The standard reasoning for individual growth can be understood from the necessity to comprehend one’s own human needs, along with spiritual, psychological and also social growth, since a failure to understand this about one’s very own self is unimaginable if trying to understand and also associate with other people in any significant means.
A person’s development can be viewed in many different means; as an example as in Freud’s Psychosexual Growth Theory (Marshall, 2004) which considers phases of sexual advancement and also the irritations attached per phase, or Havighurst’s Developmental Phases (Sugarman, 1986) as well as Tasks which determines:
Jobs that occur from physical growth
Jobs that occur from personal values
Jobs that have their source in the stress of culture
or via Maslow’s Hierarchy of Requirements( Maslow, 1998).
Or certainly via any of the various other techniques as well as concepts that have actually been developed, and which might be studied and associated with the requirements of a counsellor in training, e.g.:
Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Advancement Concept.
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Advancement.
Kohlberg’s Phases of Precept Growth.
Gilligan’s Concept of Precept Growth.
Which is to call yet a couple of, as well as a few of which will certainly suggest more to one person than to an additional.
What is actually important is the core condition of acknowledging ourselves and others as humans with developing demands as well as developmental constructs, the understanding of which is vital to allowing a genuine understanding of the human development procedures and also the requirements essential in order to function in the direction of living a happy and also satisfied existence for ourselves, as well as for involving meaningfully with others working towards the exact same.
A person’s choices are frequently influenced by social building and construction, by adapting our individuality to harmonize the assumptions of good friends, family members as well as employers; whilst in connection with any other individual we may respond to our own subconscious and also emotionally fuelled assumptions, here are the findings. The individual we are relies on our life experiences and also feedback from others concerning exactly how we inter-relate with those people with whom we come into get in touch with, as well as the physical, social and also spiritual worlds in which we locate ourselves.
If we are to be able to associate with others whose personal construct and also developing procedures that have actually led to what they have actually come to be with any type of genuine empathy as well as congruence, we need to initially understand our own construct. In taking duty for finding out about our own emotional and social actions, understanding as well as growth, we act authentically; yet permitting our social construct to make choices for us could be seen as acting un-authentically.
Maslow’s Power structure of Demands takes a premise that as soon as one of the most basic human requirements are satisfied it ends up being possible to proceed via successively advanced degrees of demand, to culminate in ‘self actualisation’. If we engage in discovering this process we allow ourselves the chance to develop a partnership with one’s self which causes and also makes it possible for the establishment of a more understanding connection with others.
This hierarchy of requirements is based on a ‘Humanistic’ method and the concept of ‘self actualisation’ as defined by Carl Rogers, that emphasized that self-awareness of the person, on a conscious level, is one of the most crucial method to operate in comprehending behaviour by referring to the internal framework (Rogers, 1961).
Taking a look at Kohlberg’s stages of moral development (Kegan, 1983) assists us to comprehend where an individual might have troubles if they have not gone through such moral growth via lack of social or social get in touch with, or through absence of understanding.
It is only by creating our own understanding of individual development concepts and techniques that we can develop the abilities and also methods to help others who are suffering from some absence of individual growth or some misdirected thinking developed throughout their training.
