Summary Of Erikson's Theory Of Psychosocial Development

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Teen behavior can be unpredictable and yet impulsive at times. This is a time in the process where they are finding a sense of personal identity. Influences from an adolescence parent, outside of the family, and friends will have an impact on the way they feel about themselves, but during this time these factors become important. For example, a friend, what’s a culturally popular, trend in society which all helps in the formation and shaping someone’s identity.

Erik H. Erikson was a psychologist who was very important in psychology and had theories and impact about child development. In this theory of psychosocial development, consisted of eight identifiable stages, of these stages reaching the age of eighteen years and three additional stages …show more content…

In reading the case study on Louisa, she is fourteen-years-old. According to the Identity versus confusion theory from Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, this is the fifth stage of ego.

In this theory, Erikson believed that throughout an individual’s lifespan they progress in a series of stages and transition out with self-identity if proper encouragement and reinforcement are received (McLeod,2013). The adolescence who still are not sure of who they are during the transition will have trouble with self-identity and might develop what Erikson referred to as role confusion. I feel the way Louisa is communicating she may experience role confusion.

The relative importance of parental and peer factors in adolescence plays a role in psychosocial development in adolescence. All the different changes going on with Louisa, between going through changes with puberty and the different pressures on her to smoke marijuana and her family issues. This could be a hard and confusing time for Louisa along with the constant transformation in the developmental …show more content…

I am hoping that developing this program will help adolescence and the many challenges that they face. With knowledge and different resources that will be provided in this program, I am certain that this program will have a positive outcome. Not only will adolescence but their parents will benefit from the program.

References

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2. Erikson, E. H. (Ed.). (1963). Youth: Change and challenge. Basic Books.

3. Five Out of the Box Techniques for Encouraging Teenagers ... (n.d.). Retrieved January 28, 2018, from https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/vistas/encouraging-teenagers.pdf?sfvrsn=4

4. Marijuana Facts for Teens - National Institute on Drug Abuse. (n.d.). Retrieved January 30, 2018, from https://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/teens_brochure_2013.pdf

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