Comparing Erikson's Psychosocial Development

Lifespan developments go back many decades that covers a broad spectrum. Lifespan development is a method to understand the human growth through out the lifetime, which covers physical, cognitive, personality and social development. Out of the six human growth and development theories psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, contextual, and evolutionary two that stand out would be Erikson’s Psychosocial theory and Piaget theory. Erikson’s psychosocial theory is under the psychodynamic that began with Sigmund Freud focusing on the inner person. Erikson went in on more details than Freud theory by expanding an eight-stage theory of psychosocial development throughout a lifespan starting at birth to late adulthood unlike Freud’s. Erikson

Starting at childhood then adolescence to adulthood the conjunctive stage. With adulthood being last an individual will have an understanding of their values, views, and beliefs. The last stage according to Feldman (2014), “ individuals develop a broad, inclusive view of religion and all humanity” (p.389). Spirituality can be known as a relationship or attachment to God, a higher power, or religion. A good article that goes in detail is “Using Erikson’s Development Theory to Understand and Nurture Spiritual Development in Christians” it uses Erikson stages to explain on how spiritual development may occur with individual at their beginning stages of their spiritual journey. Erikson model can be used to explore the spiritual development and what it may look like during each stage (Tale & Parker, 2007, p. 219). In the Bible there are many verses explaining spiritual growth two that stands out is 1 Peter 2:2 and 1 Corinthians 13:11. Both verses explain as a child we grow and want to know more of the word then as we grow we put away the childish things away, which explains the physical, emotional and social aspects of