Essay On Psychosocial Theory

The psychosocial theory is a theory that describe eight stages of social and emotional development that covers the human life span. The psychosocial theory was discover by a man name Erik Erikson and he believe that our behaviors are formed as we grow up. I learn from Erik Erikson theory is that as we grow up our basic attitudes are form into eight stages as we grow up. I also learned that if we succeed in our stages as we grow up we are most likely to succeed to the next which will help us be able to return to earlier stages and be able to resolve conflicts. The information I receive from reading about Erik theory is that we can understand the child when they’re in the process of becoming an individual which will help me to understand and …show more content…
Isolation. Stage six it talks about people exploring personal relationship. He believe that people who develop a close relationship with people are secure about themselves which will help them succeed in this stages. One way they could succeed in this stages is having a strong personal identity. The challenge to this is that if you don’t have good sense of self that it can affect you by not being able to committed to relationship which will cause depression. The solution to this stage is love.
The seventh stage involves the adulthood which focuses on career and family. Stage seven is called Generativity vs. Stagnation. In order for adulthood to achieve this stage is being active in our community and those who can’t end up feel disconnected from the world. The solution to this stage is being able to accomplish your goals and seeing your family grow.
The last stage is Integrity vs. Despair come into place which is where it hits old age. At the end the you will be able to look back to your events and determine if they were happy and the unhappy was who didn’t succeed in this stages the begin to feel despair and think that their life was just a waste of time. If you succeeded in this stage you felt a sense of