Personal Development

Personal development is a lifelong

process. It's a way for people to
assess their skills and qualities,
consider their aims in life and set
goals in order to realise and
maximise their potential.
Physical development
Physical development  is the process
that starts in human infancy and
continues into late adolescent
concentrating on gross and fine motor
skills as well as puberty. 
Physical
development involves developing
control over the body, particularly
muscles and physical coordination.
 Cognitive Development
In other words, cognitive development is
the emergence of the ability to think and
understand. A large portion of research
has gone into understanding how a child
imagines the world. Jean Piaget was a
major force in the establishment of this
field, forming his "theory of cognitive
development".
Psychosocial development

Psychosocial development the 
development of the personality, 
including the acquisition of 
social attitudes and skills,
from infancy through maturity.
 INFLUENCES
ON
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
HEREDITARY
Inborn traits passed on by the
generations of offspring from both
sides of the biological parents’
families;
ENVIRONMENT
The world outside of ourselves
and the experiences that result
from out contact and
interaction with external word
MATURATION
• the emergence of personal and
behavioral characteristics through
growth processes
• the stage or process of attaining maximal
development; attainment of maximal
intellectual and emotional development
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
VS.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTT
Personality refers to individual
differences in characteristic patterns of
thinking, feeling and behaving. 
• the set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that
makes a person different from other people
• attractive qualities (such as energy, friendliness, and humor)
that make a person interesting or pleasant to be with
• attractive qualities that make something unusual or
interesting
PERSONAL
• belonging or relating to a particular person
• made or designed to be used by one person
• used to describe someone whose job involves
working for or helping a particular person
DEVELOPMENT
• the action or process of developing
• the process of growth and differentiation
by which the potentialities of a zygote,
spore, or embryo are realized
• the gradual advance through evolutionary
stages : evolution.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
The process in which persons reflect upon
themselves, understand who they are, accept
what they are, accept what they discover about
themselves, and learn or unlearn new sets of
values, attitudes, behavior and thinking skills to
reach their fullest potential as human beings.
“the process od striving to be the best
that you can be in order to reach and
realize you full potential. It is a
journey of self-discovery, self-
improvement, and self-realization”
-Zorka Hereford (9 Essential Life Skills – A Guide
for Personal Development and Self Realization)
 ORIGINS OF
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
THEORY OF
EVOLUTION
RELIGION
 PSYCHOLOGY
AND
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
PSYCHOLOGY AS FOUNDATION OF
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Psychology is the study of behavior and
mind, embracing all aspects of conscious and
unconscious experience as well as thought. It is
an academic discipline and a social science
which seeks to understand individuals and
groups by establishing general principles and
researching specific cases.
Humanistic psychology 
is a psychological perspective that
emphasizes the study of the whole
person. Humanistic psychologists look at
human behavior not only through the eyes
of the observer, but through the eyes of
the person doing the behaving.
 PROPONENTS OF
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY

ABRAHAM MASLOW (HEIRARCHY OF NEEDS)

CARL ROGERS (PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE)
Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
was a humanistic psychologist who agreed with
the main assumptions of Abraham Maslow, but
added that for a person to "grow", they need an
environment that provides them with
genuineness (openness and self-disclosure),
acceptance (being seen with unconditional
positive regard), and empathy (being listened to
and understood).
Rogers believed that every person can achieve
their goals, wishes and desires in life. When,
or rather if they did so, self actualization took
place.
“INDIVIDUAL has within himself the capacity
and tendency, latent if not evident, to move
forward toward maturity.
Positive Psychology is the
scientific study of the strengths that
enable individuals and communities to
thrive. “positive psychology stresses
that human nature has its good and
positive strengths, as well as it
inadequacies and weaknesses”.
“ The field is founded on the belief that
people want to lead meaningful and
fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best
within themselves, and to enhance their
experiences of love, work, and play”
 -Positive Psychology Center (University of
Pennsylvania)
 PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN
ADOLESCENCE
ADOLESCENCE
the period following the onset of puberty
during which a young person develops from
a child into an adult
EARLY ADOLESCENCE – 10 – 13 YEARS OF AGE
MIDDLE ADOLESCENCE – 14 – 16 YEARS OF AGE
LATE ADOLESCENCE – 17 – 20 YEARS OF AGE
Adolescence can be a time of both
disorientation and discovery.
The transitional period can bring up issues of
independence and self-identity; many
adolescents and their peers face tough choices
regarding schoolwork, sexuality, drugs, alcohol,
and social life. Peer groups, romantic interests,
and external appearance tend to naturally
increase in importance for some time during a
teen's journey toward adulthood.