scholarly journals How Humanistic Is Positive Psychology? Lessons in Positive Psychology From Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach—It's the Social Environment That Must Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Person Centered Approach ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Both positive psychology and the person-centered approach share a common aim to promote human flourishing. In this article I will discuss how the person-centered approach is a form of positive psychology, but positive psychology is not necessarily person-centered. I will show how the person-centered approach offers a distinctive view of human nature that leads the person-centered psychologist to understand that if people are to change, it is not the person that we must try to change but their social environment. Centrally, the paper suggests that respecting the humanistic image of the human being and, consequently, influencing people's social environment to facilitate personal growth would mean a step forward for positive psychology and would promote cross-fertilization between positive psychology and the person-centered approach instead of widening their gap.

The Perfectionist Turn

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas J. Den Uyl ◽  
Douglas B. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Good For

This chapter argues against the claim advanced by Daniel Haybron, Daniel C. Russell, and Mark LeBar that human self-perfection is ultimately based on notions of well-being and human flourishing that we bring to our understanding of human nature and in favor of the idea that it is human nature itself that ultimately grounds our understanding of human well-being or human flourishing. In doing so, the question of whether there is some gap between (a) what it is to be a good human being and (b) what is good for a human being is addressed. It is shown that the arguments on behalf of a such a gap fail and that the version of perfectionism that is advanced—that is, individualistic perfectionism—is ideally suited to not only avoid such a gap but also to display their unity, especially when perfection is understood as a process of living things and not as some cosmic or metaphysical process.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF «HUMAN NATURE» AS AN AXIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE

2021 ◽  
pp. 413-422
Author(s):  
Guzel K. Saikina ◽  
◽  
Zulfiya Z. Ibragimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essential Idea ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ontological Framework

In the philosophy of the 20th century, the idea of the absence of nature in man was established, due to which the concept of «human nature» became a rudiment in anthropological knowledge, and man himself began to be comprehended as «unsupported». In the era of the «biotechnological revolution», this concept turns out to be inconvenient for the transgressive game of man with his own limits. However, the problematization of a person in modern anthropological discourse can occur in many respects precisely through questioning the human nature. In the era of developed biotechnologies, for the purposes of human ecology, modern anthropology should not so much deny as assert the nature of man, since the concept of «human nature» indicates an ontological framework that preserves the authenticity of man, ensuring the continuity of all his historical forms. In contrast to the interpretation of the concept of human nature as opposed to the social essence (as a base physical, material, biological, vital part of human being), it is heuristically significant to elevate it to a socially significant axiological principle, filling it with value content by raising the status of the human nature. This is especially important due to the fact that this concept is substantively included in ethical, social and humanitarian expertise of biotechnological projects. Without the axiological development of this concept, bioethical and ecological discourses will lose strength and persuasiveness. A person is always incomplete, multidimensional, multifaceted, therefore there cannot be a single essential idea of a person capable of becoming the cementing foundation of anthropological knowledge, as the first generation of «philosophical anthropology» representatives hoped for. Still, man is one anthropological type with a single nature. As a result of the study, a hypothesis has been put forward that it is the reanimation of the concept of «human nature» that will give unity to anthropological knowledge and become its «ideological core».

scholarly journals Person Centered and Trauma Informed Approach in Social Work Practice and Ways to Ensure Diversity in both Approaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Niket Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Person Centered Approach

Person-Centered approach is an adapted work of Carl Rogers, where the focus was mainly on psychotherapy and counselling. Rogers believed, the basic nature of an individual is constructive and trustworthy – given that the individual is freely functioning. Person-Centered approach is the backbone of social work practice alongside trauma-informed approach. Any emotionally and physically daunting events that affects the response of an individual is trauma. Trauma damages the freely functioning state of an individual – emotionally, socially and behaviorally. By introducing an approach that is trauma-informed will help social worker to not only understand the emotions of the individual while working with them but also guide the social work practice in better understanding while working with the individuals.

scholarly journals DESAFIOS DA PRÁTICA PASTORAL NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 499
Author(s):  
Eduardo Leandro Alves ◽  
Júlio Cézar Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biblical Principles ◽  
Pastoral Practice ◽  
Pastoral Action

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar fundamentos da ação pastoral, com vistas a compreender que a ação pastoral e a pregação são interdependentes, cuja relevância está intimamente ligada no envolvimento diário com aqueles que estão no “raio de alcance” pastoral. Inicialmente, com o intuito de compreender o ambiente social em questão, utiliza-se o método de etnografia da pesquisa social. Em seguida utiliza-se caminhos propostos pela Teologia Prática identificando princípios bíblicos para a pregação na ação pastoral com vistas a alcançar o objetivo de cuidar do ser humano conforme os ensinos do Evangelho de Jesus.  Busca-se alinhar neste texto a teoria com a prática do pesquisador no pastoreio de uma igreja Pentecostal. Assim, as perspectivas aqui registradas não visam a ser exaustivas ou normativas, mas fazem parte de um recorte no exercício pastoral nessa comunidade de fé.The purpose of this article is to analyse the basis of pastoral action in order to understand that both pastoral action and preaching are mutually dependent. The relevance of pastoral action is related to the daily engagement with those who are within the pastoral scope. Firstly, an ethnographic method of social research is used to properly understand the social environment at issue. Secondly, the paths proposed by Practical Theology were followed. They identify biblical principles for preaching in order to reach the goal of caring for the human being according to the teachings of Jesus. An alignment of the theory with the practice of the researcher as shepherding a Pentecostal church is attempted. Thus, the perspectives showed are not intended to be exhaustive or normative but they are taken from an example of the pastoral practice in that faith community.

