Erik Erikson develops a lifespan model with emphasis on the role of society at during Ego development. His psychosocial theory of the human indicates successful completion of a hierarchy of developmental situations. Erikson develops eight stages ranging from learning to put trust in others, establishing a balance between initiative and guilt, gathering a sense of efficacy in significant interpersonal relationships, and developing wisdom. This paper will look at the properties of the first stage of Trust versus Mistrust as vulnerabilities for Depression in young children.
The first stage of Erikson’s psychosocial model of development is specific to the age range of infancy to eighteen months. During this time period, a child presents as immature, vulnerable, and highly dependent. A child learns through being responded to and cared for that the world he/she lives in is safe. The salient interactions where the response from the caregiver is most important are feeding time and general crying episodes. An example of an interaction in a feeding experience is a child crying for food and the mother readily accessible to deliver a bottle. Crying episodes can appear as a child weeping throughout the night seeking physical contact and the mother once again physically available to offer. Through these examples, the child receives attention for their primary needs in a therapeutic way, with emphasis on physical availability and emotional connection. Successfully completing this stage means a baby has developed trust in self, other people, and the world. These characteristics then form a protected sense of hope. Physical availability and emotional connection contribute to hope. …show more content…
Physical availability includes constant contact and touches, which communicate to a child trust and a sense of security in a world composed of different people. The emotional connection is just as important because a mother 's physically presence to the needs of the baby may not be therapeutic. An example is misreading the need of the child. If a mother misreads that specific need of her child, it can lead to feelings of abandonment. The caregiver has the primary role of providing a stable foundational framework. A foundational framework of a parent whom provides a consistent and stable form of care infers reliability and security. It is then expected for children to later grow with the same expectations in other relationships. The patterns obtained from this stage influence a person’s interactions later in life and the reactions to life’s situations as they come. Interactions include peer relationships, school relationships with professors, co-workers, and other meaningful interactions that will have crisis. The outcome from the stage of trust versus mistrust has two dimensions relational and personal level. This correlates with the idea that a person is learning to value themselves while trusting connections with …show more content…
A unique aspect of children with depression in comparison to the other populations studied is that children stay in the environments that contribute to the clinical distress. A major part of Depression is hopelessness defined as feelings of powerlessness, helplessness, and despair around life situations. Poor emotional functioning shaped by the earliest stage of bonding between a child and a parent can make simple situations feel impossible to deal with. To cope with these feelings requires higher order thinking and children have an immature way of coping and thinking. This inherently leads to high expectations. Children develop these expectations for all interactions to resemble the standard of what the primacy caregiver established. This may lead to heightened emotions during fear-induced dynamics like refusing to take their first walk or aggressively acting out on the first day of
The first stage of Erikson’s psychosocial model of development is specific to the age range of infancy to eighteen months. During this time period, a child presents as immature, vulnerable, and highly dependent. A child learns through being responded to and cared for that the world he/she lives in is safe. The salient interactions where the response from the caregiver is most important are feeding time and general crying episodes. An example of an interaction in a feeding experience is a child crying for food and the mother readily accessible to deliver a bottle. Crying episodes can appear as a child weeping throughout the night seeking physical contact and the mother once again physically available to offer. Through these examples, the child receives attention for their primary needs in a therapeutic way, with emphasis on physical availability and emotional connection. Successfully completing this stage means a baby has developed trust in self, other people, and the world. These characteristics then form a protected sense of hope. Physical availability and emotional connection contribute to hope. …show more content…
Physical availability includes constant contact and touches, which communicate to a child trust and a sense of security in a world composed of different people. The emotional connection is just as important because a mother 's physically presence to the needs of the baby may not be therapeutic. An example is misreading the need of the child. If a mother misreads that specific need of her child, it can lead to feelings of abandonment. The caregiver has the primary role of providing a stable foundational framework. A foundational framework of a parent whom provides a consistent and stable form of care infers reliability and security. It is then expected for children to later grow with the same expectations in other relationships. The patterns obtained from this stage influence a person’s interactions later in life and the reactions to life’s situations as they come. Interactions include peer relationships, school relationships with professors, co-workers, and other meaningful interactions that will have crisis. The outcome from the stage of trust versus mistrust has two dimensions relational and personal level. This correlates with the idea that a person is learning to value themselves while trusting connections with …show more content…
A unique aspect of children with depression in comparison to the other populations studied is that children stay in the environments that contribute to the clinical distress. A major part of Depression is hopelessness defined as feelings of powerlessness, helplessness, and despair around life situations. Poor emotional functioning shaped by the earliest stage of bonding between a child and a parent can make simple situations feel impossible to deal with. To cope with these feelings requires higher order thinking and children have an immature way of coping and thinking. This inherently leads to high expectations. Children develop these expectations for all interactions to resemble the standard of what the primacy caregiver established. This may lead to heightened emotions during fear-induced dynamics like refusing to take their first walk or aggressively acting out on the first day of