Gloria's Case: Lifespan Development Analysis, COUN2231, ACAP College

This case study provides an analysis of a 5-year-old girl named Gloria, focusing on her psychological development through the lens of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. The analysis highlights Gloria's recalling of conflicting memories and reconstruction of her self-view as a middle childhood individual. It applies Erikson's theory, particularly Stage 4 (Industry vs. Inferiority), to understand Gloria's attempts to learn, understand, and define herself within her environment. The study discusses the strengths and limitations of Erikson's theory, reflecting on its applicability in professional counselling practices for understanding and addressing developmental issues in children. It concludes that Erikson's theory provides a valuable framework for comprehending a child's behavior and mental growth, aiding in developing appropriate counselling approaches. Desklib provides access to similar case studies and resources for students.

DEVELOPMENT CASE
ANALYSIS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Briefly introducing case study and life stage...............................................................................3
Providing overview of developmental theory related to case study of Gloria.............................3
Discussing how theory can be applied to the case study.............................................................4
Reflecting on how I can apply the theory describe to my professional practice.........................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The Development case analysis, is considered as strategic approach that utilize to develop
better understanding related to children under a specific age. It plays significant role in the
context of solving their issues and challenges they face. The current assessment will be based on
Gloria, 5 years old girl, who is going to nursery school. The study will explain brief intro about
chosen case and life stage. It will also define the overview of developmental theory and how this
concept can be applied to that case. Lastly, the report will justify the reflective statement and
specify how I could apply the theory to my professional practice.
MAIN BODY
Briefly introducing case study and life stage.
Gloria case study highlight the recalling activity of girl, who recalls her conflicting
memories related to her early years for purpose of stimulating a reconstruction of her view of
themselves in the society as middle age group children. At the age of 5, she decides to not grow
up, which Gloria remember. She always prefers to spent her time in particular private place
where this girl felt safe to read and make a clear imagination about herself in the society. There
are different types of life stages related to human individual person consider as they may fall
under all.
In case of Gloria, middle childhood is relevant stage which defines the specific period
after a child transition from school years throughout the time, they begin entering into their
golden years and the memorable period (Rollè and et.al., 2019).
Providing overview of developmental theory related to case study of Gloria.
A development concept defines the varied concepts or theories related to the growing
process of a child from their childhood into later adulthood. In case of Gloria, Erikson Theory
of psychological development is suitable, because it covers varied concepts related to children
development and growth, either in the context of mental and physical progress (Theories of
Human Growth and Development, 2022). This concept covers eight stages of psychological
development, which begin among a child from infancy and end to adulthood. According to
chosen theory, during each phase a children experience a phycological crisis which might be had
an impact upon their personality development, whether it is positive or negative in terms.

Memory recalling is considered as typical thing according to the chosen theory, while
unnecessary, recognition and reconstruction of own view of themselves in the community is
atypical points.
Erickson's theory of psychological development defines each stage and these are; trust
versus mistrust, Autonomy vs shame and doubt, initiative vs guild, industry vs inferiority,
identify vs identity confusion, etc (Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development, 2018).
All these stages refers to overall procedure of a person or child psychological development,
which drive their attention toward considering earlier and current environment and then moving
ahead toward developing themselves.
According to concept, psychological development is considered as fancy stage that
defines how a child individual need mesh with requirement of society.
Discussing how theory can be applied to the case study.
Erik Erickson's theory of psychological development is applied to case of Gloria, because
she is growing herself psychologically in term of recalling memories and reconstructing her
views in society as middle age child. Stage 4 may define the actual situation of Gloria in chosen
theory in term of defining phase of middle childhood where she attempts to learn and understand
reading and writing things, to do sum-up about herself, which actually she to do so
(Samsanovich, 2021). It is one of those phases where children may gain excellent significance
and become a major line of self-esteem. It may drive the attention of a child toward feeling the
need to win approval in form of demonstrating particular competencies and effectiveness that are
valued by the others such as society to develop a sense of price in aim accomplishment. These
things exactly happen with Gloria, as she prefers to stay at specific place where she can feel
comfortable to read and write her own views about herself in the society as a small kid. She like
cocoon in which Gloria lives and has no need for any transition required to her promotion in
school.
Strengths-
The key strength of Erickson's theory is that is defines and encompasses 8 stages of
psychological development may help a person to understand what a child from childhood to
adulthood thing and have perspectives, which directly or indirectly putting impact on their
growth (Khairani & Maemonah, 2021).
Limitation-

The main limitation or weakness of Erickson's concept is that the actual mechanisms for
resolving issues and moving from one phase to another are not well defined and developed, that
make complication to understand the development of a child psychology.
Reflecting on how I can apply the theory describe to my professional practice.
In my professional counselling practice, I can apply Erickson's theory of psychological
development and will change my approach in positive manner. I can apply the overall concept, in
term of developing understanding related to each stage of psychological growth, which make me
capable to heal any issue among children's belonging to varied age group from 0-1 to 18,, more
than that. It will change my practice in the context of professional counselling positively, by
driving my concentration toward developing and comprehending a child behaviour and the way
they grow mentally and physically.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it has been concluded that middle age children has
always recalls their memories that enables them to make clear view of themselves in the society.
They think about a situation multiple time and then take action, which is quite normal in
behaviour of middle age child. Furthermore, by summing up above discussion, it has been
summarized that by implementing Erik Erikson theory the understanding about middle age
children developed. The theory has specified the period when a child has conducted varied
activities and practices that enabled them to grow with a clear view of their role in the society as
a small child.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Khairani, K., & Maemonah, M. (2021). THE NATURE OF PSYCHOSOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD ACCORDING TO ERIK ERIKSON'S
VIEW. Jurnal Kajian Gender dan Anak. 5(2). 151-161.
Rollè, L & et.al., (2019). Father involvement and cognitive development in early and middle
childhood: A systematic review. Frontiers in psychology. 10. p.2405.
Samsanovich, A. (2021). Theory and diversity: A descriptive study of Erikson’s psychosocial
development stages.
Online
Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development. 2018. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html>
Theories of Human Growth and Development. 2022. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://study.com/learn/lesson/theories-human-growth-development.html>

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