Erikson's Psychosocial Theory

“The child withdraws to a dark hole disconnected from the rest of the world, or watches people with fear and hatred at a far distance, with an internal chaos taking charge of the child’s life.” (Shi, 2014) If a child has been a victim of neglect or abuse, they will have a hard time trusting others. It severely affects them and their way of viewing the world. They get disconnected and stay away from others. They start to resent others, for that’s all they’ve

People may regularly hear statements that one’s childhood highly affects the psychological mind. In addition, many may believe that the damaging effects of child abuse are outgrown after childhood. Contrary to that statement, “the consequence is that many adults who were abused during childhood

Also their criminal activity, abuse victims might also have very difficult time in nourishing and fulfilling health relationships. When the children develop into young adults, the children enter Erikson’s sixth stage in an attempt to avoid isolation they seek to find intimacy. Studies show that young adults who have been abuse have a very hard time finding and maintaining a healthy relationships. Sometimes the child who has been abused often have a young older relationship. They find someone that is older than them probably close to their abusers age. They sometimes think that the only healthy relationship that they could have it to have an older person who tells them that they love them. Sometimes not all the time, those who have been sexually abused and choose to hunt for intimate relationships often face many complications within their psychological stage as their history of abuse impacts the person’s motivation for a good partner. Some studies show that some young adults who were abused in their childhood try to stray away from finding relationships because they believe that no one will love them like their abuser. Also they might not want to get into relationships because they don’t want to be hurt like they were when they were a child. Women, who desire a relationship yet face trouble efforts in lasting and sustaining partnerships, are likely to have many short-term sexual relationships (Davis & Petretic-Jackson, 2000). Short-term sexual relationships stem from the abused child’s unsettled developmental stage of intimacy and their desire to find love. The constant desire to fill the needs of intimacy coupled with short-term sexual relationships often correlates with higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases within the abused community (Heiman & Heard-Davison, 2004). It’s sad that because of what someone did to them when they were a child. That when they become young adults they have sex and don’t really

Janice has led a full life; she has had many different kinds of experiences and had to fill many roles. In order to better understand how the current status of Janice would be the disengagement theory. There have been many events that have impact Janice’s ability to be involved in the community around her. Some of the events that have caused this would be: her first marriage, depression, her physical health and the deaths of her family members. Using theories Of Erikson’s theory of the stages of development, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and the strengths perspective. The impact of these events on Janice’s life can be seen. Along with looking at events that have had an impact in Jancie’s life, there have also been relationships that played

An abusive household is not conducive for a growing child. These children can see and experience things that they should never have to go through. The context of the abusive situation is important to how the child copes and grows up. The three most common means of coping used by those who experience child abuse are dissociation, fragmentation, and pathological regulation of emotions (Herman, 1992).

Nowadays, child maltreatment becomes serious problem, which could not only leads to a terrible social phenomenon, but also causes a huge impact on the mental development of children and adolescents in America (Underwood & Rosen, 2013). Child Maltreatment, also called child abuse and neglect, has four identified categories, which are physical abuse, sexual abuse psychological or emotional maltreatment, and neglect, respectively (Trickett et al. , 2011). These four categories of child maltreatment could have a prolonged adverse effect in childhood and even in adolescence (Trickett et al. , 2011).

Kevin is nine years old and he was born in America. His father, Qiang, took him to private tutorial center and helped him finish his homework under teacher’s guide because Qiang didn’t understand in English. At the beginning, Kevin was looking around ceaselessly while the teacher taught him. After his father strictly said, “pay attention to the teacher.” he stopped looking around. Later, his father left me to look at him and he went to the restaurant. When Kevin found his father disappeared, he stopped working on his homework and played with his pencil while other children kept doing their homework. Even though the teacher persuaded him to work on his homework, he was not listening to the teacher’s advice ,and he twitched his mouth. When Qiang came back and found Kevin wasn’t focus on his homework, he criticized Kevin in front of his classmates. Kevin continuous worked on his homework silently. Finally, he finished his homework and he left the tutorial center with his head down.

