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Health Differences Across the Lifespan 2 Study Guide

Industry versus Inferiority (5 to 13 Years) • Here the child is in school. • He tries to master the crisis of industry versus inferiority aiming toward the development of a sense of competence. Identity versus Role Confusion (13 to 21 Years) • At puberty, the fifth stage, the task of adolescence is to navigate their “identity crisis” as each individual struggles with a degree of “identity confusion.” • The lasting outcome of this stage can be a capacity for fidelity. Intimacy versus Isolation (21 to 40 Years) • Young adulthood, at the stage of genitality, is marked by the crisis of intimacy versus isolation, out of which may derive the achievement of a capacity for love. Generativity versus Stagnation (40 to 60 years) • Care is the virtue that corresponds to this stage. • This failure of generativity can lead to profound personal stagnation, masked by a variety of escapisms, such as alcohol and drug abuse, and sexual infidelities. Mid-life crisis may occur. Integrity versus Despair (60 years to death) • The individual in possession of the virtue of wisdom and a sense of integrity has room to tolerate the proximity of death. • When the attempt to attain integrity has failed, the individual may become deeply disgusted with the external world and contemptuous of persons as well as institutions. Nursing Implications Application of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development helps in analyzing the patient's symptomatic behavior in the context of traumatic past experiences and struggles with current developmental tasks. When patients' resolutions of previous psychosocial stages have been so faulty as to seriously compromise their adult development, they have the opportunity to rework early development through the relationship with the therapist. 1.7 Other Significant Theories and Therapies Topographical Theory Topographical theory explains three regions of mental functioning, or systems of the mind, exist as

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