DEVELOPMENTAL

ERIK ERIKSON
THEORY
GNISRUN FO SNOITADNUOF LACITEROEHT
PRESENTATION
DISCUSSION HIGHLIGHTS

OVERVIEW
Objectives

Erik Erikson

Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development

OBJECTIVES
TO IDENTIFY THE TO DIFFERENTIATE
EIGHT STAGES OF EACH STAGES FROM
PSYCHOSOCIAL ONE ANOTHER
DEVELOPMENT

TO STATE THE EIGHT TO LIST DOWN THE

STAGES IN THEIR FORMULATED
OWN VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
THE EIGHT STAGES
ERIK ERIKSON
FULL NAME: Erik Homburger Erikson

- A world fame psychoanalyst,

anthropologist, psychohistorian, and a

medical school professor

- Heavy influence on our psychological

understanding of the youth

- Some identity crisis of his own may have

sparked his interest in study

- Father abandoned him and his mother

before his birth

- Ideas influenced by Freud's work with

personalities
DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
EIGHT STAGES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL

DEVELOPMENT
STAGE 1: TRUST VS. MISTRUST

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

INFANT-18 MONTHS HOPE
STAGE 2: AUTONOMY VS.
SHAME/DOUBT

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

18 MONTHS-3 YEARS WILL
STAGE 3: INITIATIVE VS. GUILT

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

3 YEARS-5 YEARS PURPOSE
STAGE 4: INDUSTRY VS.
INFERIORITY

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

5 YEARS-13 YEARS COMPETENCY
STAGE 5: IDENTITY VS.
CONFUSION

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

13 YEARS-21 YEARS FIDELITY
STAGE 6: INTIMACY VS.
ISOLATION

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

21 YEARS-39 YEARS LOVE
STAGE 7: GENERATIVITY VS.
STAGNATION

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

40 YEARS-65 YEARS CARE
STAGE 8: INTEGRITY VS.
DESPAIR

APPROXIMATE AGE VIRTUE DEVELOPED

65 YEARS AND OLDER WISDOM
"The more you know yourself,
the more patience you have
for what you see in others."
ERIK ERIKSON