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Identity Development in Adolescence and Adulthood - course description

General information
Course name Identity Development in Adolescence and Adulthood
Course ID 05.5-WP-P-IDiAaD-23
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
Field of study WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Psychology
Education profile -
Level of studies Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2023/2024
Course information
Semester 1
ECTS credits to win 6
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr Anna Mróz
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Class 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Discussing psychological theories, problems, and dilemmas of identity development in adulthood.

The course is designed for students who want to become familiar with different approaches to identity (especially narrative identity), as well as identify their own identity pattern.

 

Prerequisites

Basic course of developmental psychology. 

 

Scope

Variety of identity theories: classical definitions and theories of identity development, identity as a process.

Narrative identity: forming of narrative identity (Dan McAdam’s theory), general narrative tones, and features of a good narrative.

Personal myths: identifying personal myth, cultural and social sources of personal myths.

Psychological aspects of good and evil in human beings (examples of well-known psychological experiments and artistic performances), dilemmas of moral development, ways of seeking personal maturity on the basis of humanistic theories, mid-life crisis, and its consequences – narrative approach.

Telling stories in psychotherapy and counseling.

Teaching methods

Student's own activity under consideration and guidance of the teacher, discussions, project, 

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Participation in discussion, short oral presentation once a semester, or writing an essay discussed in class.

 

Recommended reading

  1. Adler J.M., Wagner J.W., McAdams D.P., Personality and the coherence of psychotherapy narratives, “Journal of Research and Personality”, 41 (2007), p.1179-1198.

  2. Crossley M. (2000), Introducing narrative psychology, Open University Press.

  3. McAdams D., Josselson R., Lieblich A. (2013), Turns in the road: narrative studies of lives in transition, APA.

  4.  Meyer R., Case studies in abnormal behavior, Allyn & Bacon, Inc., 2005.

  5.  Piechowski M.M. , Rethinking Dabrowski’s Theory: I. The Case Against Primary Integration, “Roeper Review”, 36 (2014), p.11-17.

Further reading

1.  McAdams D.(1997), The stories we live by, The Guilford Press. 

2.  Rydz E., Musiał D. (eds.), Psychology of human development - selected issues. Vol. 1 . Lublin : Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II,  2010.

 

Notes


Modified by dr Marzanna Farnicka (last modification: 27-04-2023 12:11)