I. The Multidimensional Approach
Under the personal dimensions, the psychological person is the dimension that has the most influence on Maisie at her age of nine years old. In the multidimensional approach, the psychological person encompasses the mental processes of a person, taking into account the mind and the way that they think, emotions they may feel, and their perception of themselves (Hutchison, 2013). This concept is the most relevant to Maisie because the issues that she and her family were going through were all due to Maisie’s feeling on her past couple of years, her psychological state in that time period, and how she viewed her relationship with others, especially Sue, Maisie’s adoptive mother. Since most of those issues were …show more content…
The bursts of anger that Maisie experienced, the self-inflicted violence she turned to when she was mad at herself and others, and the poor way she treated others must have all been learned behavior that she witnessed and experienced in her life prior to being with Sue and Jim. Maisie lived through violence and became traumatized; two crucial reasons as to why she acts out. Before therapy, her coping mechanisms were to act out the things she had seen before, which pertain to a concept called vicarious learning (Hutchison, 2013). A study shows that vicarious learning experiences can influence cognitive and behavioral responses to the fear emotion (Askew & Field, 2007), which could very well be what Maisie experienced. Her lashing out and bursts of anger could have been due to her fear of the violence that she was put through mentally or the fear of being returned to the foster care system and having to start all over again with a new …show more content…
The movie began to film at a time when the stage that relates to Maisie the most are the preoperational stage, within the ages of two to seven years, even though Maisie is nine years old, but she is slowly transitioning into the concrete operations stage, ages seven to eleven years. This is because Maisie appears to be egocentric but can still not apply logical problem solving in her life (Hutchison, 2013). Her egocentrism is seen at the beginning, before she begins therapy, when she lashes out towards her adoptive family. She never took into consideration the people around her, like Sue or Jim, which she might be hurting by having her anger spurts or by physically lashing out. She begins to grow out of this stage towards the end, when she is filmed saying that she feels bad for doing the things she does because she does not want to hurt her mommy any longer. So she’s starting to get a grip and understand that the ways she was acting were not right, and that might be due to her cognitive development and
Under the personal dimensions, the psychological person is the dimension that has the most influence on Maisie at her age of nine years old. In the multidimensional approach, the psychological person encompasses the mental processes of a person, taking into account the mind and the way that they think, emotions they may feel, and their perception of themselves (Hutchison, 2013). This concept is the most relevant to Maisie because the issues that she and her family were going through were all due to Maisie’s feeling on her past couple of years, her psychological state in that time period, and how she viewed her relationship with others, especially Sue, Maisie’s adoptive mother. Since most of those issues were …show more content…
The bursts of anger that Maisie experienced, the self-inflicted violence she turned to when she was mad at herself and others, and the poor way she treated others must have all been learned behavior that she witnessed and experienced in her life prior to being with Sue and Jim. Maisie lived through violence and became traumatized; two crucial reasons as to why she acts out. Before therapy, her coping mechanisms were to act out the things she had seen before, which pertain to a concept called vicarious learning (Hutchison, 2013). A study shows that vicarious learning experiences can influence cognitive and behavioral responses to the fear emotion (Askew & Field, 2007), which could very well be what Maisie experienced. Her lashing out and bursts of anger could have been due to her fear of the violence that she was put through mentally or the fear of being returned to the foster care system and having to start all over again with a new …show more content…
The movie began to film at a time when the stage that relates to Maisie the most are the preoperational stage, within the ages of two to seven years, even though Maisie is nine years old, but she is slowly transitioning into the concrete operations stage, ages seven to eleven years. This is because Maisie appears to be egocentric but can still not apply logical problem solving in her life (Hutchison, 2013). Her egocentrism is seen at the beginning, before she begins therapy, when she lashes out towards her adoptive family. She never took into consideration the people around her, like Sue or Jim, which she might be hurting by having her anger spurts or by physically lashing out. She begins to grow out of this stage towards the end, when she is filmed saying that she feels bad for doing the things she does because she does not want to hurt her mommy any longer. So she’s starting to get a grip and understand that the ways she was acting were not right, and that might be due to her cognitive development and