Identifying information Cynthia is a divorced 47 year old mother of two sons‚ Stanley age 27 and George age19. Both of her sons live at home with her. Stanley‚ who is trainable 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
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Introduction: Erik Erikson - Biography Erik Erikson is a developmental psychologist who is well-known for his two theories about Stages of Psychosocial development and Identity Crisis. He was born on June 15‚ 1902‚ in Frankfurt‚ Germany. His Jewish mother raised him by herself for a while before getting married to his step father‚ Dr. Theodor Homberger. In fact‚ he never knew about the identity of his real father until he grew up and found out by himself. This early confusing experience created
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Erik Erikson’s has several stages of psychosocial development. 1.Trust vs. Mistrust Is the world safe or unpredictable? We look to our caregivers for safety as infants. When we receive consistent reliable care as infants we develop a sense of trust‚ on the other hand if we receive inconsistent‚ unpredictable and unreliable care than we develop mistrust. 2.Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt In this stage the child is starting to get a little independence by wanting to put his/her own clothes on‚ pick
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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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What is Psychosocial Development? Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development is one of thebest-known theories of personality in psychology. Much like Sigmund Freud‚ Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages‚ Erikson’s theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. One of the main elements of Erikson’s psychosocial stage theory is the development of ego identity. Ego identity is the conscious sense
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Running head: PSYCHOSOCIAL STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT PAPER Psychosocial Stage of Development Paper Tristam Craig PSY 504 Oct 03‚ 2010 Elisa Doebler-Irvine Psychosocial Stage of Development Paper The theory of Erik Erikson is that the early childhood years are very important stages of the development of the personality of an individual. This theory followed many of the principals of theories developed by Sigmund Freud‚ in relation to the id‚ ego and superego and the theory of sexuality
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Renowned psychologist Erik Erikson is best known for his theory of psychosocial stages of personality development. Unlike Freud‚ Erikson’s theory spans a person’s entire lifespan‚ from childhood to old age. One of the main elements of Erikson’s psychosocial stage theory is the development of ego identity (Cherry‚ 2013). Ego Identity is the conscious sense of self that we develop through social interaction (Cherry‚ 2013). Erikson believed that our ego identity is constantly changing due to new
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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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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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The psychosocial theory provides a theoretical structure that highlights the constant assimilation and communication of individual competencies with resources‚ difficulties‚ and culture. Development is seen as a product of genetic‚ social‚ maturational‚ and autonomous dynamics. For this assignment‚ I am analyzing personal development using Erickson ’s psychosocial theory of development. Erickson believed that development follows the epigenetic principle‚ that anything that grows has a ground plan
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