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N.B. - Different course units may vary in length, style and credit value according to subject, level and tutor. The typical core text for a 3-course unit will normally have 150 to 250 pages. Students are responsible for purchasing textbooks. The total length of all assignments for a 3-course unit is normally 5,000 words. Many units include an essay of 1,500 to 3,000 words as one of the assignments. This unit has been specially edited for inclusion in this prospectus and some additional information, e.g. on extra resources, is omitted.

PSY 280 TEMPERAMENT, CHARACTER AND INTELLIGENCE (3 credits)

Description of Unit

Jungian personality type (most widely known through the work of Myers and Briggs) has become a popular and invaluable theory with applications in counselling, psychotherapy, education, team building, careers and management. A knowledge of the 16 personality types and how they live, think and interact can promote understanding and tolerance between very different individuals and can shed light on the dynamics of many situations and problems. One branch of Jungian personality typology, focusing on temperament, was developed by David Keirsey out of the work of Myers/Briggs. Keirsey’s “Temperament Sorter” is a user-friendly personality questionnaire that does not require specialised training or licensing to use, and is an invaluable tool for counsellors, therapists and people helpers everywhere. This unit studies Keirsey’s work on personality and temperament, the character of the 16 types, and the use of the Temperament Sorter questionnaire to identify one’s type. It is an ideal starting point for the study of Jungian type.

Key text:

Kiersey, David. Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence. Del Mar, CA: Prometheus Nemesis Book Co., 1998. (The student will need to buy or borrow a copy of this book)

Resources

Copies of Kiersey's personality questionnaire, the Kiersey Temperament Sorter II, can be purchased from the publishers, Prometheus Nemesis Book Co. See order forms in the back of the book Please Understand Me II. You may wish to buy a bulk supply of these as coaching tools, and to use with your friends or in your counselling, therapy or teaching work.

(Additional resource information is supplied with the actual unit but not listed here)

Assignments for this Unit

(No specific reading from the set text is set for any of these assignments: please familiarise yourself with the whole book before attempting these exercises. You may also consult some of the other resources listed above. As this unit, for most students, will be their first introduction to Type, we have kept the assignment questions fairly basic so that the student can approach the answers from his or her own level of interest and expertise: beginner to licensed psychological test user. It takes years to know all the ramifications of Jungian type, and this unit is meant to give you familiarity with the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and the theory behind it.)

Assignment 1. Identifying Your Type

Use the Kiersey Temperament Sorter II to determine your psychological type. State your type and comment on any particular issues arising from using the questionnaire.

Assignment 2. Identifying a Different Type

Invite a person you know well to use the Kiersey Temperament Sorter II to determine their psychological type. State his or her type and comment on any particular issues arising from using the questionnaire.

Assignment 3. Critical Description of Your Own Type

Write a description of your own type, covering as many areas of life as you wish, commenting on how well your reading describes your type and also any ways in which you think you differ from the portraits or behaviour suggested by your reading.

Assignment 4. Critical Description of One Other Type

Write a description of the type mentioned in Assignment 2, covering as many areas of life as you wish, commenting on how well your reading describes that type and also any ways in which you think the person who completed the questionnaire differs from the profiles or behaviour suggested by your reading.

Assignment 5. Type Interactions

Discuss the known and possible interactions between your own type and the type in Assignment 2, stating how such interactions could be improved if one or both of you knew about psychological type.

Assignment 6. Essay: "How Can Type Be Useful in Your Profession?"

Write an essay of 2,000 words on the above topic, emphasising the practical possibilities of using an appreciation of type in coaching. “Your profession” means the helping profession in which you are working or in which you are training towards a qualification, e.g. counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, life coaching, teaching, nursing, etc. If no suitable profession applied to you and you are taking this unit just out of personal interest, you can substitute the following title:

“How can Type Be Useful in Understanding People Who are Different from Myself?”

(Additional information in the actual unit gives instructions for submitting completed assignments).