The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Too many years ago, while in a college psychology class, I was introduced to the teachings of Erik Erikson and his study of the eight ...

Child development theories focus on explaining how children change and grow over the course of childhood. These developmental ...

In particular, we will evaluate whether mediators appear to be common or specific to particular age groups, treatment models, or outcome domains (e.g., psychosocial functioning, life quality, and ...

Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory (1968), suggests teenagers go through a stage of ‘crisis’, where they explore and form their sense of self and identity. This stage can (and often does ...

He believed that people acquire certain images of self and other throughout the developmental stages (Sullivan, 1953). Eric Erikson’s psychosocial theory is viewed as an extension of Freud’s ...