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    Adolescent Development - Case Study

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    A 10 page paper. The introduction provides a brief introduction to developmental theories by Freud, Piaget and Erikson reporting only the stages related to adolescence. The major portion of the paper is a 20-item interview questionnaire with the youngster's responses. The final section analyzes the adolescent's responses, relating the analysis to theories of adolescent development. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

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    will turn first to the theories of Freud, Erikson and Piaget as the initial foundation. Since this assessment and analysis concerns an adolescent, the paper will only discuss the developmental  theories for this age group. Freud was the first theorist to develop any type of stages of development (ETR Associates, 2006). He presented five psychosexual stages of development  (ETR Associates, 2006). Freud believed that humans were driven by the need to satisfy biological needs, which would dispel tension (ETR Associates, 2006). That was the primary motive for  all humans (ETR Associates, 2006). He defined his stages of development in terms of the organ that he thought was used to eliminate the tension at each age (ETR Associates,  2006). The stage for adolescents is: * Genital phase: Begins at puberty. Focuses on the genital area. During this stage, the child learns to develop opposite sex relationships, If the  child is fixated on any earlier stage, there is not enough libidinal energy for this stage to develop without programs. For the individual to become a fully functioning adult, all  earlier stages must be resolved (Wikipedia, 2006). Further, this stage is about maturity and enhancing life, it is more than just simple biological reproduction, it is about intellectual and artistic  creativity (Wilderdom, 2004). Piaget presented four stages of cognitive development to explain how children learn and develop. Piaget believed these stages were sequential and invariant, which means that every person  must accomplish each stage in sequence, you cannot skip from preoperational to formal operational, for instance (Ginn, 2006). Piaget did allow for some flexibility in the age ranges for each  stage but there is no flexibility in the order of stages (Ginn, 2006). Piagets fourth stage relates to the pre-adolescent and adolescent: * Piagets fourth stage of cognitive development: Formal 

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