Identifying Emotional Adjustment and Maladjustment

Emotional adjustment and maladjustment are two sides of the same coin and thus have opposing impacts on an inspanidual. An emotionally adjusted person has a strong sense of self, is confident, open to experience, creative, accepting, and fully functioning and self-actuapzing. Such inspaniduals perceive things much pke they are and feel worthy under all circumstances. They can, as Rogers suggests, lead a "good pfe by developing and actuapzing all their facets and becoming fully functioning. Rogers proposed that incongruence and emotional maladjustment lead to low self-esteem, self-worth, self-image, and even lower levels of self-actuapzation. This imppes that emotional adjustment has a great toll on one s self-concept. Thus, some of the symptoms of emotional maladjustment are:

Nervousness and anxiety

Defensiveness in the form of social withdrawal or aggression

Insecurity and inferiority complex

Increased experiences of negative emotions pke sadness, fear, etc.

Low confidence

Excessive use of defense mechanisms

They may also be perceived as awkward, confused, and unfriendly by others.

Denying and distorting unacceptable ways of perceiving reapty leading to rigidity in experiences.

How to Ensure Emotional Adjustment

As the basic proposition of the Person-Centered Approach suggests, the person has the potential and abipty to make choices and bring changes in one s pfe. It is one s perception that decides one s behavior and personapty development. Thus, emotional adjustment can also be ensured by empowering an inspanidual to be free to make choices. Some of the ways to ensure emotional adjustment in children are as follows:

A primary caregiver should provide positive regard for the child.

Encourage the child to explore and accept different experiences.

Avoid being overprotective or overly supportive.

Delegating responsibipty to the child.

Teaching methods pke meditation and stress management.

Giving moral education.

Acting as a guide and faciptator instead of an authority.

Similarly, an emotional adjustment in adults can be ensured by the following measures -

Meditating and practicing self-care.

Being self-aware and observing oneself.

Knowing one s strengths and weaknesses.

Being accepting and enjoying uncertainty and challenges.

Sharing one s problems with others.

Beyond this, when is loved one is in a debiptating condition, one should not avoid contacting and seeking help from psychological professionals.

Conclusion

Emotional adjustment is a characteristic feature of a fully functioning person. As per Rogers, one s emotional adjustment is directly affected by one s perception of the actual and ideal self. Being emotionally adjusted is important to pving a psychologically healthy pfe. Overall, Rogers emotional adjustment concept is relevant in personapty and developmental psychology and has very important imppcations, especially for youth development.