Secure Attachment Theory
In the infants and toddlers age group, Erik Erikson has eight stages of life thatindividuals go through during their stages of development. In the infant and toddler age group, I think that trust versus mistrust and autonomy versus shame, doubt. Trust versus mistrust is the first stage that infants will go through according to Erik Erikson’s theory. Infants will go through this stage when they are just 0-1 years old. The developmental task that infants are attempting to overcome is to develop trust in the caregiver. It’s important that the parents create a secure type of attachment with their infant. It is essential that the infant and the parents establish a bond at an early age to ensure that the infant will always feel safe and secure.
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There’s four different types of attachment with secure attachment usually meaning the “best” type of attachment the child could have. In secure attachment, the child will get sad when the parent leaves, but it happy when the parent returns. Anxious-avoidant children are children who don’t care when their parents leave and don’t notice when they return either. Anxious-resistant children are sad when their parent leaves and is hard for them to reconnect with their parent when they return. Disorganized/disoriented children are individuals who may go up to their parent, but also may not go up to their …show more content…
Industry versus inferiority (ages 7-12 years old) children are striving to master new skills. They want to be able to perform complicated task and then complete another difficult task. The children in this stage strive for their parent’s encouragement. Freud’s psychosexual stages of development, pre-teens are in latency. This means that the pre-teens have sexual impulses become dormant during early elementary.
Adolescents are defined in Erikson’s 8 stages of development who are ages 12 to 18 years old and their basic conflict is industry versus inferiority. Teens need to establish a feeling of self and personal identity. Accomplishments leads to an ability to push yourself, while failure leads to role confusion and a feeling of low self-esteem. Adolescents have more anxiety and nervousness at school, however, more positive feelings at home with family members, and negative feelings related to conflicts with parents and friends. Adolescents are developing a sense of identity while in this developmental
There’s four different types of attachment with secure attachment usually meaning the “best” type of attachment the child could have. In secure attachment, the child will get sad when the parent leaves, but it happy when the parent returns. Anxious-avoidant children are children who don’t care when their parents leave and don’t notice when they return either. Anxious-resistant children are sad when their parent leaves and is hard for them to reconnect with their parent when they return. Disorganized/disoriented children are individuals who may go up to their parent, but also may not go up to their …show more content…
Industry versus inferiority (ages 7-12 years old) children are striving to master new skills. They want to be able to perform complicated task and then complete another difficult task. The children in this stage strive for their parent’s encouragement. Freud’s psychosexual stages of development, pre-teens are in latency. This means that the pre-teens have sexual impulses become dormant during early elementary.
Adolescents are defined in Erikson’s 8 stages of development who are ages 12 to 18 years old and their basic conflict is industry versus inferiority. Teens need to establish a feeling of self and personal identity. Accomplishments leads to an ability to push yourself, while failure leads to role confusion and a feeling of low self-esteem. Adolescents have more anxiety and nervousness at school, however, more positive feelings at home with family members, and negative feelings related to conflicts with parents and friends. Adolescents are developing a sense of identity while in this developmental