The 8 stages of
psychosocial development:
1.
Infancy: (0-1
year)
A
child needs physical and emotional needs such as to be loved, cleaned, and hugged.
Crisis: trust vs. mistrust, we would have crisis if
things not go in the right ways. For example, if the child cry and no body come
to fulfill his needs so he builds mistrust.
Virtue:
hope, if he had a lot of mistrust so he had no hope.
2.
Early childhood: (1-3 years)
Depend
and decide by themselves, parents role is to only direct them.
Crisis:
autonomy vs. shame and doubt, if the child feels he doesn’t had autonomy; he
will develop shame and doubt.
Virtue:
will
3.
Preschool age: (3-6 years)
The child
starts to take initiative to surprise us.
Crisis:
initiative vs. guilt, if the teacher or the parents are not good, the child
develop the guilt and stop taking initiative. So we should encourage them take
initiative but in a balance way.
Virtue:
purpose.
4.
School age: (6-12 years)
They
do things, discover, create, and learn skills.
Crisis:
industry vs. inferiority, if the parents don’t allow the children to do things,
so they feel inferior and not able to do any things.
Virtue:
competence, I am important, and I can do this.
5.
Adolescence: (12-18 years)
A transition between childhood and adulthood
and the start asking question “who I am?” “What’s the goal of life?”
Crisis:
identify vs. confusion.
Virtue:
fidelity.
6.
Young adulthood:
People
think in marriage.
Crisis:
intimacy vs. isolation.
Virtue:
love, if someone is not able to find intimacy he feels isolated and not able to
love and be loved.
7.
Middle age:
People
start to evaluate their life and what they can do for the next generation.
Crisis:
generativity vs. stagnation.
Virtue:
care.
8.
Later life:
They
look back, evaluate their lives, what did I do in this life? Did I take the
right decision?
Crisis: integrity
vs. despair.
Virtue: wisdom,
if they satisfied with their lives.
Great summary of Ericson's stages. Understanding what characterizes each stage gives us hints and clues on how to deal with people who pass the following stages.
ReplyDeleteI was just reading those :P and well that's a good revision. Thanks our beloved Carine
ReplyDeleteThanks Carine, this summary helps us to identify the problems that might happen at different stage and to know how to deal with person at each stage.
ReplyDeleteI guess the Counseling course has such a great influence! These are pieces of information that we shouldn't be missing in every single stage of our lives. We can always benefit from them later on in our classroom, with our kids, even in our further studies Inshallah. :)
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