Using Freud’s five psychosocial stages we can assume Freud would describe Marty as resulting of being fixated during the anal stage of Freud’s five stages because of his unusual rigidity and punctuality. Mike shows signs of having had problems during his phallic stage due to his lack of conscious. Mike may also surfer from an unrestrained superego‚ while Marty seems to have a proper superego. Mike and Marty seem to be polar opposites as far as personality. While I would score Mike very highly in
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Psychosocial Assessment of Good Will Hunting December 06‚ 2011 Identifying Information Will Hunting is a 20 year-old Caucasian male of Irish decent. He turned 21 before the time he was terminated from therapy. He was always casually dressed in slacks‚ or jeans and t-shirt or short sleeves shirt like most youths or teenagers. Although he had few clothes as evidenced by the fact that he wore the same two or three outfits to all his therapy sessions‚ his clothes were always clean. Referral
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Adolescent Stressors Adolescents today face a myriad of stressors in their lives that can impact who they are and who they will become. Bio-psychosocial stressors appear to be more prevalent in minority adolescents who reside in lower socioeconomic households. Impoverished neighborhoods experience a great deal of financial difficulties‚ crime‚ and single parent homes. Adolescents growing up in these households often have lower grades in school and a lack of self confidence verses their counterparts
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Significance of Psychosocial Competence in Youth Executive Summary Stress is one of the top ten health concerns in adolescence and is getting worse. Adolescents experience many changes in their daily lives‚ however are not sufficiently equipped with skills to help them deal with the increased demands and stress they experience (World Health Organization‚ 1997). Psychosocial competence in youth was researched in order to better understand their abilities to make the best choice as related to mental
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Negative influences have always been a detrimental problem in the development of young childhood in America. These negative influences can very much put many youths at risk. An at-risk youth is a child who is less likely to transition successfully into adulthood. Academic success and job readiness‚ as well as the ability to be financially independent is defined by success. Poverty is a huge factor for children‚ and this puts more children at risk. Minority children are more likely to be living in
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mentally impaired‚ requires a lot of Cynthia’s attention. George attends Oakland Community College with plans on transferring to a four year university in his junior year. Cynthia has a great relationship with both of her children. Cynthia is in the middle class income range grossing $65‚000 a year. She is an African American who owns her home and resides in the city of Detroit. Cynthia attended the University of Detroit and currently has 98 credit hours towards her accounting degree. She is currently
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other points of view‚ understand that everything is not black and white‚ mentally reflect and understand cause and effect of relationships that concerns facts. The "cognitive development reaches its fullest potential" (Cooks‚ 2005‚ p.5-19). 2. List and define each of Erikson’s Psychosocial stages. Erikson’s Psychosocial theory has eight distinct stages: According to Fleming (2004) Erik Erikson (1982) developed the eight human developmental stage. At each stage there is a crisis‚ as follows:
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My Development from Childhood to Adulthood Julie A. Clough PSY 202 James Woodward April 9‚ 2012 Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory proposes that human development is best explained in terms of interaction between individuals and the environments in which they live or have lived (Witt and Mossler‚ 2010‚Adult Development and Life Assessment‚ Section 2.9‚ para 1 ). Bronfenbrenner’s theory consists of microsystem‚ mesosystem‚ exosystem‚ macrosystem and chronosystem
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The fifth stage of Erikson’s Psychosocial theory is the “identity vs. identity confusion” stage. This stage typically occurs in adolescence; individuals strive to answer the question “who am I?”. I didn’t achieve this stage until the end of my high school career. In middle school‚ I was not very popular‚ I was intimidated by those who were. I was a very shy and weird person‚ I tried fitting in and changing myself to be liked and have friends. I succeeded in gaining popularity when I began high school
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classmates. I’m here to talk about childhood. What is childhood? According to science‚ childhood is “the stage before puberty” or‚ to be more specific‚ “the state of a child between infancy and adulthood.” But childhood is so much more than a concrete reality defined by literal terms. It is an abstract concept. If‚ right now‚ I say that I have never ever ever had a Tamagotchi or played Mario Brothers – now‚ I know that you’re all thinking‚ “Wow‚ that girl has no childhood!” And that time when you found
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