Erik Erikson

Identity Development in different life stages Abstract: This article is going to discuss the identity development the lifetime. Based on the Erik Erikson’s theory (1950), the psychosocial development has eight stages including infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, young adult, adult hood and maturity. There are psychosocial crisis in each stage, which are trust and mistrust, autonomy and shame, initiative and guilt, industry and inferiority, ego identity and role…

Introduction In order to explain psychological and social development Erik Erikson developed the Erikson theory which includes eight stages of psychosocial development. Each of these stages involves a crisis for whoever is developing (Swartz, de la Rey, Duncan & Townsend, 2011). This essay, however, will only focus on the fifth stage of psychosocial development. The fifth stage it is called “Identity vs Confusion” and is the stage which adolescents go through (Swartz et al., 2011). Through the…

infant and child development 1. Solid attachment bonds produce positive developmental outcomes 2. Insecure or disorganized attachments can produce detrimental developmental outcomes as well as infant behavioral issues III. Attachment Theories A. Erik Erikson 1. Developmental Stage theory 2. Must resolve key conflicts within each developmental stage 3. Postnatal stage of psychosocial developmental is basic trust versus mistrust 4. Goal for a healthy psychosocial development is for the baby to…

existing mental structures by accommodating to these structures.” The second theory would be Erik Erikson, his theory is about psychosocial development, “Which emphasizes…

A commonly held assumption is that children are bound to be very similar to their parents. While there is some truth in this, scientific research shows that genetic considerations do not entirely determine outcomes for individual development. From week 4 all the way to week 6 we have been reading different articles in regards to the different levels of contributions and influences that nature and nurturing have on individual development. Comprehensive clinical studies show that adverse…

Psychologist Erik Erikson described that as we go through life we transitions through eight different stages and face a new crisis as we go through each stage (McLeod, 2008a). Each stage, if completed successfully, helps a person develop a healthy personality and live a successful life (McLeod, 2008a).Erikson divides the life into eight stages of development. The first stage begins during infancy and is know as the stage of Trust Vs. Mistrust (Lynn, Lilienfeld, & Woolf, 2009, p. 291). In the…

Renowned Psychologist, Erik Erikson has 8 stages of psychological stages which are: Trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity v. despair. These stages cover the life span from birth to death. People who successfully go through each conflict gain a new understanding of themselves and are psychologically successful. On the other hand, people have fail…

Erik Erikson articulates in his comprehensive psychoanalytic theory, the psychosocial developmental human stages. Adolescents’ psychosocial crisis is characterized by two conflicting forces, identity and confusion. During this stage, adolescents are transitioning…

Erik Erikson developed eight crises that shape identity. The instructor can use the knowledge of these crises and how the student solves them to better understand the psychosocial development of the student. Industry versus Inferiority is a crisis that the…

Theoretical Theory Erikson’s psychosocial theory will be the basis for my interventions strategy. According to Erik Erikson, rather than developing in psychosexual stages like Freud suggested, people develop through psychosocial stages. Development is constantly occurring throughout life and early and later experiences are equally important. People have a desire to interact with others socially. In each stage there is a crisis that needs to be resolved, the more triumph the healthier the…