Lerner (2006) proved throughout his first volume of the “Handbook of Child Psychology” that the study of human development has indeed come a long way. Gone are the days when psychology is the sole field of science formulating a positivist, reductionist theory to describe and explain maturation since an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between an individual and one’s context gradually rose to the occasion. Another notable happening in support of this claim would be the paradigm shift
– What is GRIT? At first glance one might be tempted to begin a mental review of what this acronym might represent. GRIT is, however not an acronym, but rather refers to tenacity, perseverance, and the ability to never give up. “GRIT gives us resilience …Our GRIT helps us determine how to
the Biopsychosocial model The importance of a lifespan perspective to study health and illness was highlighted by Townsend and Davies, who suggested that 'any satisfactory explanation of health must build essentially on the cumulative dispositions and experience of the lifetime with multiple causation' (1988;104). However, it was noted that there was a surprisingly sparse recognition of the contribution of lifespan or developmental psychology to health psychology. Throughout people's lifespan, their
Students and Seroquel In a piece titled "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges", Peter Gray (Ph.D.) examines the growing trend of mental instability among university students. Collegiate faculty, and, in particular, college counselors, have reported higher rates of psychiatric disorders in campus resident's year after year. Though Gray concedes that this problem is multifaceted, he places the majority of blame two parties: academia and parenting, proposing that their tendency
Selecting biology and psychology, alongside sport, has developed my knowledge of physiological processes, anatomy as well as widening my opinions and theoretical interpretations. Further enhancing my organisational skills, my subjects and undertaking the EPQ, have enabled me to
order to allow them to develop as motivated as well as gritty people. The use of participation trophies promotes the idea to kids that they won’t have to work for things in life, and everything they desire will simply be handed to them. Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck shared insight into her daughter’s experience with playing soccer, in which “[she] rarely showed up for her soccer team. She had a terrible attitude… [but] at the end she got a giant trophy and would have been devastated had
prevalent today as a way of life or religion. Zhuang Zi, an ancient Chinese philosopher that is a Daoism advocate, believes in being in harmony with the world we live in. The world is an all encompassing entity to Zhuang Zi, and, besides placing importance on equality, he believes that knowledge acquirement is an unrushed and natural process. The best way, to Zhuang Zi, to attain the Way is to be natural. While I do agree with Zhuang Zi that one should strive for equality and be constantly well-paced
The “Western psychology helps somebody who feels they are nobody become somebody,” and thus it is centered on one’s own self and accomplishments (Thurman 442). The Western civilization focuses happiness as depended on the individual and independent of all other factors
on their actions. Gratitude interventions are strongly related to general health, and there is an indication that this relationship may be unique and causal. Gratitude interventions have commonly been highlighted as a key success of the positive psychology movement (Bono, & Judge, 2004; Seligman et al., 2005), and as an especially clinically relevant technique (Duckworth, Steen, & Seligman, 2005; Seligman et al., 2006). Therefore, the present study used two types of gratitude interventions, namely: