Erikson's Eight Stages Of Human Development

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Erikson’s work emphasized each person’s relationship to the social environment –psychosocial human development and proposed eight stages of human development with crisis in each stage to be resolved. Individuals must go through all the stages in a lifetime, whether they resolve the conflict in each stage successfully or not. You must resolve each stage before moving to the next stages in life. A person must be successful in the first stage, trust versus mistrust, is very important, because early success is a help you with later success. For example, children who develop a strong sense of trust are better able to leave their parents and caregivers and explore the environment. In turn, children who can explore the environment independently

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