Family Developmental Stage and Lifespan Stage: A Nursing Perspective

NURSING

Table of Contents
Description of the family developmental stage......................................................................................2
Identification of the specific family lifespan stage................................................................................3
Solution.............................................................................................................................................4
Developmental task...............................................................................................................................5
Early adulthood.................................................................................................................................5
Stability in early adulthood................................................................................................................5
Middle adulthood...............................................................................................................................5
Healthcare concern in the family nursing care.......................................................................................5
Resilience..............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7
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Description of the family developmental stage
The family developmental stage is a stage for observing the children and their source of
knowledge. However, the knowledge is not only restricted in parental guidance or school
guidance. Instead, it includes their real-life experiences. Piaget has segmented the different
stages of life according to their knowledge activity. The stages are:
Sensorimotor: Age group is from birth to two years. In this age group, the activities and
interactions are only restricted within the use of symbols and several body movements.
Knowledge cannot be gathered in this stage as the infant children cannot understand the
meaning of the reaction (Bjorklund, 2018). In Michael and Jane’s family, Melanie is in this
stage as she is presently eighteen months old. She cannot play games properly as her sense of
reaction has not developed properly to react to external activities.
Preoperational: Age group is from two years to seven years. This is a developmental stage
for children when they start learning languages, new words can react to the external activities.
In Michael and Jane’s family, Millie is in the stage of preoperational as she is now five years
old. She can express her feelings through words and knows to play. However, she has not
developed a matured sense of what she gets annoyed when her eighteen years old sister
cannot play skipping and sorting with her.
Concrete operational: Age group is from seven years to eleven years. The characteristic of
this age group is to respond to the community, gather knowledge from external sources and
develop a self-identical sense (Masten& Barnes, 2018).
Formal operational: The age group is from eleven years to the rest of the adulthood. In this
age, persons develop a right to take owns decision and formulate a hypothesis and start
valuing the relationship. Jane and Michaelare from thisage group. However, Nathan is in a
transitional age as he is 14 now. He has developed a mentality to take his own decision but
he is not mature enough to take its own.
However, Erikson disagreed with the Piaget's cognitive developmental stages. The cognitive
developmental stage defines people gathers experiences according to the growing of age.
However, Erikson countered the argument by stating that experience and social reactions are
the only sources to gather knowledge.
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