THE FILIPINO

PERSONALITY & SOCIAL

WORK
 WHAT IS HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL
ENVIRONMENT (HBSE)
• Is concerned w/ the material necessary for understanding the
client in his problem situation, the dynamics of individual and
group behavior, and of group and community process which
affects or influence the individual, the group and the
community.
WHAT IS BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL-SPIRITUAL BEING
• Means that there are inseparable, interacting forces-
biological, psychological, social and spiritual that
influence human behavior and personality.
 INSEPARABLE INTERACTING FORCES IN
HUMAN BEING
1. Biological component– includes a person’s state of health and nutrition, genetics and natural
physical endowment. This likewise includes any deviation from normal social functioning such as illnesses
and physical disabilities.
2. Psychological component – is concerned with the person’s personality, comprising what is
commonly termed “inner state”. This has three aspects as follows:
1. Cognitive – this is the perceptual or intellectual part of the inner state. This is the one who think,
who perceive and process.
2. Emotional – this is the part of the inner state who usually dictates what and how to feel. The
immediate reaction of human being to abnormal situation is most of the time dictated by this part of
the inner state.
3. Conative – this is the striving tendency to do actively or purposefully. Other authors described this
aspect as the spiritual dimension of the component.
3. Social component – includes the following elements:
1) Institutional – this simply means the organizational arrangement in the society.
2) Status – this contains characteristics of persons and their position in the society as
seen in the way persons are described.
3) Normative – the forms in which social behavior are expressed, and the social
rules that shape these forms.
4) Interactive – this is the type of interaction and perception of interactions made
of self and others that serves as basis of behavior.

It is certainly true that the individual is a biopsychosocial-spiritual being.

It proves a common Filipino saying as “Ang sakit ng kalingkingan ay

ramdam ng buong katawan”
SOCIAL FUNCTIONING
• Interaction between man and his environment.
• The individual manner of coping with the demands of his environment.

HUMAN IS COMPOSED OF

BODY
SOUL
SPIRIT
STRUCTURES OF THE BODY
•SKELETAL
•MUSCLE
•NERVOUS SYSTEM
•CIRCULATORY
 THE FILIPINO TRADITIONAL VALUES
1. SIR – Smooth Interpersonal Relations
-it pleases somebody.
2. Pakikisama
-is the folk concept of good human relations and implies giving or yielding to the wish
of the majority even if it contradicts one’s own idea.
3. Go-between
-is also used in attempting to resolve a conflict or when no one is hesitant to approach
a person of high status or an authority.
4. Reciprocity of Utang na Loob
-is the universal form of behavior. It is a principle where every service
received, whether solicited or not, demands a return.
5. Utang na Loob – Debt of Gratitude
-it is an obligation to repay a person from whom one has received a favor.
6.– Love of Self
Amor Propio -high self-esteem and is shown in the sensitivity of a person to hurt
feelings and insults, real or imagined.
7. Bahala na
-rest on the belief that one can leave matters as they are following the lines of least
resistance, as the super-natural spirits will take care of him/her.
8. Ningas Cogon - easy to fade
9. Mañaña Habit - delaying work.
10. Hele-hele bago qiere
-behavior that a person initially refuses an offer if she/he subjected to more
prodding.
11. Crab Mentality
-mental attitude of putting down other people to prevent them from reaching the top.
12. Compadre System
-practice of chosing well-known or affluent persons to act as godparents in wedding or baptisms.
13. Colonial Mentality
-mental attitude of preferring imported products or ideas over locally made ones.
14. Palabra de honor
-keeping one’s word or doing what had promised.

 Euphemism
 Dyphemism
 INDIGENOUS IDENTITY OF THE FILIPINO
VALUES
1. Hospitality- warm welcome to our visitors.
2. Subsistence- present oriented.
3. Pakiramdam- is the value of shared inner perception which refers to
heightened awareness and sensitivity.
4. Paninindigan- approximates the value of commitment and conviction
of a person.
5. Lakas ng loob- is an internal feeling which is the moving force to
saying the good.
6. Pakikipagkapwa- which implies accepting and dealing with a person
as an equal and an awareness of shared identity.
THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING
BY; NORHAYA P. GONSAYAN