Preparation for Child Psych PRITE and Boards
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Introduction
This article discusses normal development of school-age children, from first grade until adolescence. Maturation of the central nervous system and associated pathophysiology is addressed here.
Theorists
- Freud theorized that a school-age child has an established superego, and had overcome unconscious Oedipal urges; the child is going through the latency phase, the 4th of the 5 stages of psychosexual development. He has yet to reach the sexually mature genital stage of adolescence.
- Erikson, in his theory of psychosocial development, associated the age between 6 and puberty as the time of industry vs. inferiority conflict, with competence being the corresponding virtue.
- Piaget's theory of cognitive development assigns concrete stage of development to school-age children.
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