KEY CONCEPTS for SHB (Self-Help Book)
What are some "key" concepts that you plan to include in your paper?
This is somewhat subjective since there are so many concepts covered in this course and we can't dictate to you what is most relevant to your life and your experience of forming & maintaining intimate relationships. However, you can probably bet that I will be looking for the following concepts in everyone's paper:
** Attachment (eitheror both of [A] the 3 main styles which formed in childhood and/or [B] the 4 adult styles that involve belief about self AND others)
** Anxiety (Self / Relationship / Spillover...at the very least Self & Relationship Anxiety).
** The Relational Dances (even if you're not in one, you need to talk about what tendencies you have based on whether you'd be more likely to have fears about boundaries (pursuer-withdrawer) control (over/underfunctioning) or autonomy / mutuality (submissive-dominant). Be sure to attempt some kind of exploration about what your rejected self and projected self are (since relational dances are about two people getting locked into a process of mutual projection).
** Boundaries
** Something that wrestles with either Prager (so a developmental view of some concept(s)) or Lewis, et al. (so something about the influence of brain functioning on some concept(s)).
What would you add??
Comments
In my paper thus far, I have included a lot of information on Gender Roles and Norms. This might be an important topic to talk about.
Posted by: Rachel Carmichael | April 13, 2007 3:28 AM
Those are definitely the key concepts required for a self help book.
Great article.
-Ryan
Posted by: Wholesale | November 5, 2008 9:09 PM