PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: William Damon, Prosocial Behavior, Family Therapy
18 Dec 2019
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Parents less skilled in discouraging antisocial behavior and in encouraging prosocial behavior. Family discord and inconsistent and inappropriate discipline. Low self-control, low intelligence, lack of sustained attention. Family therapy is often effective in reducing delinquency. Values: beliefs and attitudes about the way things should be. We attach value to all sorts of things: Politics, religion, money, sex, education, helping others, family, friends, career, recognition, self-respect, and so on. Ask them what their goals are to measure their values. Todays college freshman more motivated to be well-off financially then to find the meaning of life than 40 or even 20 years ago. stronger interest in welfare of society. However, some signs that us college students are shifting toward a. Their goals focus on short term instead of long term future. According to william damon, too many youth are rudderless , or don"t know what they want o do with their lives. that increases an individual"s connection to a sacred or transcendent.
