After reading and dissecting this particular case that opens up chapter 11, I immediately become engaged in CJ’s story. CJ opens by giving background knowledge, which sounds like lots of fun, excitement, and adventure. The introduction shows me that CJ and spouse exited the later adolescence stage knowing exactly who they are leaving one to believe that they’re well equipped to handle the next psychosocial stage of early adulthood effortlessly. Unbeknownst to most the next stage of life and what life may bring we walk into things blinded. The beautiful thing about having accessibility to understand the life cycle and psychosocial development we can educate ourselves on the next phase taking action to prepare ourselves for what may come or
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To clearly understand you must understand the concepts in which it is formed. The concepts are the social role, role enactment, role expectations, role gain, role strain, role conflict, and role loss. For this particular case you could touch basis on each to discuss CJ and what’s going on, but I will focus on role conflict. Role conflict suggests that conflict is caused by competing demands of different roles. In this case we see the struggle between for CJ with work and family ultimately creating conflict amongst the social role, role enactment, role expectations, and role strain causing room for much conflict. Furthermore another component of the Social Role Theory that CJ is experiencing is the dimensions of life roles that vary from person to person. This particular role has multiple layers to it; the number of roles one possess, intensity of involvement in the roles, time demands of each role, and structure or flexibility of the role. CJ in my opinion is experiencing this as well contributing more isolation. CJ’s life course is off and these trajectories must be addressed to transition CJ and spouse in a different direction than what they currently are …show more content…
CJ’s awareness and ability to pinpoint the toxin in his life and what is currently dictating it is commendable. I commend this because that means that he is not committed to a life a isolation, but one of true intimacy. How does one recognize this? Well, the fulfillment theories assist us in being able to muddy-through-the waters towards self-actualization. In our text there are three identified fulfillment theories: competence motivation introduced by Robert White, Self-Acceptance introduced by Carl Rogers, and Self-Actualization introduced by Abraham Maslow, stemming from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. All three being of high importance and applicatory one stick out to me that is very specific and sequential simplifying it for all and that is self-actualization. Self-Actualization is at the top of the pyramid of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, but the last step in this process. This model is “a powerful growth-oriented motive that sits a top a pyramid of needs.” (Newman & Newman, 2015, p. 433). This sequential process spells out what it takes to get to this place of self-actualization that we all desire to achieve and clearly what CJ is beginning to transition into. This idea is supported in the text stating “human beings are always in a state of striving.” (Newman & Newman, 2015, p. 433). In order to strive to this state of being one must first travel through each stage
To clearly understand you must understand the concepts in which it is formed. The concepts are the social role, role enactment, role expectations, role gain, role strain, role conflict, and role loss. For this particular case you could touch basis on each to discuss CJ and what’s going on, but I will focus on role conflict. Role conflict suggests that conflict is caused by competing demands of different roles. In this case we see the struggle between for CJ with work and family ultimately creating conflict amongst the social role, role enactment, role expectations, and role strain causing room for much conflict. Furthermore another component of the Social Role Theory that CJ is experiencing is the dimensions of life roles that vary from person to person. This particular role has multiple layers to it; the number of roles one possess, intensity of involvement in the roles, time demands of each role, and structure or flexibility of the role. CJ in my opinion is experiencing this as well contributing more isolation. CJ’s life course is off and these trajectories must be addressed to transition CJ and spouse in a different direction than what they currently are …show more content…
CJ’s awareness and ability to pinpoint the toxin in his life and what is currently dictating it is commendable. I commend this because that means that he is not committed to a life a isolation, but one of true intimacy. How does one recognize this? Well, the fulfillment theories assist us in being able to muddy-through-the waters towards self-actualization. In our text there are three identified fulfillment theories: competence motivation introduced by Robert White, Self-Acceptance introduced by Carl Rogers, and Self-Actualization introduced by Abraham Maslow, stemming from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. All three being of high importance and applicatory one stick out to me that is very specific and sequential simplifying it for all and that is self-actualization. Self-Actualization is at the top of the pyramid of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, but the last step in this process. This model is “a powerful growth-oriented motive that sits a top a pyramid of needs.” (Newman & Newman, 2015, p. 433). This sequential process spells out what it takes to get to this place of self-actualization that we all desire to achieve and clearly what CJ is beginning to transition into. This idea is supported in the text stating “human beings are always in a state of striving.” (Newman & Newman, 2015, p. 433). In order to strive to this state of being one must first travel through each stage