Objectives
- Explore the developmental tasks and needs of the infant stage (0-2 years old)
- Maslow (Biological and safety needs)
- Erickson (Trust vs. Mistrust)
- Bowlby (Attachment)
- Piaget (Cognition/schema formation)
- Discuss how failure to get these needs met can result in later mental health issues
- Discuss how failure to resolve the trust vs. mistrust crisis results in later mental health issues
- Discuss how infant’s primitive cognitive abilities develop dysfunctional schemas for later in life
- Examine how the child is starting to develop self esteem through initiative and independence
- Explore what can go wrong in each stage and what can be done to repair damages now.
- Review developmental tasks children accomplish at each stage
- Examine how children’s thinking patterns are different than that of both toddlers and adolescents
- Explore ways to assist children and teens in enhancing their self esteem
- Introduce Kohlberg's theory of moral development
- Examine how teens thinking patterns are different than that of both pre-teens and adults
- Review Kohlberg's theory of moral development
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes