Bronfenbrenner's Psychosocial Theory Essay

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“She doesn't have nurse's training, Lars!
Because she's not a person. She's a big plastic thing!

That's amazing.
Did you hear that Gus?
Bianca just said that God made her to help people.”

Using concepts and ideas in Psychosocial Theory of Erik H Erikson & Bio-Ecological Theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner, this film review will explore
• distinct characteristics displayed in Lars
• incidents and events that builts up and eventually
• how the resolution is being attained.

Erik Erikson Psychosocial Theory – 8 Stages
Erikson (1950, 1959, 1963, 1968a, 1968b, 1978, 1980) introduced 8 psychosocial stages of development which a child needs to pass through in order to successfully progress to the stage next of development and challenges. As illustrated below, in order to be comfortable at the stage of a “Young Adult”; an individual will need to successfully experience the various stages of growing up from Stage 1of Infancy to Stage 5 of
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Without the basic needs of love and affection, a child like Lars he will experience fear and mistrust of his surroundings. Thus it explains why he is often fearful to communicate and would rather chose to sit at honme alone in the dark, instead of having a meal with his family, being out with his colleagues or even church …show more content…
Bronfenbrenner proposed that an individual’s development is influenced by the social-culture environment where different elements of systems come together to interact with one another.

The Microsystem of Lars childhood, with the absent of care and concern from his immediate family members revealed his difficulties in relating to the various ecological systems around him during his young adulthood. Besides Gus and Karin,

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