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Self-Direction in a Changing World

PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT

Overview Social Change

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Overview Social Change

Self-Direction

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Overview Social Change

Self-Direction

Themes of Personal Growth

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Self Direction

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Self Direction

The need to learn more about ourselves

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Self Direction

The need to learn more about ourselves and our world

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Self Direction

The need to learn more about ourselves and our world as a

means of directing our lives more effectively.

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Self-Direction & Culture

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Self-Direction & Culture

• Individualistic Culture

• Collectivist Culture

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• Individualistic — individual gain appreciated more than

general societal gain.

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• Individualistic — individual gain appreciated more than

general societal gain

• Collectivistic —

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• Individualistic — individual gain appreciated more than

general societal gain

• Collectivistic — collective or societal gain cherished over

individual advancement

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• In the United States, independence, freedom, and rugged individualism are celebrated.

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• In the United States, independence, freedom, and rugged individualism are celebrated.

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• In the United States, independence, freedom, and rugged individualism are celebrated.

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices,

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:

o“freezing up”

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:

✓“freezing up” o“drifting”

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:

✓“freezing up” ✓“drifting” o“shared decision making”

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:

✓“freezing up” ✓“drifting” ✓“shared decision making” o“appeal to some type of authority”

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Freedom can overwhelm us when making important life choices, and lead to various strategies and outcomes:

✓“freezing up” ✓“drifting” ✓“shared decision making” ✓“appeal to some type of authority”

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How do we cope?

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How do we cope? Self-awareness

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How do we cope? Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and behavior.

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How do we cope? Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and behavior.

• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi

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How do we cope? Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and behavior.

• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself”

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How do we cope? Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and behavior.

• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself

• Ralph Waldow Emerson, “Know Thyself”,

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How do we cope? Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your thinking and behavior.

• Ancient Greek, temple of Apollo at Delphi, “Know Thyself

• Ralph Waldow Emerson, “Know Thyself”, theme. . . “the God within”

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How do you not become completely. . . narcissistic,

self-centered, self-pitying?

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How do you not become completely. . . narcissistic,

self-centered, self-pitying?

. . .practicing how to relate and cooperate with others despite our differences & desire for personal freedom.

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Taking Charge of Our Lives

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Taking Charge of Our Lives

• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.

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Taking Charge of Our Lives

• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.

• Altruism,

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Taking Charge of Our Lives

• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.

• Altruism, the desire to help others at a cost to ourselves (Koltko- Rivera, 2006).

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Taking Charge of Our Lives

• Acting on our personal freedom entails taking charge of and being responsible for our own and sometimes others’ lives.

• Altruism, the desire to help others at a cost to ourselves (Koltko- Rivera, 2006).

• Altruism, generally, plays a larger role in collective than in individualistic societies.

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Personal Value Assessment

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