Erikson's stages
Psychosocial life phases
Erikson's stages are eight phases of psychological development spanning the entire human lifespan, each centered on a specific conflict: trust versus mistrust in infancy, autonomy versus shame in toddlerhood, and so on through integrity versus despair in old age.
The framework, from psychologist Erik Erikson, suggests healthy development requires successfully resolving each stage's central tension.
She's clearly in the identity-versus-role-confusion stage.
- infancyEarliest period of life
- social rolesExpected behavioral positions
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- identity formationBuilding a sense of self
- agingGrowing older over time
old age · adulthood · adolescence · identity crisis · role confusion · life span · maturity · developmental psychology · generativity · midlife crisis · self-concept · interpersonal relationships · cultural influences · personality development · societal norms · milestones · transitions · emotional resilience
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- aging psychologyaging brain, life review, late adulthood, life span, brain aging