Fundamental shared learning and early participation in discussions

¶ … personality is a branch of psychology that deals with personality and variations among individuals. Personality is an organized and dynamic set of characteristics possessed uniquely by individual, and influenced by emotion, cognitions, motivation, and environment. In other words, the personality is referred as pattern of feelings, thoughts; social adjustments as well as behaviors exhibited by individual that strongly influence one's self-perceptions, expectations, attitudes and values. (Vink, Nawijn, Boomsma, & Willemsen, 2007).

Humanistic Theory

The paper uses the Humanistic theory to explain the concept personality. The humanistic theory argues that people generally possess freewill that determines the way they behave. The reason for chosen humanistic theory to explain personality concept is that the theory focuses on individual subjective experiences and definitive factors that determine human behaviors. The basic idea of humanistic theory is that it focuses on the present rather than the future. The goal of humanistic theory is to assist people developing a healthier and stronger sense of actualization in order to gain a meaningful sense in life.

Despite the significant benefits of humanistic theory with reference to personality, there are still some criticisms centered on the theory. The critics believe that the humanistic theory is too optimistic and fail to identify negative side of human nature. Moreover, the humanistic theory "is biased towards individualistic values." (Vink, Nawijn, Boomsma, & Willemsen, 2007 p 1948). Despite these shortcomings, the humanistic theory can assist in treating depression. Depression is a type of mental illness associated with sadness, and the humanist theory suggests that people can be depressed when they are unable to cope with a life circumstance. The approach to treat depression is to use a holistic point-of-view with reference to human being and assist individuals to choose their destiny.

UNIT 6 DISCUSSION

Depression is one of the psychological disorders that adults are coping in these days. As being discussed in the previous section, depression is associated with mental illness that is often characterized by feelings of bad mood or sadness no matter the circumstances an individual may found himself. Different theoretical approaches have provided method of treating depression. Psychoanalytical theoretical approach attempts to treat depression through couch or talk therapy. (Shopper, & Gunsberg, 2009). The theory believes that the causes of depression can be well understood from early childhood and there is a need to analyze the problems of psychosexual stages in order to over the problems. (McCrae, 2001).

On other hand, the cognitive theory believes that depression is often caused by the self-deprecating thoughts and cognitive approach try to change people negative thinking by assisting them to change the way they view themselves and the world. Social and behavioral learning approach points out that depression can be learnt through an interaction with social world and environment. These include thing people observe, and the depression can be overcome by learning the cause of depression from others. Trait approach suggests that depression is caused from an individual's character. (McCrae, 2001).