Erikson's Development Case Study

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The preschool period is from ages four to six and with Erikson development stage it is initiative vs. guilt. This stage is where children want to do more things like adults that can go overboard to get the child in trouble or not to succeed causing them to feel guilty (Feldman, 2014). This stage is where you hear children say a lot “let me do it” because the want to become independent and learn. This is also where a child starts to understand that there are boundaries and responsibilities and if they go beyond and push the boundaries the child can feel the consequences (Muller, 2010). Also in this age group children are starting to learn number, the alphabet, and their vocabulary is starting to expand. Some parents will get their child ready …show more content…

inferiority for ages seven to eleven. This stage is where children learn how to be competence and constructive in many tasks by being industry or inferiority by not accomplishing or fulfilling a task well (Christensen & Kockrow, 2011). In school children are given many tasks to work on individual or with friends. Being able to accomplished a task makes a child feel successful being able to be industry and if the child who has many difficulties in a certain area may with withdrawal and be inferiority in this stage of Erikson. Looking at Laurie’s development in this stage she shows signs in both. As mention above Laurie had to take speech therapy because she had a difficult time pronouncing certain words. This was due to two reasons one being due to being premature but also because this ran in the family with certain family members. Children who have a hard time pronouncing words have a hard time learning new words making it hard on the child while he or she is reading or taking tests (Wilson et al., 2015). This was shown in Laurie’s case because she had a hard time pronouncing certain word she also had a hard time understanding which caused problems reading out loud, taking test etc. Which caused her to be held back in the first grade. It has been shown that vocabulary or speech inventions can help children by having two sessions a week to develop pronouncing word properly and grow new vocabulary for that age group (Justice, Schmitt, Murphy, Pratt, & Biancone, 2014). This showed signs of Laurie being inferiority in Erikson stage but a year later with help of speech therapy an invention with school Laurie was able to fulfill the next year successfully and plus making new life time

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