Classic Theories of Child Development:ERIKSON
Adolescent Stage
11 years and through end of adolescence
- Struggle to develop ego identity (sense of inner sameness and continuity)
- Preoccupation with appearance, hero worship, ideology
- Group identity (peers) develops
- Danger of role confusion, doubts about sexual and vocational identity
- Psychosocial moratorium, a stage between morality learned by the child
and the ethics to be developed by the adult
