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The first stage of Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development is the Trust Vs. Mistrust stage. This stage typically begins at the child's birth and lasts until they are one year of age. Trust Vs. Mistrust is when the infant trusts and depends on their caregiver. The child has trust that the parent will help their needs. The person that I studied solved this stage by fully depending on her parents and she did not develop any mistrust with her caregivers. The person that I reviewed, who was named Cassie, said that their parents would tell stories of how she was really close to her parents when she was young and would consistently depend on them. This trust allowed for her to have a healthy and dependable relationship with her caregivers. Page 54 of the book states, "In these early months, babies need to develop a balance between trust which lets them form intimate relationships, and mistrust, which enables them to protect themselves." This quote shows how the previous care to build the trust between Cassie and her caregiver allowed her to build significant relations later in her life.

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The second of stage of development is the Autonomy Vs. Doubt stage. This stage occurs when the child is one to three years old. Overall, this stage is when the child begins have a sense of control of their actions. To overcome this stage, the caregivers of Cassie allowed her to gain her independence in her choices. Specifically, they allowed her to have independence with her clothing options. While this is not the biggest crisis, this was a big changing point of independence during this stage. The resolution of this stage was giving Cassie the opportunity to have her own choices, which shaped her confidence and independence later in her life. When explaining Autonomy Vs. Doubt, page 55 of the book states, "As children are better able to make their wishes understood, they become more powerful and independent." The book later states on the same page, "Toddlers need adults to set appropriate limits, and shame and doubt help them recognize the need for those limits." These two quotes show the reasoning for having Cassie choose her clothing as a main solution to the second stage. This gives her a way to gain independence while being in a contained and safe setting.

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The third stage of Erikson's Development, Intiative Vs. Guilt, takes place when a child is 3-6 years old. This stage is when a child is faced with the opportunity to initiate different activities. This stage also includes the child feeling guilt, or being upset, when the child feels as though they made a bad decision. For example, one crisis that Cassie faced was when she had to choose between her friends and games when she was around six years old. This is an example of this development stage because all of the children were quite close in their neighborhood, and this situation caused several arguments between the friends. However, to solve this problem, Cassie and her other friend thought of the idea to fuse different games together to make everyone happy. While the children felt guilty about their arguments, in the end, they were able to solve the issue by creating an agreement that made everyone content with the situation. On page 72, the book explains how the development of this stage occurs and why it is an important stage in a child's life. The book states, "Preschool children can do-and want to do-more and more. At the same time, they are learning that some of the things they want to do meet social approval, whereas others do not."

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The fourth stage of Erikson's Development occurs when the child is 6-11 years old. This stage is named the Industry Vs. Inferiority stage. During this stage, a child and go down one of two paths. The first path is when the child is beginning to learn to be productive and gain a work ethic towards goals. During this path, they can also take criticism and work to refine their products. The second path can lead to a child becoming discourged in their productiveness and this can lead to negative effects on how the child views themself. When Cassie was 9 years old, she was very active in clubs at her school. During this time, she had joined an art competition as she loved to draw. However, she did not place during this art competition, and was extremely discouraged from creating any art projects. After this event, it took about a year for her to not feel embarassed or upset when creating art. To resolve this situation, she slowly regained her passion for creating art projects, and put a work ethic in gaining the love back for her art. The book states during page 93, "According to Erikson, a major determinant of self-esteem is children's view of their capacity for productive work, which develops in his fourth stage of psychosocial development: industry versus Inferiority." This quote gives an explanation of how Cassie's self-esteem was extremely diminished after not winning the art competition, she was able to gain some confidence back by slowly working to improve on her art.

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Identity Vs. Confusion is the fifth stage of Erikson's Development stages. This stage occurs when during the ages of twelve and eighteen. This stage is when independence and learning how to function with just yourself becomes a main focus. In the fifth stage, a child figures out their beliefs and goals, and this is only influenced by themselves and not by others around them. The main crisis during this stage was Cassie trying to understand who she was as a young woman. She stated that she had to shuffle through her parent's beliefs and her brothers around her, and she had to figure out who she was. To do this, Cassie ended up moving out of her house right after high school, and built her own identity. This was her way of figuring out and growing up in a way that solved this crisis. The book stated on page 109, "The effort to make sense of the self is part of a healthy process that builds on the achievements of earlier stages-on trust, autonomy, initiative, and industry-and lays the groundwork for coping with the challenges of adult life." This quote explains the importance of finding the true self, and this makes sure that they find out who they are independently.

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The sixth stage of Erikson's psychosocial development is Intimacy Vs. Isolation. This stage is during young adulthood, which is approximately during the ages nineteen and forty. This stage is primarily focused on personal relations with others. During this stage, a person can build lasting relationships with others, or be in isolation by themselves. On page 14, the book states, "Person seeks to make commitments to others or may suffer from isolation and self-absorption." This quote is important for the crisis during Cassie's young adulthood. Cassie had her first child when she was 20, and started building a family very young. This boosted her opportunity to form intimate relations with her family, and everyone remained quite close. Cassie met her future husband when they were in high school, and they remained together, and are still together now at forty-two years old. During her life, she was always able to keep and maintain close relations with others around her, and never suffered through any type of isolation or self-absorption.

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Generativity Vs. Stagnation is the seventh stage in Erikson's Psychosocial Development. This is during middle adulthood when the adult is between the ages of forty and sixty-five. To describe this stage, it is the lasting impact that an adult has on the world. This is when the adults leave behind their mark. The impression that the person leaves behind can be both positive and negative. The adult can be positive and can even contribute to aspects of the world, or they can be in an unproductive state of being. Both have their own end products of the same stage. Page 14 of the book states, "Mature adult is concerned with establishing and guiding the next generation or else feels personal impoverishment." This quote is primarily describing that negative and positive impacts that an adult can leave behind. To solve a crisis during this stage, and leave a positive impacta person can work on helping the word. For example, charity is a way to be helpful to others and leave a positive impact on the world. The charity does not only have to be money, it can be something as simple as donating clothes. There are several ways to make your mark on a world, but it is up to the person to decide whether or not this is a positive or negative impact.

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The eighth and final stage of Erikson's stages of development is Integrity Vs. Despair. This stage approximately begins at 65 years old and continues until the person's death. During most people's lifetime, this stage is where someone may start reflecting on the life that they had. This is where integrity and despair become important. A person may reflect that they lived their life with integrity and respect, which is the positive outcome, or they may reflect that they lived their life with sadness and negative emotions. Overall, this final stage is when a person reviews the life that they have led. On page 14, the book states an overview of what this stage fully encompasses. The book states, "Elderly person achieves acceptance of own life, allowing acceptance of death, or else despairs over inability to relive life." To solve a crisis in this stage, a person must be able to fully reflect and be honest with the life that they have led. They must be willing to accept all the good and bad times that happened during this life. When they do this, they can learn to embrace death and be prepared to leave the world. While it can be a scary thing, acceptance is very important in this last stage and allowing for a full reflection can lead to a positive solution to this stage.