Showing posts with label Developmental models. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Developmental models. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2019

Erik Erikson's eigh stages of human development



Erikson's model is a basic part of every human services professional's graduate program. It's basic framework helps the practitioner orient themselves at a very general level to the basic developmental task of the client.

Failure to achieve a developmental task creates variable symptoms the most common of which are depression and anxiety. One of the ways of thinking about good psychotherapy is to consider the ways in which pursuit of developmental achievements can be nurtured.