Erikson's Lifespan Development

While Erikson incorporated many of Freud’s theory, Erikson was interested in how social contact and associations played a role in the development and growth of human beings. A second theory that applies is Micro, Mezzo and Macro levels of conceptualization. Each member of the family can be helped by seeing to their spirituality, impulse control, work/school, ethnic identity, health, and emotional development. Life Span Perspectives Age/Developmental stage.

Middle Adulthood During this stage in life, Erikson describes individuals in the generativity vs. stagnation stage (Capp, 2004). Individuals between the ages 40 to 65 have generally married, have a career and have their own families. Erikson refers to generativity as a concern of the next generation by guiding and establishing them.

To overcome other weaknesses, we develop skills in other areas in a process Adler named Compensation. Another important development in the Psychodynamic Approach was by Erik Erikson with the Eight Psychosocial Stages of Development. Like Freud and Alder, Erikson focused on early childhood and teenage development. These developments helped bring the Psychodynamic Approach to where it is today. The peak of the psychodynamic approach was long ago in the early 1900’s and began to lose support as more empirical approaches surfaced.

The theory on life stages relates well to my situation as it works through all the stages in life that we should be at and when we should achieve these by. Erikson’s theory works well as I have looked into five stages of the user’s life from infancy to older adulthood. While looking into this I realized that she is meeting the stages but not when they should be getting meet. For each stage it is a build onto the previous stage and cannot meet one stage without the one before. Erikson believes that a person’s personality does develop in a series of stages the theory described the impacts of social experiences throughout the whole lifespan.

Like Freud, Erikson was talking about competence of human, conflict and dialog of opposing in his writings. As cited in Hoare (2005, p.20) because of the absence of his father, Erikson (1975) thought Freud as his mythical father. He agreed that super-ego develops by modeling the super-egos of the parents. Also, Erikson believed that psychoanalysis helps to reveal the truths about unconscious. However, after a while Erikson (1975) started to see that Freud is only concentrated on beginnings and instincts (as cited in Hoare, 2005, p.20).

After an examination of Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson’s theories at first sight not much is alike, since the stages both differ, but digging deeper in Erikson's and Levinson’s theories have similar ideas in social development; after all, these two studies differ in the outcome. Erik erikson's theories have a greater underlining on child-adolescent development, he believes that early development of a child is the foundation and is the greatest impact on a person's identity and personality later on in life. Erikson presents the stages from childhood to adulthood, but in his theory the only significant development is during childhood, which is the problem, since an individual goes through life experiences throughout life they may have a great impact as an adult too. On the other hand Daniel Levinson’s theory signifies changes throughout all of life's experiences, from childhood to adulthood and continuing. Levinson’s theory believes that we adapt ad we let go of certain things as we move on in life and move from one stage to another.

For example, one of the most influential psychological theorist, Erik Erikson had come up with the theory of personality development. It consists of eight stages of development starting with infancy and ending with late adulthood. Focusing on the second stage of autonomy versus shame and doubt; it is believed that the importance of the caregivers is seen and that they should provide guided opportunity for a child to explore their world, which then a sense of autonomy is developed where the psychological strength of self-control and willpower is gained . This shows that without the

Eriksons model of development focuses on key challenges that the person needs to meet and overcome in the course of their life. It views them in terms of the significant social relationships they take place within and what the favourable outcomes are of each challenge. The staging according to age/significant social relationship removes the sexualized language of Freud while still recognizing formative periods of development early on. The first three stages follow closely those of Freud but do so without the same limiting to social gender roles. Eriksons viewing of development in terms of psycho-social crisis’ also takes on board Jungs concern for the need of a deeper/meaningful view of human development.

Introduction In this assignment, I will be focusing on Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development. There are eight stages in which only the fifth stage ”identity versus role confusion” will be discussed. Aspects such as identity crises, exploration of autonomy whilst developing a sense of self, factors that may contribute to identity formation as well as the successful/unsuccessful resolution of this particular stage will be discussed thoroughly. James Marcia’s identity statuses will be highlighted.

Introduction This essay is based on the comparison of psychosexual theories of Sigmund Freud and psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson. In this essay, similarities and the differences between these two theories are explained and outlined. The two famous theories of development are Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory and Erik

Erikson proposed various stages of psychological development that progresses as life move from one stage to another from infancy till reaching state of late adulthood. The generativity versus stagnation stage is linked with middle age adulthood while ego integrity versus despair stage is linked with late adulthood explained for person. Each stage has its own positive and negative output that influence individual thought process and approach towards society. There are various physical and cognitive changes that occur in late adulthood and that eventually lead to death or dying process. The approach towards life to manage integrity or despair defines the way death is accepted by individual or further outcome is achieved gradually in the process.

Erikson has discussed human is development throughout his stages. Humans undergo many changes such as behavioral, biological, and cognitive. In each stage kids go through development stages to help them create their personalities and actually know the person they are growing up to be. These stages go into details with learning new things whether we are ready for it or not. Each stage explains the positive and negative attitude for each individual; however we attend to learn from every stage to become the person we are today.

These three developmental theories contribute to the understanding of Jack’s abilities and can be helpful in the planning of interventions to prevent a disruption in Jack’s continued growth and development. However, there are also limitations to be considered. For example; Erikson’s strength is the application from infancy to late adulthood but his theories were directed more for male individuals over females and were unable to be strictly tested. Criticism for Piaget is made for the lack of complete staging or for lack of consideration to cultural applications, especially when the main subjects of his study were his own children.

My name is Antonique Whyte. Between the age of 7—13 I had problems with my cognitive thinking because I was diagnosed with low self esteem because I thought I was very unattractive, was displeased with my skin tone which I thought I was too black and less prettier than my classmates. According to “Erikson stages of development”1963, at stage 4 School Age child: 6—12 yrs, Industry vs. Infidelity—competence. This is also a very social stage of development and if we experience and unresolved feelings of inadequacy and inferiority among our peers, we can have serious problems in low self—esteem and competence.

I was truly inspired by our last class; the act of writing on paper who I am really got me thinking and reflecting. And in true inspiration fashion, I ran to discuss this topic with my closest friends. One of which answered with something that I believe is a quote from Erikson. My friend responded “we are what we love” (J. Williams, personal communication, October 13, 2016). At first I thought that response was odd and to me it didn’t make much sense.