need help with psychology assessment. relating to erikson, maslow, and rodgers.?

Question

this need to be in relation to a young person with an aggressive and withdrawn behaviour. also need to relate to nature/nurture debate on twin studies with relevance to the above and evaluate it.
in relation to death of a parent and being put into care by mother but keeping brothers at home and apply a psychological theory to the above

Answer 1

Your question is quite complex. Maybe this website can help: http://www.ahpweb.org/
Good luck.

Answer 2

Rogers (no d) created the Person-Centred Approach (PCA), which, as its name implies, focuses on the person not the problem. He would invite the young person (client) to talk, to share, and do all he could to empathise and indeed create all the 6 necessary conditions for beneficial change. By expressin his feelings and being accepted by his counsellor, the boy will prospectively discover that he wants to be more peaceful and connective, because what Rogers calls his "actualising tendency" -- his natural desire to grow and become more fully his best self -- will be evoked.

You can therefore say (though I don't think Rogers concerned himself with this) that everyone's actualising tendency is part of their "nature", whereas the obstacles that this youth finds to expressing it wholesomely are influenced by his "nurture". Another child with a different personality will respond differently to apparently similar circumstances. In the PCA, the facts (being put into care, being separated from his brothers) are not intrinsically "the cause of" the youth's behaviours, but if the boy received them as distressing and traumatic then for him they ARE (or were) distressing and traumatic, in HIS "frame of reference". In the PCA, you work within the client's frame of reference. His behaviours may then be understood as his way of coping with, reacting to, telling the world about, etc, his sense of trauma and/or distress, and you, as counsellor, may possibly be able to facilitate him to explore other ways of communicating, or of discovering what he really wants (love, perhaps?) and getting that fulfilled.

Sorry, I can't speak to the other two theorists you mention.

Answer 3

you are in the wrong place!