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  2. Existential crisis - Wikipedia

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    At the center of the sophomore crisis is the anxiety over one's future, i.e. how to lead one's life and how to best develop and employ one's abilities. [ 2 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Existential crisis often specifically affect high achievers who fear that they do not reach their highest potential since they lack a secure plan for the future.

  3. Flourishing - Wikipedia

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    It is evident from our assumptions (happiness was assumed to be the best thing, and ends-the best among goods-are in the soul; but things in the soul are states or activities), since the activity is better than the disposition, and the best activity is of the best state, and virtue is the best state, that the activity of the virtue of the soul ...

  4. Social development theory - Wikipedia

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    Social development theory attempts to explain qualitative changes in the structure and framework of society, that help the society to better realize aims and objectives.. Development can be defined in a manner applicable to all societies at all historical periods as an upward ascending movement featuring greater levels of energy, efficiency, quality, productivity, complexity, comprehension ...

  5. Actualizing tendency - Wikipedia

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    The actualizing tendency is a fundamental element of Carl Rogers' theory of person-centered therapy (PCT) (also known as client-centered therapy). Rogers' theory is predicated on an individual's innate capacity to decide his/her own best directions in life, provided his/her circumstances are conducive to this, based on the organism's "universal need to drive or self-maintain, flourish, self ...

  6. Ideation (creative process) - Wikipedia

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    Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic unit of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract. [1] Ideation comprises all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation , to development, to actualization. [ 2 ]

  7. Five stages of grief - Wikipedia

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    Alongside the well-known stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, Kübler-Ross detailed other "stages" such as shock, partial denial, preparatory grief (also known as anticipatory grief), hope, and decathexis, which refers to the process of withdrawing emotional investment from external objects or relationships. [27]

  8. Maturity (psychological) - Wikipedia

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    Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court decision banning the execution of mentally retarded persons, was decided on the grounds that "diminished capacities to understand and process mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others" was cited as the evidence supporting a ...

  9. Dual process model of coping - Wikipedia

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    The restoration process is a confrontation process that allows the person to adjust to a world without the deceased. People in this process can feel subjective oscillations of pride and grief-related stressors in the avoidance mentalization. This process allows the person to live their daily life as a changed individual without being consumed ...