Grow A Pear: A Guide to Improved Emotional Intelligence by Cornwall Michael

Author:Cornwall, Michael [Cornwall, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

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The Nature of Nurture

There is in everyone at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. ― Erik Erikson

EI includes in its theoretical construct the influence of psychosocial development. Psychosocial development is a theory in psychology that refers to the expression of an individual's personality and how social experiences shape it throughout their life. The idea was proposed by Erik Erikson, who believed that an individual's personality develops through a series of stages, each of which is characterized by a specific psychosocial crisis that needs to be resolved. These stages include trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role confusion, and intimacy vs. isolation. Each stage builds upon the one before it and is essential for developing a healthy personality.

Human development is summarized simply as a skill and deficit-building process, a progression through life that is always engaged and influenced by our prior encounters. Establishing the elemental concept of trust as the ground floor of our initial and ongoing human journey may be Nature’s commentary on encountering others later on in life. If achieved, we can expect the basic concept of trust to withstand the weight of the seven additional layers of experience we will likely place upon it.

Infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and old age are the age-specific periods of human life. These stages may represent a coordinated pattern of psychosocial expression, culminating in the particular strengths and deficits to meet the predictable crises inherent in addressing living humans' challenges. We propose eight stages of human psychosocial development, but we should remember that this is a theory for understanding human psychosocial development. We may not grow definitively, but we seem to grow with predictability. We may sometimes develop in one dimension and not in another unevenly. We may grow partially. We may be mature in one realm and childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or toward the future. We are, nevertheless, made up of layers and constellations of cells.

First Phase of Human Psychosocial Development / Stages 1-4

Seed Germination

Rooting & Budding

The Discovery of the I

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