ERIKSON'S STAGES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

TRUST VS. MISTRUST

• Children develop a sense of trust
• when caregivers provide reliabilty, care, and affection.
• A lack of this will lead to mistrust

AUTONOMY VS. SHAME AND DOUBT

• Children need to develop
• a sense of personal control over physical skills and independence.

INITIATIVE VS. GUILT

• Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment.

INDUSTRY VS. INFERIORITY

• Children need to cope with new social and academic demands.

IDENTITY VS. ROLE CONFUSION

• Teens need to develop a sense of self and personal identity.

INTIMACY VS. ISOLATION

• Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people.

GENERATIVITY VS. STAGNATION

• Adults need to create or nurture things that will outlast them
• often by having children

EGO INTEGRITY VS. DESPAIR