ALHT106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Passive-Aggressive Behavior, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Specific Language Impairment
ALHT week 9 face to face lecture Personality
LO 4: Explain the major theories of motivation, emotion and personality and their use in
helping to explain allied health practices
What did Tim cover?
- Trait theories
- Psychodynamic theory
- Humanistic theories
- Social-cognitive theories
- Positive psychology
Why do allied health professionals need to know about personality?
- Unhelpful labels vs applying evidence-based psychology to your allied health practice
- Examples: “this person has personality”
What benefits are there for allied health professionals to understanding personality?
- Work well as part of a health care team
- Take care of your own health and wellbeing
- Promote wellbeing of clients and their families
- Be a street smart reflective professional who does not draw from unhelpful labels
and myths when trying to understand behaviour of others
Definition
- Personality refers to enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour
that are expressed in different circumstances
Dean
- 10 years old
- Likes fishing
- Developmental language Disorder
- Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Reading disorder/dyslexia
- Behaviour difficulties: ADHD symptoms
- Attends: physio, OT and speech pathology sessions fortnightly
- Behaviour
oHe is described as ‘clumsy’, ‘poor eye-hand coordination and balance’
- Teacher report:
oPeers avoid Dean as he can be ‘rough’ and ‘hurt them’
oWill walk ‘through’ a group ‘without seeming to see them’
oPicked last on sports teams, poor loser (aggressive)
Deb attends allied health team family meeting with speech pathologist (Cameron), OT
(Bella) and Physio (Matt)
- Dean is fighting with Cassie constantly
- He wants to drop out of all team sports as no one wants him to be on their team
- He is having difficulty with friendships
- He seems really unhappy
Five Factor Model
- O = openness
- C = conscientiousness
- E = extraversion
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- A = agreeability
- N = neuroticism
- E Dean likes socialising but finds it difficult to make friends. For example, when he
is picked last to play sports
- A Dean feels bad as he has been angry with his classmates for not picking him on
sports teams and it makes him feel lonely
- N Dean has been a lot calmer doing King Calm practice
- O His teacher suggested that Dean is good at running, it’s more the coordination
with ball sports that he has trouble with. Dean doesn’t see the point of being good at
running as he still doesn’t get picked on the sports teams
- C Dean is not very organised. Deb has noticed an improvement since he has started
doing mindfulness in his SP/OT sessions. It seems to be helping him regulate
emotions and think clearly to get organised
Trait Approaches
- Contribution:
oAs Deb was worried about Dean becoming a “rotten egg”, reflecting on
temperament and traits was useful
oIt isn’t just Dean feeling awkward about team sports, it’s feeling that he is
being left out by his friends
oDean has reported feeling calmer, that he wants to make friends and try new
hobbies
oResearch (twins studies) shows that personality traits are only approximately
50% heritable Nature and Nurture
Psychodynamic Perspective
- Psychodynamic theory
oPast events in childhood determine one’s adult personality
oFreud initially proposed humans are motivated by 2 “drives”, Sex and
Aggression
oLater psychodynamic theorists emphasise other needs in addition to Freud’s,
Self-esteem (feeling good about oneself) and Relatedness (forming
relationships with others)
oConceptualise motives in terms of wishes (desired) and fears (undesired)
oMost distinctive aspect of psychodynamic theory is unconscious (ID, EGO and
SuperEgo)
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Document Summary
Alht week 9 face to face lecture personality. Lo 4: explain the major theories of motivation, emotion and personality and their use in helping to explain allied health practices. Unhelpful labels vs applying evidence-based psychology to your allied health practice. Work well as part of a health care team. Take care of your own health and wellbeing. Be a street smart reflective professional who does not draw from unhelpful labels and myths when trying to understand behaviour of others. Personality refers to enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are expressed in different circumstances. Attends: physio, ot and speech pathology sessions fortnightly. Behaviour: he is described as clumsy", poor eye-hand coordination and balance". Teacher report: peers avoid dean as he can be rough" and hurt them", will walk through" a group without seeming to see them", picked last on sports teams, poor loser (aggressive)
