Personal Narrative: My Personal Development Assessment
Personal Development Assessment
Personal development of each individual is unique. Understanding and assessing human behavior includes being knowledge able about human development. We are complex individuals and it is important to focus on the dynamics interaction among biological, psychological, and social aspects of development. Different aspects of development act together to affect an individual’s complete growth and maturity. (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, 2013, 2010)
In this essay, I will describe my personal development through the life-span development of my childhood and adolescent. Through this process I will understand more about myself and how is my development compare with the normal development milestones.
My Childhood
I was born …show more content…
I am the 7th child of my parents. My mother had twelve pregnancies of that we born 11 children, she lost a pregnancy of twins, and my little sister Rosario of three months old died in the hospital. I remember my brothers and I were waiting for her and she never came home, she was the youngest in the family. For many years my mom was victim of domestic violence from my dad. My father since I remember he smoked and was alcoholic. My mom didn’t have primary care during her pregnancies and she didn’t take any prenatal vitamins. I was born at home with the assistance of “la partera”. When I was born I was rejected and I had the psychologic absence of my father. My first years of life I had a normal development. I was a happy child, even though living within poverty and suffering struggles by the consequences of my father’s alcoholic addiction. During my childhood my mother was my role model she had not any addiction and she had a strong spirituality. Since I was very little she taught me to love God, Mom gave me spirituality that helped me to overcome many of my worries, fears and difficulties at that time. I felt God as a real father. God at that time replaced that absence of my …show more content…
I was so happy in the secondary school in my town. I was involved in sport activities at school, and I was a good student. My best subject at school was science and my weakest subject was math. I had always the support of my siblings and I was in love for first time. I had a beautiful life at school I felt respected and love for many people. At home it was a little different and I also had responsibilities. My relationship with my siblings were no so good, for a time I preferred be with my friends than be with my sisters. My older sisters had an important influence in my life. I hardly could take my own decisions. The relationship with my parents were limited, I do not remember listen to my parents talking to me about sex, but my mother taught me a lot of values, respect and my father gave me courage to keep studying. Besides going to school at this age, having responsibilities at home I was involve in sports and in religious activities. During my adolescent years I did not have any addiction I was afraid of those things as well as my
Personal development of each individual is unique. Understanding and assessing human behavior includes being knowledge able about human development. We are complex individuals and it is important to focus on the dynamics interaction among biological, psychological, and social aspects of development. Different aspects of development act together to affect an individual’s complete growth and maturity. (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, 2013, 2010)
In this essay, I will describe my personal development through the life-span development of my childhood and adolescent. Through this process I will understand more about myself and how is my development compare with the normal development milestones.
My Childhood
I was born …show more content…
I am the 7th child of my parents. My mother had twelve pregnancies of that we born 11 children, she lost a pregnancy of twins, and my little sister Rosario of three months old died in the hospital. I remember my brothers and I were waiting for her and she never came home, she was the youngest in the family. For many years my mom was victim of domestic violence from my dad. My father since I remember he smoked and was alcoholic. My mom didn’t have primary care during her pregnancies and she didn’t take any prenatal vitamins. I was born at home with the assistance of “la partera”. When I was born I was rejected and I had the psychologic absence of my father. My first years of life I had a normal development. I was a happy child, even though living within poverty and suffering struggles by the consequences of my father’s alcoholic addiction. During my childhood my mother was my role model she had not any addiction and she had a strong spirituality. Since I was very little she taught me to love God, Mom gave me spirituality that helped me to overcome many of my worries, fears and difficulties at that time. I felt God as a real father. God at that time replaced that absence of my …show more content…
I was so happy in the secondary school in my town. I was involved in sport activities at school, and I was a good student. My best subject at school was science and my weakest subject was math. I had always the support of my siblings and I was in love for first time. I had a beautiful life at school I felt respected and love for many people. At home it was a little different and I also had responsibilities. My relationship with my siblings were no so good, for a time I preferred be with my friends than be with my sisters. My older sisters had an important influence in my life. I hardly could take my own decisions. The relationship with my parents were limited, I do not remember listen to my parents talking to me about sex, but my mother taught me a lot of values, respect and my father gave me courage to keep studying. Besides going to school at this age, having responsibilities at home I was involve in sports and in religious activities. During my adolescent years I did not have any addiction I was afraid of those things as well as my