Human growth and development?

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PLEASE HELP ME..
Activity 1.2
3. Suppose her parents were Mr and Mrs Smith, but both died in a tragic straight after his birth- and she was then adopted and brought up their own by Mr and Mrs Jones. How do you see her future prospects?

Activity 1.4
You are probation officer and you are meeting a new client, Liz aged 19, to talk to her about a pre-sentence report which you’ve been asked to write (in which you will comment on the reasons for her offending and the likelihood of her offending again). Liz is charged with a series of violent assaults, using knives and other weapons, on other young women.

When you ask Liz about the reasons for her offending, she shrugs:

I can’t help myself. I just see red and then my mind goes a blank. I was beaten myself as a child, you see. My dad used to beat me and then my stepdad. My mum pretended she didn’t know it was going on. I was taken into care when I was 6 and my stepdad was sent to jail for assaulting me, but my mum got back to together with him again when come out. So I suppose that was it. It’s just what was put into my head when I was a child and I can’t help it.

What might your response be to Liz what could you put in your report?

Activity 1.5
In England in 1993, Jon Venables and Robort Thompson, then both aged 10, were found guilty of the murder of a toddler, James Bulger, whom they picked up in a shopping mall, taken to a railway line and beaten to death by hitting him with bricks, many have suggested that these boys committed this appalling act because they were ‘evil’, while others have suggested that there must have been distressing events in their previos childhood that caused them to act in this way. What is your own about why they might have done this how should be seen?

Activity 2.1
Some people are attracted by Freud’s ideas; some find them repellent, while others them slightly ridiculous or comical. Where do you stand? What aspect of Freud’s thinking make you feel as you do? What is attractive, or repellent, or funny about his ideas?

What would you say were the key features of Freud’s ideas?

Activity 2.2
This small child ages four lives alone with her mother (Mandy) who is highly volatile and unpredictable. Occasionally Mandy treats her kindly, but at other times Mandy erupts into frightening rage and violence, hitting her, depriving her food, and threatening to abandon or kill her. Mandy also isolates her Jenny doesn’t know anyone else other than Mandy’s friends.
She does not know other children of her own age.

How would Jenny deal with this situation psychologically? How would she explain to herself what was going on? How would she comfort herself?

Please note: we are not asking you to guess what Freud might say about this. We are asking you to consider what you yourself think, based on you own experience and your own imagination.

Activity 2.3
Can you think of examples among people know of people with oral fixations, anal fixations or Fixations from the phallic stage, in Freud’s sense?

Do you find that these concepts shed any light on behaviour (whether others people’s or indeed your own)?

Thinking of the genital stage, can you think of examples of people who have chosen partners who remind you of their opposite-sex parent?

Can you think of instances, from your own experience of denial, splitting or projection?

At the beginning of this discussion, we asked you to consider your own preconceptions about what Freud was about. Having considered this again, what do you think about Freud’s idea about sex-and its importance in human development?

What would you consider to be major problems with Freud’s theory, and what would you see as its strengths?

Activity 2.4
What stage are you at in your life? Look through the stages you have already been through and see whether you agree with Erikson about issues that were important at each stage.
Which stages do you think you negotiated most successfully? Which ones do you think you negotiated less successfully? (Everyone carries some ‘baggage’ from unresolved issues in earlier life-‘unfavourable out comes’ in Erikson terminology.)

What do you see as the main drawbacks of Erikson’s model?