Personality Development Flashcards
The combination of character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits that are unique to each specific individual.
personality
Created by Freud
- Importance of early life trauma in later mental disorders
- Emotionally painful experiences motivate behaviors
- Focuses on three parts of personality: The Id, the ego, and the superego
Psychoanalytic Theory
“pleasure principle”
immediate gratification “if it feels good, do it”
Present at birth
the id
“reality principle”
4-6months
Rational part of personality and works to maintain harmony between the external world, the Id and the superego
An effort is made to delay gratification and to satisfy social expectations
Ego
conscience or “perfection principle”
3-6 yr
Composed of self esteem that is developed in response to positive feedback
Conscience- culturally influenced “right and wrong”
-Violation of the superego’s standards generates guilt and anxiety in the individual with a strong superego.
Superego
- Oral stage (birth to 18 months)
- Anal stage (18 months to 3 years)
- Phallic stage (3 to 6 years
- Latency stage (6 to 12 years)
- Genital stage (13 to 20 years)
Development of the Personality: Freud
Relief from anxiety through oral gratification of needs.
- Oral stage (birth to 18 months)
Learning independence and control,
with focus on the excretory function.
- Anal stage (18 months to 3 years)
Identification with parent of same sex;
development of sexual identity; focus is on genital organs.
- Phallic stage (3 to 6 years
Sexuality is repressed; focus is on relationships with same-sex peers.
- Latency stage (6 to 12 years)
Libido is reawakened as genital organs mature; focus is on relationships with members of the opposite sex.
- Genital stage (13 to 20 years)
the ability to recognize behaviors that assoc. with the ID, EGO, and SUPEREGO can assist in the assessment of the developmental level and planning care.
Relevance to Nursing Practice: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
- This theory was built off Freud’s principles
- Early interpersonal relationships and experiences are crucial for personality development
- Anxiety – fear of emotional discomfort
- All behavior is aimed at avoiding anxiety and threats to self
- Interpersonal security- feeling with relief of anxiety
- Treatment involves challenging maladaptive behavior with emphasis on relationship issues
- Therapist as “participant observer”
- Awareness of dysfunctional patterns leads to change in behavior
Sullivan’s interpersonal theory
Relationship development is a major
psychiatric nursing intervention. Knowledge about the behaviors associated with all levels of anxiety and methods for alleviating anxiety helps nurses
Relevance to nursing practice: Sullivan’s interpersonal theory
Based on premise that human intelligence is one’s ability to psychologically adapt to the environment
Piaget:Cognitive development
-She is considered a nursing model and created the framework for psychodynamic nursing.
-Application of interpersonal theory
to nurse patient care
-Focuses on interpersonal relationships which can be seen as learning experiences for nurses
Peplau
Peplau’s model provides nurses with a framework to interact with clients, many of whom are fixed in, or because of illness have regressed to, an earlier level of development. Using nursing roles 18 suggested by Peplau, nurses may facilitate client learning of what has not been learned in earlier experiences
Relevance to Nursing Practice: Peplau
Stage 1
Infant: learning to depend and communicate in order to have comfort heeds met
Stage 2
Toddlerhood-learn to delay gratification and the get satisfaction through pleasing others through delaying gratification
Stage 3
Identify oneself, learns appropriate roles and behaviors by perceiving expectations of others
Stage 4
Late childhood- develop skills of participation, including compromise, competition, and coorperation
Peplau’s four stages of personality development
- Hierarchy of needs approach
- Basic needs must be met before progressing to higher needs
- Focuses on positive, feeling safe
- Having someone care
- Affiliation
Motivational psychotherapy (Maslow)
- Based on influences of social processes on the development of the personality
- Describes 8 stages from infancy to older adulthood
- Each stage consists of central age-appropriate tasks
- Resolution of each stage can be positive or negative
Erikson’s psychosocial theory
includes all the memories that remain within an individual’s awareness. It is the smallest of the three categories. events and experiences are easily recalled and considered to be within one’s conscious mind.
Examples- phone numbers, birthdays, what you ate for lunch
conscious
includes all memories that may have been forgotten or are not in present awareness, but with attention can be readily recalled.
It helps to suppress unpleasant or nonessential memories from consciousness.
ex- phone numbers or addresses that were once known
preconscious
includes all memories that one is unable to bring to conscious awareness. It consists of unpleasant or nonessential memories that have been repressed and can be retrieved only through therapy hypnosis or with certain substances that alter awareness.
unconscious
the process by with the id invests energy into an object in attempt to achieve gratification.
example- an individual who instinctively turns to alcohol to relieve stress.
Cathexis (Freud)
