Development of Theories

Question 1

What is 8 stages of life?

Answer 1

• Erik Erikson
• Stage by stage
• 8 stages that are based on social and biological clock.
• failure to progress lead to difficulty in the future.

Question 2

What is Theory of Ego development?

Answer 2

• Jane Loevinger
• 10 stages to form the Ego (understanding of self and self reliate).
• Stages are determined by psychological clock and progression is decieded by this too.
• This is a life long goal.
• People need a fully developed ego to have intamate relationships

Question 3

What is The Family cycle?

Answer 3

• Carter & McGoldrick
• The development of Parent and childern seperating by gaining emotional responsibility
• Young adult development:
  1. Seperate from family.
  2. Developing intimate relationships
  3. Career

Question 4

What is Theory of the Season of Life?

Answer 4

• Daniel Levison
• Adulthood developed is from 17-40s.’
• Particatpating in adult world and seperating from parents by entering the adult world and completing these steps:
  1. Forming a dream
  2. Forming mentor relationship
  3. Forming an occupation
  4. Forming love relationship, marriage, and family

Question 5

What is Interpretation of development?

Answer 5

• Klaus Riegl
• Adulthood is not predicatable stages but as a person adjust in response to change they grow.
• affected by biological and social clock

Changing Factors
1. Emotional maturity
2. Biological (physical and sexual)
3. Social (how Society defines us)
4. Enviourment (Physcial, economic, and political enviroment you live in)

Question 6

What is Theory of Psychological Distress?

Answer 6

• Leonard Pearling
• A lifetime of continuos change in which individuals experience stability and stress.

The 4 elements that determine the path lives take:
1. Individual Characteristics
2. Coping skills
3. Social network
4. Social and biological clock