. - This stage is where they value much of their privacy and their independence. - Understanding abstract ideas is not that substantial but has eagerness to learn. - Begins thinking and considering spiritual and moral values **MIDDLE ADOLESCENCE** - 15 to 17 years old - Puberty stage is almost complete. - Development in physical aspect becomes slower among females but it continues among males. - Emotionally unstable most of the time which is linked to the social and school environment. - Most of them are egocentric which means they think more on themselves, for they are more self-conscious on how they look or how they appear to other people. - Most of them spend more time with their peers rather than with their parents and siblings. - The period of risk-taking behaviors. - They find satisfaction in exploring and trying new things. - Begins to think outside the box and starts to plan for their future. - Idealistic yet still unable to apply in real life situations - Become interested and involved in a romantic relationship - 18 to 24 years old - Considers mental and cognitive growth - Maturity becomes evident with regard to decision-making - They become less impulsive, more critical and rational - They now have a better control with their emotions - Can now identify their own core values. - Start to value family relationship, becomes emotionally stable. - Life-plans are more specific - Faith in God is stronger. **EMERGING ADULTHOOD** - This development stage happened between ages 18-25 which occurs after the adolescence period and before young adulthood. - This is more described as a period of identity exploration. **STRESS** It is the reaction of the mind and body to stimulus that causes tension on the well-being and disturbs the state of calm or equilibrium of a person Stress as STIMULUS - Caused by situations (which often called stressors) that may be life threatening or life changing. Examples: Car accident, breakup with boyfriend or girlfriend, and separation from loved ones Stress as RESPONSE - This is the aspect of stress emphasized by Selye (1956), the way the body reacts to challenging situations. It involves the interactions between the hormone Stress is RELATIONAL - Lazarus and Folkman\'s (1984) definition of stress reflects very clearly this way of thinking. - Assessment here means that when a person allows reasoning to prevail and weigh the relevance or irrelevance of situation. Example of this is a flight delay. **[The Brain Stem]** connects the spinal cord and the brain. It controls functions that keep people alive such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and food digestion. CEREBELLUM This region controls voluntary movement. - Ex. When you want to lift your fork, wave your hand, brush your hair or wink at a cutie, your form the thought and then a area in the cerebellum translates your will into action. - Is the largest of the three brain sections, accounts for about 85 percent of the brain's weight, and has four lobes. - [Lobes-frontal], [Parietal], [Temporal] and [Occipital] Herrmann Brain Dominance PPT Slide 1 **MENTAL HEALTH** - Having good mental health helps you make good decisions and deal with life\'s challenges at home, work, or school. - A mental illness is a health problem that significantly affects how a person feels, thinks, behaves, and interacts with other people. It is diagnosed according to standardized criteria. - Bi-polar disorder changes the way people feel emotions - If people have bi-polar disorder, their emotions can go from happy to sad very quickly - "mania." experience intense feelings of happiness. - "depression" feel intense sadness and tiredness. - is a mental health challenge that makes people feel very sad all the time. - A person diagnosed with depression can feel so sad that it makes it hard to think clearly or they feel that nobody loves them. - Depression can be very hard but people with depression can get better, too and learn how to enjoy life - **[Anorexia]** refers to weight loss that occurs from not eating. - **[Bulimia]** refers to eating large amounts of food over a short period of time followed by an attempt to get rid of the food. This getting rid of food is called \"purging.\" - **[Extreme overeating]** is marked by eating, and then having feelings of guilt and shame. - PTSD - It is normal to feel afraid sometimes but people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) feel scared even if they are safe and there is nothing to be afraid of. - **Schizophrenia** makes it hard for people to know what is real and what is not real. - Schizophrenia can make the brain think it sees or hears things that aren\'t there. - A person diagnosed with schizophrenia can also start to think that people are trying to control them or read their minds. 1. **Self-awareness:** Exhibited by self-confidence, realistic self assessment and self offensive sense of humor. Most people with high Emotional Intelligence perceive their emotions and that they don't let their feelings rule them. They understand their strengths and weaknesses, and they work on these areas so they can perform better. Also, can cope with their feelings simply. 2. **Self-Management:** Exhibited by credibility and truthfulness, comfort with uncertainty and honesty to change. This is the capability to control emotions and impulses. Persons who self- control typically don't allow themselves to become too irritated or jealous, and they don't make spontaneous, careless decisions. They really think before they do something. 3. **Self-Motivation:** Exhibited by a strong force to realize optimism, and high organizational commitment. Persons with a high emotional intelligence are willing to postpone immediate results for long-term success. They are highly creative, love a challenge, and are successful in whatever they do 4. **Empathy:** Exhibited by know-how in structuring and retaining talents, and crosscultural sensitivity and check to clients and customers. This is the ability to recognize with and understand the needs desires, and viewpoints of those around you. Empathetic persons avoid stereotyping and judging too promptly, and they live their lives in an open, and honest way. 5. **Social Skill:** Exhibited by the capacity to lead change efforts, expressiveness, and skill in building and leading teams. Persons with strong social skills are naturally team players. Rather than center on their own victory, they help others to build up and excel. They can manage disputes, are outstanding communicators, and are masters at building and maintaining relationships