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    THE COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR Since the beginning of time crime was among us‚ but in today’s society there are researchers‚ scientist‚ doctors‚ and psychiatrist cramming to find ways and solutions to the behavior that make criminals do what they do. For every violent crime‚ non-violent crime‚ major crime‚ petty crime‚ reported crime and unreported crime‚ according to scientist there is a reason behind each one of them. Let’s define the word crime‚ it is a violation of

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    The Comparison between Psychodynamic and Humanistic Theory There are very distinct differences between Psychodynamic and Humanistic Counselling but both ultimately offer the help and guidance to discover why we act the way we do and why we make certain choices in our lives. Throughout this essay‚ I will endeavour to explain those major differences and you will see that despite these completely different methods of therapy‚ depending on what the problem maybe‚ they can both work very effectively

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    Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories A personality is similar to a fingerprint‚ it is distinctive. The Humanistic and Existential. Theories of personality illustrate self-actualization‚ motivation‚ existentialism and person-centered theory. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explicate the humanistic theory of motivation. Man achieves a situation in life established as self-actualization; nevertheless‚ the principle to achieving self-actualization a high level need‚ commence with

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    Psychodynamic Theory: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality To Freud‚ the mind was a mechanistic energy system that derived mental energy from the physical functioning of the body and constantly attempted to moderate this physical effort or tension by restoring it to a quiet steady (quiescent) state. This energy is not evenly distributed to all human purpose or functioning‚ and if blocked from expression will manifest itself as anxiety‚ which through cathartic release‚ prescribes a least resistant

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    The humanistic movement was established as a way to expand and improve upon the two other schools of thought; behaviourism and psychoanalysis‚ which had‚ up until the first half of the 20th century dominated psychology. An American theorist called Abraham Maslow began to research creativity in humans through art and science. He first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation”. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is most often displayed as a pyramid. The

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    Title – Critically compare and contrast two counselling theories Module code- Cg2030 Module tutor – Phill Goss Word count-2500 Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty a client is having‚ distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life‚ or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. It is always at the request of the client as no one can properly be ’sent’ for counselling.’(Counselling

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    ------------------------------------------------- ASSIGNMENT ------------------------------------------------- ON ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “DISTINGUISH TRAIT AND TYPE PERSONALITY AND DISCUSS ROGERS THEORY OF PERSONALITY” ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

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    The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth‚ that humans have the freedom to choose what they do regardless of environmental factors‚ and humans are mostly conscious beings and are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. They also believe that a person’s subjective view of the world is more important than objective reality. Two of the humanistic theorists

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    The term psychodynamic perspective refers to the theories and therapies developed by Sigmund Freud and supported by his followers. In addition to Freud‚ others who researched and practiced the psychodynamic approach‚ based on Freudian principles‚ include Adler‚ Erikson‚ and Jung. The basis of the psychodynamic perspective is to understand what is going on in the mind of an individual or ‘’to get in the head’’ of a patient to see what is going on in the unconscious part of the mind. This will provide

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    Personality is an intriguing component in psychology vital for perception of human beings. Different theories of personality adopt different levels of explaining features of human beings. Two theories meet the conditions of personality and theories of development‚ Freud ’s psychoanalytic theory later followed by Erikson ’s psychosocial theory. Freud ’s theory of personality development relates to his theories of personality structure and motivation. His topographical model of personality organisation

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