Reviewed by Steven Gans, MD Key Takeaways Between the ages of 18 months and 3 years, children begin to express a greater need ...

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development describes eight developmental stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage the person ...

Erik Erikson has had the greatest impact on our understanding of human development since Sigmund Freud. While Freud`s theory of psychosexual development focuses on the disturbances of early childhood, ...

Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Key Takeaways Child development theories help explain how children grow socially, emotionally, and cognitively over time.Understanding child development is valuable for ...

Erik Erikson developed a psychosocial stage theory that illuminates how people progress through certain stages during their lifespans. The stages in this theory of development may be negotiated poorly ...

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” tells the ...

Human psychology is very complex to understand, we have range of emotions, behaviours and problems to deal with. Understanding each problems and phase through which a person goes at different levels ...

Erik Erikson's psychosocial developmental theory (1950, 1968) was a response to Freud's reductionistic views of the human personality. For Erikson, all people have an essence, including the sexuality ...