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Terica Adkins

Bakhtawar Bhada

PSYC 001 #35693

2/24/2019

Schools of Psychology:

I think the perspective in psychology that I most agree with is humanism. . When I was

taking a child development course at PCC, Professor Enis stated that a child can’t flourish if their

upmost basic needs aren’t met. If a child lives in a home where food is scarce their main

prerogative would be forced on getting enough to eat for the day. If they are subjected to

violence and fear, be it in their homes or their communities these children will constantly be in a

fight or flight mentality all of which makes it harder for both teacher and students. At my current

job, we use an approach to child development called conscious discipline. Conscious Discipline

focuses on some of the social/ emotional needs of the children. Is the approach “developing

discipline within children rather than applying discipline to them.” on After reading more into

the humanism approach to psychology, my eyes are open to examples I’ve seen in my past and in

my present day of work. I have children in my group. The majority of those children have just

turned three within the last 2 months. And like any toddler we have meltdowns. The meltdowns

happen because the children are at a point where they don’t know what else to do or how to

properly express theirselves. Some times they get into inconsolable state because they’re

hungry, tired or missing their parents. Other times it could be something. That seems so minute

to us, like a scratchy tag or wanted to sit in a different chair, but to them it’s the end of their

world. In this moment the children “needs aren’t being meet” and they can’t move on to the next
level. In this case it would be calming down. In conscious discipline Dr. Bailey speaks about

downloading our calm unto the children. And as psychologists we need to find what does calm

mean to each child and person they come into contact with, as they will be different