What are the conditions that are necessary for development or change?

Reading:
Tan, S. (2011). Counseling & psychotherapy: A Christian perspective. Baker Academic.
Chapter 4: Psychoanalytical Therapy

Discussion Prompt: Implicit Theory of Counseling
This biblical perspective will give you the opportunity to evaluate how to integrate a biblical worldview with current counseling and psychology research. It is also a place for you to reflect on your own personal faith and values. Please be respectful to others with your responses.
In the first chapter, Tan (2011) suggests that we all have our own implicit theory of counseling, even if we are unaware of it or have never articulated it before. This is an operating framework for how we understand human nature and what we believe causes people to change. As you begin exploring explicit theory, it is helpful to articulate your own views and monitor how they may shift or develop throughout your study and experience in this course.
To begin articulating your current implicit theory, please address the following prompts. Be sure to use examples from Scripture to back up your claims. In your responses to peers, be both respectful and curious as to your peers’ views. Try to help them think and reflect more deeply through encouragement and questions.
Human nature: Are people basically good? Evil? Both? Neither?
Role of the environment in personality development: To what extent does the social environment play on the development of one’s personality?
Functionality: What elements make for human function and dysfunction? What do function and dysfunction mean or look like?
Personality change and development: How does one’s personality develop or change? What are the conditions that are necessary for development or change?

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