Glossary I

Deutsch: Individuum
An individual is a person or a specific object. Individuality (or selfhood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals.

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Individual Capacity refers to the potential for acquiring skills and competencies through such means as self -study, on-the-job training, mentoring, coaching, and professional development activities.

Individual counseling in the psychology context is a therapeutic process where a single client works one-on-one with a mental health professional, such as a Psychologist, psychiatrist, or licensed counselor, in a safe and confidential environment. The primary goal of individual counseling is to help the client explore their feelings, beliefs, behaviors, and work through challenging or influential memories. It aims to identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work towards desired change.

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Individual differences refer to the aspects of people's personalities that make them different from other people; differences in patterns of intellectual aptitudes among people of a given age.

Individual dominance is when one member of a group dominates the group.

Individual Education Program (IEP) refers to a special education plan developed for a pupil after extensive assessment of the pupil's special educational needs.

Individual good–collective bad trap is when a destructive behavior by one person is of little consequence but has disastrous results when repeated by many.

Individual identity refers to the commitment to a personal integration of values, goals, and abilities that occurs as personal choices are made in response to anticipated or actual environmental demands at the end of adolescence.