Psychosocial Theory

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, is a psychoanalytic theory which

identifies eight stages through which a healthily developing human should pass
from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage, the person confronts, and hopefully
masters, new challenges. Each stage builds upon the successful completion of earlier
stages. The challenges of stages not successfully completed may be expected to
reappear as problems in the future.
Stage
Stage 7:

Central Task
By "generativity" Erikson

Actual
EST has five

Justification
MET

Middle

refers to the adult's ability to

children who are

Adulthood

look outside oneself and care

now successful in

Our patient, CPM

(Age 40 to

for others, through parenting,

their lives. She had

successfully

65 )

for instance. Erikson

stopped working

achieved this

suggested that adults need

since her children

stage. She was

Care:

children as much as children

are financially

able to bear and

Generativit

need adults, and that this

supporting her. She

nurture children,

stage reflects the need to

is now focusing on

and now she even

vs.

create a living legacy.

taking care of her

has grandchildren.

Stagnation

grandchildren.

Developmental Task Theory

Havighursts main assertion is that development is continuous throughout

the entire lifespan, occurring in stages, where the individual moves from one
stage to the next by means of successful resolution of problems or performance
of developmental tasks. This theory presents the individual as an active learner
who continually interacts with a similarly active social environment.

Our client is 54 years of age which belongs to the middle age. We

identified these tasks to be achieved by our client:

Middle Adulthood (40-60 yrs)

Developmental Tasks
Achieved
Achieving adult civic and social
responsibility

Justification
Mrs. EST and her
husband are legally
married and are good
citizens because until
now they are living in
harmony and they were
good parents to their
children, thus they were
able to raise good
individuals that are now
have a big contribution to

Establishing

and

maintaining

the society.
She has her own rice
shop, she is a money

lender and has a parlor

economic standard of living

business which gives her

a lot of income thus she
is able to have stable
economic standard of
living with an income of

Assisting teenage children to

become responsible and happy
adults

70,000-100,000 monthly
She and her husband
have supported their
children into their studies
and in their well-being
because we have
observed, during the
interview, that they were
there to support their
mother and were there to
assist her in her needs.
Most of her children
already have a degree
and are starting to be

Developing adult leisure-time

activities

independent.
As verbalized, she likes
to travel everywhere and
she says it is her favorite
leisure time. Before she
was admitted, she and
her family went to Mati
and had a short vacation
there. She said she
wants to travel more
because it makes her
happy and makes her

forget all the stress from

her businesses and
duties as a money
Relating oneself to ones spouse
as a person

Mrs.

lender.
EST and

husband

live

her

happily

together. She said she

loves her husband so
much because he is a
good provider and a
loving person. They do
things together most of
the

time

because

of

their business and that

her husband is the one
Accepting and adjusting to
physiological changes of middle
age

she can trust the most.

Okay man ko sa
akong lawas. Happy na
kaayo ko karon bahala
nag

medyo

oldie

ug

chubby na ana man jud

na as verbalized by the
patient.
Adjusting to aging parents