scholarly journals ANTROPINĖS NUOSTATŲ TEORIJOS PAGRINDINIAI BRUOŽAI

Psichologija ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
D. Nadirashvili ◽  
† Nadirashvili S.
Keyword(s):  
Motor Activity ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
The Social

Nuostatos (angl. attitude) sąvoka psichologijoje atsirado siekiant paaiškinti suvokimo iliuzijas. Remdamasis eksperimentiniais tyrimais Dimitrijus Uznadzė (1886–1950) parodė, kad suvokimo iliuzijos nėra būdingos išskirtinai tik motorinės veiklos sričiai. Jos gali reikštis bet kurio modalumo suvokiniuose. Ž. Piažė gruzinų mokslininko tirtą nuostatos reiškinį pavadino Uznadzės efektu ir pritaikė jį savo plėtojamos intelekto raidos teorijos aiškinimui. Socialinė nuostata kaip nešališkos objektyvios tikrovės priedėlis reiškia tam tikrą išankstinį požiūrį į kitus žmones ir visą socialinę aplinką. Nuostatos skiriasi savo turiniu, komponentais ir susidarymo būdais. Socialinių nuostatų analizė grįsta asmens santykių (predispozicijų) su socialinėmis vertybėmis nustatymu. Iš esmės per nuostatas išreiškiamos ir pačios socialinės vertybės, ir atvirkščiai, per socialines vertybes – nuostatos. Nuostatų (ir socialinių vertybių) savumus galima matuoti skaitinėmis skalėmis. Mes savo tyrimų praktikoje naudojame 11 balų skalę. Tokia skale galima matuoti: socialinių vertybių valentingumą (teigiamą-neigiamą nuostatos kontinuumą), valentingumo stiprumą (kaip stipriai išreiškiama teigiama ar neigiama nuostata), palankumo zoną (kokio laipsnio nuostatos asmeniui dar priimtinos), tolerancijos zoną (kokio stiprumo nuostatas asmuo dar gali toleruoti), nuostatos siaurumo-platumo (aštrumo-difuziškumo) kontinuumą (kiek reikia padaryti žingsnelių norint išsiaiškinti, kokį reiškinių ar įvykių ratą nuostata aprėpia). Žmogaus psichinės raidos rezultatas yra sąmoninga, pažintinė ir morali elgsena. Į tokios raidos procesą nuostatos taip pat aktyviai įtrauktos. Aukščiausias žmogaus psichinės raidos apraiškas lemia būtent socialinės nuostatos.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nuostatos, situacinė, dispozicinė ir sensorinė-motorinė nuostata, palankumo zona, tolerancijos zona.Basic points of the antropic attitude theoryNadirashvili D., † Nadirashvili S. SummaryThe reason for the introduction of the concept of attitude was the explanation of illusory perceptions. On the basis of experimental studies D. Uznadze demonstrated that the illusions of perception are connected not solely to the motor activity sphere. It can appear in every modality of perception. J. Piaget called the phenomenon identified in the above-mentioned method “the Uznadze effect” and used it for the characterization of specific stages of the development of intellect.Social attitude, in addition to the unprejudiced objective reality, implies disposition towards other people, social environment. Attitudes, besides differing by the content and components that are depicted in them, differ from each other by ways of formation.Characterization of social attitudes is performed according to what disposition exists towards the social values expressed through them. Its peculiarities are measured on a number scale. For this purpose we use an 11-point scale. On this scale, attitude is characterized by: valency – positive-negative disposition for social values; valency intensity – how more intensive is attitude valency according to positivity and negativity; the zone of acceptance, which expresses the intensity of attitudes acceptable for a person; the zone of toleration – a zone of the intensity of attitudes, which can be tolerated by a person; sharpness-diffusivity attitude, which shows by how many steps can the attitude of a person be characterized, etc.On the human being level of psyche development, conscious, cognitive, and moral behaviors emerge. Attitudes are actively involved in these processes as well. At the highest level of psyche development, the activity of a human being is determined by social attitudes.Key words: attitude, situational attitude, dispositional attitude, sensory-motorial attitude, zone of acceptance and toleration

FACTORS OF MILITARY STUDENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
A. B. Kovalenko ◽  
E. Yu. Hryshchuk ◽  
N. I. Rohal
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Military Students ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Being There

