Psychosocial Development Across the Lifespan

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Psychosocial development across the lifespan
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PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFESPAN1
Individual passes through various changes as the move forward in life. There are
development that is experiences by many human in their span of life, from birth to death.
Psychologists have been trying to understand and provide a possible explanation for these
changes (Smith & Thompson, 2017). Some of this changes are considered to be normal and
the human expects changes in their life. Although, there are many changes that are expected
to be challenging for many people. The following paper would he discussing about the
various ways that are experienced by people and provide a psychological impact on people’s
development in their lifespan. With consideration of bullying in their adolescence age period
of 11-20, the following paper would be discussing about concerns that are relevant to the
health related issues and would promote well-being of the people (Roland, 2017). This would
also minimize the harm which is caused sue to some impacts.
One of the common factor that most of the children around the globe have gone
through is bullying. With the help of a survey, it is estimated that school children are bullied
in their schooling year and 10 percent of them are bullied on a regular basis (Wolke &
Lereya, 2015). Verbal and physical abuse is considered as bullying. It is found that physical
bullying is more common among boys and girls tends to use verbal actions. The action of
bullying have also been reported at online sites, emails., chats and social networking sites too.
The children that go through bullying have seen to be going through real sufferings and have
great impact on their social life. The action of bullying could led to serious attempts of
suicides in children and students. It is seen that the bullies are the one who have been bullied
in their primary stage of life. Bullies could also be due to some events like depression, anger
or fights at schools and homes (Hymel & Swearer, 2015). It is seen that the children that are
bullied are often belong to some specific group that could easily be intermediated and have
specific sets of low profile friends. The process of bullying is varies in many ways like –
matter of joke, prank victim, or domination.

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The effects of bullying could be effected on the bully as well as everyone, the bullies
and the people who witness it. The impact of bullying could have many negative impact such
as physical and mental health degrade and bad personality development. The children that re
bullied are often seen to experience anxiety and depression. The results of bullying would
result in change in eating habit and sleeping pattern, and lose of interest in activities that were
enjoyed before. Health issues also increases due to bullying (Ttofi et al., 2016). In essence to
all the issues, children are also seen to have poor performance in academic as well as
decrease in school participation. These children even like to drop out from the school.
Each children is different and their reaction to the bullying is also different. As there
are immediate impact to the bullying, it is also seen there are long term impacts as well that
lasts life long. The long term influences of bullying turns out to be harsh in realty. It is seen
that the children are not being treated from the impact of bullying have high chances iof
suffering from chronic depression (Matthiesen & Einarsen, 2015). Chronic depression is
considered as episodic depression that occur due to traumas from childhood. The incident of
bullying could turn into traumatic incidents for the children and could result into chronic
depression. It is seen that chronic depression tends to last longer than the episodic depression.
Suicidal thoughts, attempts and tendencies are common in children that have been suffered
with bullying. Anxiety is common in these children as well. It has also been encountered that
post traumatic disorder occurs in the children who have been through bullying (Waasdorp &
Bradshaw, 2015). With all the issues that have been mentioned earlier, there are also behavior
changes like self-harm, self-destruction and poor general health among the children who have
been bullied. It is hard for the children to regain trust and build relationship with others.
All the mental health professionals that are placed either at school or community, they
know the extended effect that bullying could cause to the children that have been through
bullying. The professionals that are related to health also plays an important role in