What are the characteristics of the actualizing tendency in person-centered therapy?

What will be an ideal response?


Individual yet universally present for all individuals; holistic for the organism not just for the self-concept; ubiquitous and constant throughout all situations; directional toward realization of potentialities; moves toward autonomy and away from heteronomy; though never ending in its grit, is vulnerable to distortion and muting by environmental circumstances; different from self-actualizing, which represents an attachment to a self-concept away from openness to experience and therefore provides a basis for pathology; awareness of self and experience is a distinctively human path for internal direction; and finally, leads people to socially constructive behavior.

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a. Specify level of academic performance b. Specify instructional arrangement c. Identify special education and related services d. Specify nutrition provided by the cafeteria

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Critical knowledge theory asserts that ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Which of the following represents the relationship between the suicide rate of young Black males and young White males?

a. They are the same b. White males' rate is higher c. Black males' rate is higher d. Blacks don’t commit suicide

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___________ of individuals reported being religious or spiritual in the United States in research conducted by the Princeton Religion Research Center in 1996.

a. 53% b. 70% c. 35% d. More than 90%

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