The information in our Child Development book (Santrock, 2014) offers several theories of child development that contribute to helping us understand how we develop. Psychoanalytic theories are based on the belief that development is mostly unconscious. Erikson’s theory describes eight stages of development, that during each stage a crisis will need to be resolved, and that the greater the success in resolving the crisis, the healthier the person’s development will be. I feel this helps me understand the Black Lives Matter Movement by opening my eyes to the fact that just because a person may have had a rough childhood, or had gone through a stage of life with an unresolved crisis, does not mean it is acceptable to take it out on others and/or exhibit discriminatory or violent behaviors. If people make an attempt to examine themselves, take responsibility for their actions, ponder if there is a stage in their life that needs revisiting and
The information in our Child Development book (Santrock, 2014) offers several theories of child development that contribute to helping us understand how we develop. Psychoanalytic theories are based on the belief that development is mostly unconscious. Erikson’s theory describes eight stages of development, that during each stage a crisis will need to be resolved, and that the greater the success in resolving the crisis, the healthier the person’s development will be. I feel this helps me understand the Black Lives Matter Movement by opening my eyes to the fact that just because a person may have had a rough childhood, or had gone through a stage of life with an unresolved crisis, does not mean it is acceptable to take it out on others and/or exhibit discriminatory or violent behaviors. If people make an attempt to examine themselves, take responsibility for their actions, ponder if there is a stage in their life that needs revisiting and