Barriers to Personal Growth

Question 1

What are the three critical components to change?

Answer 1

Ready
Willing
Able

Question 2

What is the Psychodynamic Perspective created by Freud?

Answer 2

Freud says we are driven by relentless desires.

We do things even if they are bad for us because of these intrinsic (natural) desires

Question 3

Control-Mastery theory by Weiss & Sampson

Answer 3

If you repeat it enough times you will have mastery.

When you learn something early on in life, it will be more difficult to change.

Question 4

Attachment and object relations perspective

Answer 4

Early relationships and interactions help lay the foundation for our blueprint of the world
E.x. “marriage always ends in divorce”

Question 5

Behavioral perspective

Answer 5

Behavior that is rewarded is reinforced.

Weighing reward vs consequences

Question 6

Ambivalence to Change and Growth

Answer 6

• Approach-Approach: Choose between two similarly attractive choices (Hot Cheetos vs Doritos)
• Avoidance-Avoidance: Choose between two evils (Trump vs Hilary)
• Approach-avoidance: both attracted to and repelled by the same choice (Infadelity/Cheating)
• Double approach-avoidance: torn between two alternative. Extra options
  Decisional Balance: ability to achieve necessary balance in weighing potential choices

Question 7

Prochaska and DiClemente

People don’t change because:

Answer 7

• They can’t
• They don’t want to
• They don’t know how
• They don’t know what to change
  A combination of all these things