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Kegan, Robert Graham – Counseling Psychologist, 1979
Considers a neo-Piagetian address to the processes of personality and its implications for counseling or psychotherapy. Although the neo-Piagetian framework is different, its metaphors and premises may make it the better equipped to deal with the issues central to those psychologies most influential to the counseling enterprise. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling, Individual Development, Motivation, Personality Development

Barrett, Thomas C.; Harren, Vincent A. – Counseling Psychologist, 1979
Reviews and comments upon articles by Jane Loevinger and Robert Kegan devoted to self and ego. A spiral-process model of self-conception is offered as an elaboration of the processes that might be involved in equilibration. The clarifying purpose of theory should not be forgotten. A phenomenological perspective is presented. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Models, Personality Development, Philosophy

Zollman, Mary Ann – Journal of Correctional Education, 1993
Suggests that educators are called to define and describe truth more foundationally than before if they are to facilitate existence that is right, just, and correct. Describes the shift from the Newtonian model of what it means to be human to a more Einsteinian understanding and its requirement of more formative learning processes. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Human Dignity, Individual Development, Learning Processes
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1991
Outdoor pursuits can facilitate major psychological and philosophical change in participants, and can act as a catalyst for self-actualization. Participants are temporarily relieved from all but the basic needs in life, allowing efforts to be concentrated on intense, meaningful, personal experience. (KS)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Emotional Development, Individual Development, Needs

Unger, Rhoda K.; And Others – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
The world view of students was investigated, measuring covert causal assumptions about the relationship between the person and physical and social reality. The results indicate that people place themselves in particular intellectual arenas because of their preexisting ideology. Suggestions for further study are made. (PS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Epistemology, Ideology, Individual Development

Gever, Benson E. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1991
This article examines the descriptive influences of reading and learning disorders on personality development. It discusses the effects of biologic vulnerabilities and environmental interaction, the variant patterns of defense and symptom development at various life stages, and evidence that early development failures are key elements in later…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Environmental Influences

Ivey, Allen E.; Ivey, Mary Bradford – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1998
Developmental Counseling and Therapy offers an approach to the fourth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classification systems that enables the reframing of severe client distress as a logical response to developmental history. Specific suggestions for positive case management and practice, multicultural issues, etiology, and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Clinical Diagnosis, Counseling, Counseling Theories

Stewart, Abigail J.; Healy, Joseph J., Jr. – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
The life of British feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain demonstrates that an attempt to understand the relationship between personal experience and political activities should take account of the following: (1) the centrality of political values in an individual's identity; (2) the individual's life stage and life history; and (3) the individual's…
Descriptors: Feminism, Individual Development, Moral Development, Moral Values
Davidson, Philip M. – 1991
The concept of autonomous identity, derived from Piaget's theory of personality, is distinguished from other applications of the term "autonomy" in psychological theory. Introductory comments suggest that both biological and mental development express autonomy in the same two senses: as self-regulating and progressively self-liberating.…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Moral Development
Zuckerman, Michael – 1985
The perennial issues of which historians remind us are issues of pressure - those we experience as adults and those we put on our children. The recurrent ambivalences concern progress. Every generation imagines itself the first to be forced to confront the pellmell pace of modern life. History is nothing if not a study in unintended consequences.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Psychology, Competition, Early Childhood Education
Piechowski, Michael M. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1979
Considers the qualities of awareness of responsibility and capacity for self-evaluation, which teachers should have, how these qualities develop in a person, and whether they can be taught. Relates Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration to teachers' self-profiles and lists five levels of development defined by the theory. (MF)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development, Emotional Experience
Sheldon-Keller, Adrienne; West, Malcolm – 1995
This paper synthesizes a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on attachment theory, on the agency/communion polarity as first defined by David Bakan (1966). The question researchers sought to answer was whether or not agency/communion is best approached as a polarity--opposite and opposing forces, forces in the personality which have often…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Individual Characteristics, Individual Development

Ramey, David A. – Roeper Review, 1991
Research in the fields of management, leadership development, and human development is reviewed. The research suggests that the quality of an individual's personal life, the effectiveness of his/her professional work, and the lasting public value of his/her social contribution are contingent upon a coherent sense of personal integration and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Cognitive Development, Gifted, Individual Development

Fafalios, Irene – Montessori Life, 1997
Argues that parents and educators must strive to develop true independence within their children. Argues that independence is achieved by encouraging a strong will in children which enables them to fully develop their personality and arms them with the skills to make decisions, create positive self-esteem, and be responsible and sympathetic…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Child Behavior, Child Development, Early Childhood Education
Katz, Lilian G. – 1989
Current understandings of children's development suggest that a pedagogy is appropriate for young children if: (1) it is largely informal in structure; (2) attends to children's dispositional and emotional development and development of knowledge and skills; (3) is mainly intellectual rather than academic in focus; (4) balances individual and…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
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