PSYC37H3 Chapter 13: Chapter 13
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Chapter 13: applications in clinical and counselling settings. personality as the relatively stable and distinctive patterns of behaviour that characterize an individual and his/her reactions to the environment. structured personality tests attempt to evaluate personality traits, personality types, personality states, and other aspects of personality, such as self-concept. personality traits refer to relatively enduring dispositions tendencies to act, think, or feel in a certain manner in any given circumstance and that distinguish one person from another. personality types refer to general descriptions of people; personality states refer to emotional reactions that vary from one situation to another. self-concept refers to a person"s self-definition or, according to carl rogers, an organized and relatively consistent set of assumptions that a person has about himself or herself. at the broadest level, the strategies are deductive and empirical. One can in turn divide each of these strategies as follows. Deductive strategies comprise the logical-content and the theoretical approach.
