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Date:
4/29/11
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Selected Film:
Steel Magnolias
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Students are expected to adhere to standards of scholarly writing. Answer the questions in your own words, in complete sentences, and in appropriate paragraphs.
Use Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Man to describe the stage of development experienced by your selected character from the film. Your response should consist of a minimum of 75 words. Be sure to include proper citations when referencing information from outside sources.
In the movie, Steel Magnolias, the character I chose was Shelby, she is a spontaneous selfless person, and always putting others needs before her own. She is in the young adulthood stage of Erickson’s eight stages of development. The task Shelby was working on was intimacy versus isolation. She was deeply in love with Jackson, a successful Louisiana lawyer. Shelby is in gauged to be married, but is trying to talk Jackson out of marrying her because her physician recommended that she not get pregnant. Shelby stated, “I’m afraid Jackson is throwing away his chance to have babies”
(Berman, Erb, Kozier, & Snyder 2004).
Describe three challenges or barriers to the positive progression of your client’s psycho-social development. Your response should consist of a minimum of 100 words. Be sure to include proper citations when referencing information from outside sources. In the movie, Shelby encountered some challenges hat hindered her psycho-social development. The first challenge she encountered was when her physician told her she should not have children of her own, due to her diabetes. This made her feel incomplete as a woman. The first person she thought about was her fiancée Jackson. Shelby loved him so much, and wanted him to be happy, that she did not want him to give up