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
MSD has two

Justification
MET

Middle

refers to the adult's ability to

children who are

Adulthood

look outside oneself and care

both helping him

Our patient, MSD

(Age 40 to

for others, through parenting,

and his wife with

successfully

65 )

for instance. Erikson

their daily

achieved this

suggested that adults need

expenses. He had

stage. He was able

Care:

children as much as children

stopped working

to bear and nurture

Generativit

need adults, and that this

after his condition

children even

stage reflects the need to

worsened and now

though theyve not

vs.

create a living legacy.

his children are

finished school with

doing everything

a degree, he still

they can to support

was able to give

them even though

them a good and

theyve not finished

happy life, and now

their college

he even has

education and are

grandchildren.

Stagnation

not earning that

much.

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 48 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
Mr. MSD and his wife 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 now have
a contribution to the

Establishing
and
maintaining
economic standard of living

society.
Their current source of
income is not stable and
would only depend on

how much their children

and friends could give
them. Also their income
from their small boarding
house is only 6k monthly
and because of his
condition, their income is

Assisting teenage children to

become responsible and happy
adults

usually not enough.

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
father and were there to

Developing adult leisure-time

activities

assist him in his needs.

As verbalized, he likes to
sing on the karaoke with
his family and they would
do this 1-2x weekly since
it is their form of bonding
and it makes him really
happy. It makes him
forget about the stress
from his condition and

Relating oneself to ones spouse

as a person

their financial problems.

Mr. MSD and his wife
live happily together. His
wife said that she loves
her husband so much

because he is a good
provider and a loving
person. They do things
together most of the
time and that his wife is
the one he can trust the
most.
Accepting and adjusting to
physiological changes of middle
age

Kusog gyud na

siya mukaon pero dili

man siya dayun mutaba.
Sugod murag katong 40
years

old

siya

mag

exercise man gud na

siya taga adlaw gyud
para

bisag

medyo

na,

baskog

idaran

gihapon as verbalized
Adjusting to aging parents

N/A

by his wife.
This

is

not

applicable to the patient

because

his

parents

have already died not

less than 10 years ago.