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Life Cycle Development

My ôinterpreterö is named Don Weldon, a 69-year-old retired accountant who is divorced with one male son age 39. Mr. Weldon worked for Penn State University for over thirty years and resides in State College, Pennsylvania, in the winters and Lakeland, Florida, in the winters. In interviewing Mr. Weldon, his perspective on the shape of his life is most aligned with EriksonÆs life cycle stage development model. Before demonstrating the life experiences, attitudes, and beliefs of Mr. Weldon that illustrate this connection, it is important to provide a brief synopsis of EriksonÆs life cycle theory of human growth and development.

ERIK ERIKSONÆS STAGE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Erikson (1968) has identified eight separate developmental stages, which together constitute the human life cycle that comprise both an encounter and a crisis. It is the resolution of this crisis which assists the individual in moving (or developing) and achieving the next stage of life. Erikson (1968) states that each stage ôbecomes a crisis because incipient growth and awareness in a new part function go together with a shift in instinctual energy and yet also cause a specific vulnerability in that partö (95).

The following chart offers a summation of the crises occurring at each of EriksonÆs developmental stages.

V Identity versus identify confusion

VII Generativity versus stagnation

In his schema, each successive step in the developmental process is a potential crisis because of a radical change in perspective (Erikson, 1968). Crisis is used by Erikson in a developmental sense to connote not a threat of catastrophe, but a turning point, ôa critical period of increased vulnerability and heightened potential, and therefore, the ontogenetic source of generational strength and maladjustmentö (Erikson, 1968, 96). In each stage, the interpersonal perspective changes rapidly and often radically. Different capacities use different oppo...

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