Reflection Of Ryan's Development Through Life, By Newman

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Early adolescence is one of the toughest stages because of how rapid teen’s physical bodies, social environment, and emotional and biological development all changes to equip them for adulthood. During this stage, young teens will start to blossom and explore in their identity within themselves and their identity within their peers. In the text book “Development Through Life” by Newman, explains how the psychological crisis, central process, ego quality, core pathology and the theory on formal operational thought all have an impact on the development of an adolescence (Newman & Newman, 2012). Understanding what goes on in the stage of early adolescence can help to explain why a teenage boy would kill himself because of others actions. Ryan died by suicide because of being bullied and cyber bullied. In the case of Ryan, he was bullied on and off from fifth grade to eighth grade level and because of that he didn’t really know how to handle the situation. In this life stage, he was just trying to fit in with others and do his best in school. The purpose of this reflection paper is to use understand the early adolescence stage and to relate that to Ryan’s story to help explain and prevent bullying and cyber bully.

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Based on the concerns of Ryan’s early adolescence problems with his speech, physical development delay, and his overall developmental history, you can identify the previous psychosocial stages that might have presented difficulty for him. The psychosocial stage of industry was difficult for Ryan. In the Industry crisis, Ryan was supposed to learn new skills and pick it up fast, but instead he was having a hard time in understanding his school work. So instead of Ryan going by his prime adaptive ego quality to keep him moving forward, he went off of his core pathology that caused him to have difficulty in the next stage of life (Newsman,

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