Antwone Fisher was an individual that endured so many things. He faced a lot of challenges that may have seemed impossible to recover from. This story was an example of the many things that some children may experience. Antwone was not raised in an upper crust home. He did not grow up in a home in which his mother and father was present. Instead of having positive role models, he had to live with individuals that were abusive to him. When observing Antwone’s personality, one may refer to two different theorists such as Bandura and Rogers. Bandura’s theory uses the social- learning approach. This approach would explain that Antwone was a product of what he saw. This showed in the behaviors that he displayed. This approach derives from the behaviorist approach (Schultz & Schultz, 2013). Bandura would believe that one learns by observing what is taking place in his or her environment and the people that are around the individual (Schultz & Schultz, 2013). Modeling was very important to Bandura (Schultz & Schultz, 2013). In Antwone’s childhood, he seemed to not have many positive influences in his life. Even as an infant, Antwone was not born into the ideal situation. When Antwone’s mother was pregnant with him, in a correctional facility. This was where he was born. Also, his father was murdered. Due to the bad decisions of both of his parents, he was left under the supervision of his foster mother Ms. Tate. His foster mother mistreated him by being verbally and physically abusive. Ms. Tate’s daughter was also abusive to Antwone. He was molested by her. As a counselor, one may come to the conclusion that Antwone was only displaying behaviors that he saw has a child. Bandura confirmed that children who experien... ... middle of paper ... ...take small parts of each theory to help clients (Lazarus & Beutler, 1993). However, there are some concerns when doing this. There is no set criteria for constructing a theory (Lazarus & Beutler, 1993). Above all, theoretical eclectism can be helpful in counseling sessions with a client like Antwone Fisher. References Black, T., Haines, R., Washington, D., Fisher, A. Q., Danna, M., Luke, D., Bryant, J., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. (2003). Antwone Fisher. Los Angeles, CA: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Hayes, S. C. (2012). Humanistic psychology and contextual behavioral perspectives. Psychotherapy, 49(4), 455-460. Lazarus, A. A., & Beutler, L. E. (1993). On Technical Eclecticism. Journal of Counseling & Development, 71(4), 381-385. Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2013). Theories of personality (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth.
From a very young age, Bone was sexually abused by her step-father, Glen Waddell. Like Bone, Dorothy Allison also suffered abuse from her step-father, starting at the young age of five years-old. During the time of the novel, and until recent years, it was unthinkable to speak of any sort of abuse outside the household. Throughout history, children have been victims of abuse by their parents or other adults, and fo...
This essay will explore one of the possible combinations of theories on personality and explain how it can be applied in practical therapy.
Bandura’s showed evidence that we act upon what we see and hear such as his past theory of the Bobo doll study and the children that were involved in the study. The mental state is very important when it comes to learning, that reinforcement came in different forms such as the internal pride, the feeling of satisfaction and a bit of accomplishment to the children. A child that feels such as emotions the child would develop the cognitive learning and place the social learning skills into the behavior. Bandura describes the theory as a social cognitive theory in behavior (Bandura, Ross & Ross, 1961). Even though we learn new things on information or knowledge our behavior stays the same. Bandura believed that people learn new types of behaviors by either adjusting the behavior or learning the control the behavior. We change learning new things or information’s without even showing or learning new behaviors and observing other
Myers, David G. "Chapter 11: Personality." Psychology in Everyday Life. 2nd Ed. New York, NY: Worth, 2009. 292-315. Print.
The story of David Pelzer, explained through the book A Child Called It, is prominent and inspirational throughout America. It attracts the attention of countless people, and broke the hearts of many people. David Pelzer was knocking on death 's front door, as a result of his own mother´s physical, and emotional abuse. As a young boy Dave´s mother was exceedingly abusive and an alcoholic. He must escape her evil wrath and grow to be finally be free. David´s goal of a carefree life renders to be a very difficult goal to accomplish, which makes up a numerous amount of his hero’s journey.
Cervone, D., Pervin, L. A. (2008). Personality: Theory and research (10th Ed.). New York: Wiley.
Bandura was a psychologist who developed the social learning theory and the idea that children learn through conditioning & observing behaviours from role models around them and copying such behaviours. This was demonstrated through the Bobo Doll experiment where there was groups of children who had different role models and different behaviours shown towards the doll; the children were then put in a room with the same doll and their behaviours were mainly those which they had seen from the role model they had witnessed.
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, home, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life” (Steve Jobs, 1955). Throughout all of my 25 years blessed on planet earth, my personality have somewhat been compared to that of a roller coaster, filled with many ups and downs, positives and negatives, rewards and punishments. As such, I have frequently embarked on numerous journeys in a dyer attempt to discover and recollect the shattered fragments left of me. With this being said, the term personality however, could be defined as “the patterns of behavior and ways of thinking and feeling that are distinctive for each individual” (Tischler, 2007). At the completion of this paper, I intend to achieve answers to some pertinent questions for instance how has the development of personality affected or impacted on human nature. I also hope to discover the various transitions of my personality starting from infancy to present and the reason or motives behind such changes. Finally, I would like to be able to gain an in-depth understanding of a variety of Personality Theories especially the Psychoanalytical Theory of
Sethe, as the protagonist in the novel, serves as one of the main characters who undergoes one of most difficult changes, leaving her wondering what purpose she serves in this lifetime. Serving as a slave in Sweet Home, she grew to be self-loathing due to the treatment and events that occurred. The abuse that she had suffered was awful but compared to how the “schoolteacher’d wrap that string all over my head, ‘cross my nose, around my behind. Number my teeth,” (Morrison 226), it was unbearable. She was treated like an experiment, a farm animal who had to have measurements taken. She was described as having animal characteristics “you got two feet...not four,” (Morrison 194) that only made her feel less human. Her children are the only inspiration that keep...
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Feist, J., Feist, G. J., & Roberts, T. (2013).Theories of personality (8th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
In this essay I will describe the four major theories of personality and identify the advantages and disadvantages of each. The first major theory of personality is psychodynamic which was created by Sigmund Freud. The second major theory of personality is trait or five-factor model which is the most scientifically supported model. The third major theory of personality is humanistic, and Carl Rogers was the best known humanistic theorist. Finally, the fourth major theory of personality is social cognitive which was developed by social learning theorists.