Personal Development: A Personal Introduction Of Childhood And Adolescence

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Personal Introduction of Childhood – Adolescence Childhood and adolescence is a time in life when one goes through many changes. Most children around the age of five are leaving home, some for the first times and starting kindergarten, where they are getting used to new surroundings and start what is the beginning of their social lives. Adolescence is when one goes through many different types of changes that include the mind, body and social developments. Some childhood-adolescence years are full of conflict and trauma which was the case of mine. Finding out at a young age that I was adopted caused mixed emotions and identity issues, being sexually molested at a young age by a family member and a neighbor and then raped at fourteen caused I found and developed my faith both in God, myself and others. Fowler states in his faith development theory that faith “enables them to face and deal with the challenges of human life and death, relying on that which has the quality of ultimacy in their lives” (Fowler & Dell 2004). I was able to find the strength to forgive those that put me in harm’s way and those that harmed me. I was able to form a ‘friendship’ with my mom and learn to build trust in others. Going throw this type of development, out of all the others mentioned before in this paper this one best fit my situation and what I went through it helped me to be able to move on from the traumas in my early childhood and rebuild my environment and relationships with those around C., & Blewitt, P. (2015). The life span: Human development for helping professionals (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Fowler, J.W & Dell, M.L. (2004). Stages of faith and identity: birth to teens. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2004, Pages 17-33, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1056-4993(03)00073-7. Steinbels, N., Crone, E., Blakemore, S.J. & Kadosh, K.C. (2017). Development holds the key to understanding the interplay of nature versus nurture in shaping the individual. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 25, June, Pages 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.05.006. Vicedo, M. . (2011). The social nature of the mother's tie to her child: John bowlby's theory of attachment in post-war america. British Journal for the History of Science, 44(3), 401-426.

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