Chapter 1
Working toward fulfilling our potential, toward becoming all that we are capable of becoming.
Self-Actualization
Is a turning point in life, a moment of transition characterized by the potential to go either forward or backward in development.
Crisis
Is shown in a genuine caring for one’s self and others.
Compassion
Which refers to chronic problems in getting adequate sleep
Insomnia
Results from something blocking attainment of your needs and goals.
Frustration
Is one who is continually working toward becoming self-actualized
Fully Functioning Person
Takes into account race, socioeconomic class, disability, gender, ethnicity, and culture as central factors that influence the course of development throughout the individual’s life cycle.
Self-in-context perspective
Combines cultural messages, parental teachings, and the early decisions we made as children.
Life script
Is a lifestyle choice and a lifelong process that involves taking care of our needs on all levels of functioning.
Wellness
Another source of stress, occurs when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression.
Internal conflict
Holds that personal change tends to occur when we become aware of what we are as opposed to trying to become what we are not (Beisser, 1970).
Paradoxical Theory of Change
The first stage of psychologist Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. Infants learn to trust that their caregivers will meet their basic needs. If these needs are not consistently met, mistrust, suspicion, and anxiety may develop.
Trust versus mistrust
Refers to the attitudes and beliefs we have about ourselves and others that are a direct result of things we learned from our parents or parental substitutes.
Inner Parent
Encompasses our relationship to the universe and is an avenue for finding meaning and purpose in living.
Spirituality
Is a state of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual exhaustion characterized by chronic fatigue, weakness, low energy, and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.
Burnout
Used as a source of motivation, the hierarchy of needs consists of a 5 tier pyramid to assist in guidance toward self-actualization.
Hierarchy of needs
Many children exposed to traumatic events demonstrate an ability to adapt to this adversity, which is known as r
Resiliency
And other cognitive behavioral therapies are based on the premise that emotional and behavioral problems are originally learned from significant others during childhood.
Rational emotive behavior therapy
Refers to a set of beliefs that connect us to a higher power or a God.
Religion
Any instrumental approach to stress management that is generally considered to be adaptive or otherwise positive.
Constructive coping
the overcoming of the limits of the individual self and its desires in spiritual contemplation and realization.
Self-transcendence
Is the second stage of Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. This stage occurs between the ages of 18 months to around age 2 or 3 years.
Autonomy versus shame and doubt
Positive interpersonal factors such as growth-fostering relationships and mutual empathy as well as cultural factors that facilitate validation and empowerment for marginalized populations
Relational-cultural theory (RCT)
Focuses on all facets of human functioning and requires that we take responsibility for maintaining all aspects of our well-being.
Holistic health
As a result of empathic engagement with people who have been through traumas such as the ones described thus far—sexual abuse, rape, incest, sexual harassment, torture, natural or manmade disasters—those in the helping professions may be vulnerable to experiencing trauma themselves
Vicarious traumatization