Question

Explain how you would use your understanding of ONE of the major developmental theories to deal with eachof the difficulties listed below:

a. Your infant daughter puts everything in her mouth, including the dog's food. b. Youreight-year-old son is failing math; all he cares about is baseball.

c. Your two-year-old daughter refuses to wear the clothes you pick for her every morning, which makesgetting dressed a twenty-minute battle.

d. Your sixty-eight-year-old neighbor is chronically depressed and feels she has wasted her life.

e. Your 18-year-old daughter has decided not to go to college. Instead she’s moving to Colorado to becomea ski instructor.

f. Your 11-year-old son is the class bully.

Answer 1

For all these difficulty, one major theory of development which support these difficulties are "Psychosocial Development" by Erikson.In this theory he explained the development behaviour with issues facing by particular stages.He gave eight stages of psychosocial development.

A-Infant daughter puts everything in her mouth because her primary needs was not fullfill like eating, thirst etc,It also happend when she is not feel secure as Erikson labeled as " Trust VS Mistrust"

B- Eight years old son is failing maths just because all he cares about is baseball, this stage labeled as "industry vs. inferiority" by Erikson in which he said Children develop self confidence at this stage and particiapte new activities where they get success or failure, If children got failure then they try to involve another activities where they feel success and secure ,as this development issues expained.

C-Two-years old daughter refuses to wear the clothes because at this stage she passed thorough Autonomy vs. shame/doubt level where she want to select her dress independently or wants to take decision independently.

D- Your sixty-eight-year-old neighbor is chronically depressed and feels she has wasted her life because at this stage they assess and make sense of life and meaning of contributions which lebeled as Integrity vs. despair, If she interpret meaningless contribution for her family and ownself then she has faced these difficulties.