GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Major Theoretical Models

1. Psychodynamic model (Freud)
1. Assumptions and key ideas
   1. No human behavior is accidental; each psychic event is determined by preceding ones.
   2. Unconscious mental processes occur with great frequency and significance.
   3. Psychoanalysis is used to uncover childhood trauma, which may involve conflict and repressed feelings.
   4. Psychoanalytic methods are used: therapeutic alliance, transference, regression, dream association, catharsis.
2. Freud-shifted from classification of behavior to understanding and explaining in psychological terms and changing behavior under structured conditions.
   1. Structure of the mind: id, ego, superego; unconscious, preconscious, conscious.
   2. Stages of psychosexual development.
   3. Coping mechanisms