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DEVELOPMENT STAGE ISSUES
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    A Case Study of John, 15 Years Old Adolescent in Relation to Self-Esteem and Parent-Child Relationship Psychosocial Developmental Stage Issues
    
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    7/27/2012
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Table of contents
Introduction…………………………………………………………………Page 2
Self-esteem
John’s extremes self-esteem psychosocial development issue………Page 3
Parent-child relationships
John’s conflict with his parents in psychosocial development…….Page 5
Hope theory………………………………………………………………....Page 6
Hopefulness in behaviour change and adaptive behaviour………………..Page 7
Conclusions…………………………………………………………..…….Page 8
References
Introduction
John, a school-going adolescent (15 years), is facing dilemmas during psychological development at his age. Adolescents are known to undergo physical, psychological and physiological changes during this age of puberty that runs between 13-19 years of age. In this case, the focus will be on the psychological aspects, and in particular psychosocial development issues. Using details and with appropriate literature, two issues have been expounded: self-esteem and parent-child relationship. Hope theory and therapy serves as the basis of arguments in respect to the presented issues. Other models mentioned are Eriksonian, Loevinger’s, Gottfredson and Hirschi’s theories.
Self-esteem
John’s extremes self-esteem psychosocial development issue
Self-esteem is defined, as confidence in one’s abilities. John exhibits both extremes of self-esteem. On one hand, John seems to have a low self-esteem due to his poor athletic qualities. This is made worse by his physique, which is small for his age bracket, when compared to the rest of the boys in his class. However, John has a high self-esteem. He has quick understanding and funny in class, qualities that have enabled him be voted to be the class captain. His leadership skills in class are excellent with no traces of favouritism evident from the decisions he makes. In addition, he encourages teamwork by involving the shy boys in class activities. It is self-evident therefore, that John personal struggle is the inferior complex he possesses in regards to athletics as opposed to his high self-esteem that makes him a good leader.
Self esteem as noted by (Quatman & Watson, 2010) is a psychological fact that has both extremes of positive and negative outcomes. It is during adolescent age that a self-esteem metamorphosis is observed with initial decline at the beginning of puberty to an improvement in later puberty ages. The authors have as well indicated that this assumption does not apply to the global observation of adolescents’ self-esteem metamorphosis. They suggest a self-defining context to self-esteem observations in studies. It is also well appreciated that adolescence brings along a sense of increased cognitive capacity, increased self-concept, self-reflection, self-determination and opposite-sex relationships issues that have not been given discussion in this case study.
To effectively evaluate self –esteem tendencies among the male and female,...