Pediatric Growth And Development Assessment

Characteristics of personality through Freudian stages are oral, anal, phallic latency and genital. Oral stage is driven to satisfy ones needs of hunger and thirst. As personality begins to flourish individuals fixated within the oral stage remain corrupted with issues of dependency, attachment, and substance abuse in some cases. Anal stage is just that, defecation. Many children learn self-control readily while others over learn meaning they find pleasure in holding their bowels to have some sense of control. While some attempt to regulate in order to sustain freedom of action. Phallic stage is where sexual energy is fixated on the genitals. One begins analyzing themselves and masturbation and gender identity begins being explored.

Child physical, communication and intellectual, social, emotional and behavioural development from birth to 19 years.

In 1905 Freud proposed that psychological development in childhood takes place in a series of fixed stages. These stages were dived into 5 parts; Freud said personality will be developed by the time one is a teenager. They are called psychosexual stages because each stage represents the fixation of libido known as sexual drives or instincts on a different area of the body. Fixation is part of our sexuality left behind at an earlier sage of psychosexual development.

However Erikson’s psychosocial personality theory emphasizes more on emotional polarity or conflict that a child encounters (McLeod, 2017). Within Erikson’s theory there are eight stages, each stage developing on top of another in an orderly fashion. The first four stages of Erikson’s theory closely resembles Freud’s personality theory, while the last four is a subdivided version of Freud’s genital stage (Engler, 2013). Each stage involved a life crisis, if this life crisis was not fixed Freud believed that it caused an unhealthy personality and self-worth. In turn, causing one to have be less motivated to complete the further stages (McLeod,

Social/Cultural: In this stage the child develop a sense of self and a sense of belonging to a family. They begin interacting with other children and they also play in stages (playing alone, playing near others but not really playing with them, not wanting to share, playing and sharing, and playing with a purpose). This stage is also were the child also learn to respect the rights and feelings of others.

The film Precious is an emotional movie that deals with the unfortunate realities of everyday life for some individuals. The film that stares Gabourey Sidibe who plays the main character Clarice “Precious” Jones is based out of Harlem in the year of 1987. Precious is a sixteen year-old obese and uneducated teenager whom has had to grow up in a severely dysfunctional family environment. Her mother verbally and physically abuses her, often times using her as a personal servant. Her father has been sexually abusing her since childhood, and has impregnated her twice. Precious has lived with the ugly truth that because of her weight, skin color, and sexual abuse, she does not fit in

Freud believed during this stage all needs are satisfied orally or through the mouth; for example, eating and drinking. The anal stage takes place during the second year of life. During this stage the battle between control and letting go begins. The phallic stage takes place during the third and fifth years of life. During this stage a child develops a fixation with the genitals. Freud’s psychosexual stages focus on developmental changes in the first 5 years of life and transformation of the id.

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Emotional development is effected by neglect, separation, lack of love (family) and self harm. Social development is effected by lack of self esteem and secondary socialisation.

He asserted that if these psychosexual stages are completed successfully, result is a healthy personality. However, Freud identified that if the psychosexual stages of development were in any way interrupted at a certain time, then this would cause problems in later life; he believed that it was possible to link the psychosexual stages to adult neurosis. If certain issues are not resolved at the appropriate stage, fixation can occur. A fixation is a persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage. Until this conflict is resolved, the individual will remain "stuck" in this stage; the term "psychosexual infantilism," refers to those who become fixated in this way and fail to mature through the psychosexual stages into heterosexuality. For example, a person who is fixated at the oral stage may be over-dependent on others and may seek oral stimulation through smoking, drinking, or eating.

The psychosexual stages have three main parts. Each of Freud's five stages has a physical focal point where the child's energy is strongest and where their pleasure is obtained. The stages also have a psychological theme and an adult character type.

Freud created five stages of psychosexual development that includes the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital phases. The oral stage begins at birth and lasts until approximately age one. Throughout the first phase, Freud believed that, the sex instinct was centered on the mouth. Often infants derive pleasure from oral activities such as chewing, sucking, biting, or feeding activities. Moreover, Freud thought that if a child was weaned off the mother’s breast too early their adult personality characteristics might crave close contact and become an overly dependent spouse

Freud’s adult growth and development theory: Jane falls into genital on psychosexual of Freud’s theory. She is a 24 years old young adult who has reached puberty stage. She enjoys having good time by engaging

Freud identified five stages of psychosexual development, namely: The oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage and genital stage.

The fourth developmental task is occupation. This specific task will correlate specifically to women living in poverty trying to establish a career identity. Young adults are stuck in two categories in the career stage known as exploration and establishment.