The article considers the factors of military students’ psychological well-being. The examined military students had average levels for all scales of psychological well-being. They can be mainly characterized as independent people, not afraid to express their opinions contrary to the majority opinion, as open to communication and new experience mastering, capable to achieve the desired and overcome life difficulties. The indicators of psychological well-being of male and female military students were almost indistinguishable according to all studied scales, except for “self-acceptance”, “positive relations with others”, and “good relations with loved ones”. In particular, men, compared to women, had higher self-acceptance, which was manifested in a more positive assessment of themselves and their lives. Women had better relationships with their social environment and loved ones, expressing themselves in a more trusting, friendly relationship, openness to communication, compassion and empathy. The performed factor analysis revealed two structural components of the military students’ psychological well-being, namely: purposefulness/ independence (clarity and stability of the intended goal vector, striving for independence and self-dependence, responsibility and ability to make important decisions); approval by the social environment (subjective awareness of life satisfaction because of positive evaluation of existing social contacts and the approval and recognition of one’s image by his/her the social environment). The factors of psychological well-being of male and female military students were determined. In particular, there were for men: autonomy, environmental management, personal growth, purpose in life, short social distance, and subjective psychological well-being. There were for girls: positive relationships, autonomy, self-acceptance, social approval, positive attitude, subjective psychological well-being.

scholarly journals Pobreza, Educação e os Direitos Humanos Dentro da Sociedade / Poverty, Education and Human Rights Within Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (57) ◽  
pp. 888-895
Author(s):  
Andressa Alberti ◽  
Bruna Becker da Silva ◽  
Renan Souza ◽  
Eliton Marcio Zanoni ◽  
Adriano Alberti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Goods

Resumo: A sociedade em meio aos seus vários aspectos norteadores da formação do ser humano, busca responder por meio de vários estudos como melhorar o desenvolvimento do meio social e da vivencia entre os seres humanos. A pobreza não é falta de cultura ou falta de educação, muito menos a falta de bens materiais como muitas pessoas pensam, pois a compreensão dela é muito mais complexa do que isso e é de suma importância a compreensão sobre isso. O presente artigo presente artigo, por meio de uma revisão da literatura, pontua sobre pobreza, educação e os direitos humanos dentro da sociedade. Palavras Chave: Ser Humano, Sociedade, compreensão. Abstract: Society, in the midst of its various aspects that guide the formation of human beings, seeks to respond through various studies on how to improve the development of the social environment and experiences among human beings. Poverty is not lack of culture or lack of education, much less the lack of material goods as many people think, because understanding it is much more complex than that and understanding about it is of paramount importance. The present article in this article, through a literature review, points out about poverty, education and human rights within society. Keywords: Human Being, Society, Understanding.

scholarly journals PSYCHOGENITY OF THE HUMANIZED ENVIRONMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Sergiy Boltivets
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The future of psychological science as we see it depends on our ability to understand the phenomenon of psychogenity of man and of the groups of people in their significance to himself and to every other human being. Psychogenity as we define it, is an ability of the humanized environment to create, reflect, transform, save and expose the constellation of psychic manifestations of the own natural essence of every man as a psychological unity. We consider the humanized environment in the sense broader than that of the social environment as we keep in mind not only the mutual influence of people, but also the fact that human life is mediated by the human environment. The latter is one of the most important components equilibrating human psychogenity, the world exists for man only in its humanized sense.

scholarly journals On the Social and Empirical Nature of Kant’s Transcendental Anthropocentrism: The Problem of Human Nature

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (29) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Oleg Leszczak
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Formal Aspect ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
The Social

This paper presents a conceptual-discursive analysis of Immanuel Kant’s texts from the viewpoint of the ontological essence of humanity (the so-called human nature). On the basis of a functional-pragmatic methodology, the author proposes a metalanguage for a pragmatic conceptual analysis of Kant’s philosophical discourse, together with his own idea of a human as a person, human being, individual, character, and bearer of human traits. The paper consists of two parts. Part One presents the principles by which the human personality is structured, as well as the fundamental methodological questions of the essence of humanity. Part Two analyzes Kant’s notion of “human nature” in both the formal aspect and that of systematic localization. It also considers the issues of social pragmatics and the empirical motivation of “human nature,” which arise from a discursive analysis of texts by Kant. The author attempts to demonstrate that Kant was one of the first philosophers to discern the specificity of human nature in social relations of human personality, which he presented neither in a causal-deterministic form (as a spiritual substance handed down from generation to generation) nor an essentialist one (as a timeless transcendental essence), but rather as a function of social experience for a particular human being (both pragmatic-teleological and transcendental-a posteriori).

scholarly journals Foreword

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 00001
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Social

The focus of the international scientific conference Society. Health. Welfare is on the human being in diverse relations with the contemporary world. The social environment, personal and public health and opportunities of enhancing one's personal and public welfare are mutually related factors. The outcomes of studies addressing these diverse relations are revealed in Volume 2 of the collection of papers of the conference “Society. Health. Welfare 2016”. The collection consists of 44 papers written by authors from Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Russia.

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