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” (Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It") In this paper, I will be discussing what child abuse means and how it can cause problems throughout their adolescent and adult years. Childhood abuse and neglect can cause psychological problems, health problems, and can create difficulties in socializing with others that can cause problems during their adolescent years.

Studies over forty years old have shown the effects of this abuse in children who were institutionalized and emotionally neglected, as well as studies on young mothers with little knowledge of child development. In 1975, a study was conducted by Dr. Byron Egeland to examine families who were considered “at risk for poor quality care” for their children. It mostly included families who were under conditions such as drug abuse, alcohol abuse, prostitution, or domestic violence. They found that children who were born into psychologically abusive or neglectful families, “tend to be more withdrawn and highly dependent and to suffer the most severe decline in mental and behavioral development as they get older” (Brody) compared to children who had physically abusive families. Dr. Egeland, along with his colleagues, also stressed the importance of the fact that intervention, “‘must start very early, before the mother has established a pattern of interaction with the child and the child becomes part of that pattern’” (Brody), due to the fact that even when young, children can become seriously affected by psychological abuse.

I think, over the period including the initial 12 months to a year and a half of my life, I could compare to the first stage of Erikson's psychosocial stages. My mom, amid this time, provided me with proper arrangements of nourishment, warmth, and the solace of physical closeness. This enabled me to comprehend and acknowledge that other things and individuals exist even when I couldn't see them. This was a noteworthy venturing stone where the establishment for trust ended up plainly vital. In the next part time of my life, from around year and a half to 3 years old, I could resolve the second of Erikson's psychosocial stages satisfactorily. It was around this time I started to accept vital obligations for my own particular self-mind like sustain myself,

Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial theory that identifies a series of eight stages, in which a healthy individual should pass through. The individual must overcome or resolve successfully at each of the stages to adjust well to the environment. This paper will focus on the Erikson’s stage “ego integrity versus despair,” which is where most geriatric clients are. Erikson believed most patients who entered the stage of “ego integrity versus despair” fall into despair and are dissatisfied with life, often leading to depression and hopelessness. Fortunately, the client I am about to discuss made it to the integrity portion of his life. I will discuss the factors that promoted his journey to integrity, and how I altered my nursing care to better

Neglect and abuse are extremely detrimental to the early stages of development for any child. Essentially, most parents do not realize the types of neglect they can impose on their children. A child’s invalidating experiences can have profound effects in their adulthood. Informing parents and preventing child abuse through programs and guidance can help millions of children around the world escape neglect and multiple types of abuse.

Laura’s behavior is indicative of role confusion, as discussed by Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development because she is trying to figure out her place in the world. She is having trouble deciding if she wants to follow her parents’ middle-class lifestyle, or continue to party with her friends, and even develop a “career” in prostitution.

Most of our society are surprised when they are informed about how the negative impact that the cases of neglected children have in these individuals’ life. Many of them are at the same range of those with physical, mental and sexual abuse. Negligence is the most common form of child treatment. 30 children out of 100 are affected in the U.S Examples of the risks that neglected children face are substance abuse, homelessness, family breakup, chronic poverty and many others. When these children face chronic situations it becomes more difficult to identify as specific incidents. The emotional development that most neglected preschoolers demonstrate are problems with their persona, coping and regulating their emotions. Children negligence increased

While child abuse can have extreme adverse effect on the developmental stage of a child, its impact can manifest in the long run throughout the adult years. Most often it has been seen that parents who indulge in abusing their children do not react positively to treatments, and once such abusing becomes an established pattern of parenting, things become difficult to control (Geeraert et al., 2004). Child abuse in the forms of physical or sexual abuse, and neglect can be the result of combination of multiple factors that can affect the relationship at the root between the child and its parents, environment and peers. The impact on the child can be long term and its severity depends upon the perpetrator’s gender, intensity of the abuse, and the age of the child at the time of