Lcsw study guide Exam 2025
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Oral - ✔✔(0-1) Focus is on the mouth, weaning. First stage of development where libido
is centered in a baby's mouth. It gets much satisfaction from putting all sorts of things in
its mouth to satisfy libido, & thus it demands. At this stage in life ate oral, or mouth
orientated, such as sucking, biting, breast-feeding.(ingestion, eating)
Anal - ✔✔(1-3 yrs) Hold on/let go; toilet training. The libido now become's focused on
the anus & the child derives great pleasure from defecating. The child is now fully
aware that they are a person in their own right & that their wishes can bring them into
conflict with the demands of the outside world.(potty training)
Phallic - ✔✔(3-6 yrs) Oedipal/Electra conflict.Sensitivity now becomes concentrated in
the genitals. The child becomes aware of anatomical sex differences. This is also the
stage in which the process of identification which involves the child adopting the
characteristics of the same sex parent is seen.(gender identity)
Latency - ✔✔(6-12yrs) Reduced libidinal energy; focus is on social skills & academics.
No further psychosexual development takes place during this stage. Freud thought that
most sexual impulses are repressed during the latent stage & sexual energy can be
sublimated towards school work, hobbies & friendships.(school, same sex partners)
Genital Stage - ✔✔(12+yrs) Libido & affection combine to produce mature sexual
relationships. The last stage of Freuds psychosexual theory of personality development
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, & begins in puberty. It is a time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful
resolution of which is settling down in a loving one to one relationship with another in
our 20's or so. Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than self
pleasure during the phallic stage.(puerty)
Freud Stages of Development - ✔✔Each stage represents the fixation of libido (roughly
translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a different area of the body. As a person
grows physically certain areas of their body becomes important as sources of potential
frustration (erogenous zones), pleasure or both.
Jean Piaget - ✔✔Describes the development of knowledge. Cognitive development
stems from a drive toward cognitive equilibrium. The first to study children in a
scientific way, focused on how children learned. Stated that children go through four
stages of thinking that shape how they see & learn about the world. Developed a
comprehensive theory about the nature & development of human intelligence ( a theory
of cognitive development).
Erik Erickson - ✔✔Personality develop's through stages. Each stage include's a unique
psychological crisis. If that crisis is met in a positive way, the individual develops
maturity. Parents & other caregivers must be aware of a child's needs at particular stage
& be sensitive to the child's needs at the stage. Failure to properly master each step
leads to problems in the future.
Trust vs Mistrust - ✔✔(0-1)At this stage babies learn to trust that their parents will meet
their basic needs.(feeding)
Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt - ✔✔(2-3)As toddlers, children begin to develop
independence & start to learn that they can do some things on their own ( such as going
to the toilet). If a child is not encouraged properly at this age, he or she might develop
shame & doubt about their abilities.(toilet training)
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Oral - ✔✔(0-1) Focus is on the mouth, weaning. First stage of development where libido
is centered in a baby's mouth. It gets much satisfaction from putting all sorts of things in
its mouth to satisfy libido, & thus it demands. At this stage in life ate oral, or mouth
orientated, such as sucking, biting, breast-feeding.(ingestion, eating)
Anal - ✔✔(1-3 yrs) Hold on/let go; toilet training. The libido now become's focused on
the anus & the child derives great pleasure from defecating. The child is now fully
aware that they are a person in their own right & that their wishes can bring them into
conflict with the demands of the outside world.(potty training)
Phallic - ✔✔(3-6 yrs) Oedipal/Electra conflict.Sensitivity now becomes concentrated in
the genitals. The child becomes aware of anatomical sex differences. This is also the
stage in which the process of identification which involves the child adopting the
characteristics of the same sex parent is seen.(gender identity)
Latency - ✔✔(6-12yrs) Reduced libidinal energy; focus is on social skills & academics.
No further psychosexual development takes place during this stage. Freud thought that
most sexual impulses are repressed during the latent stage & sexual energy can be
sublimated towards school work, hobbies & friendships.(school, same sex partners)
Genital Stage - ✔✔(12+yrs) Libido & affection combine to produce mature sexual
relationships. The last stage of Freuds psychosexual theory of personality development
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, & begins in puberty. It is a time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful
resolution of which is settling down in a loving one to one relationship with another in
our 20's or so. Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than self
pleasure during the phallic stage.(puerty)
Freud Stages of Development - ✔✔Each stage represents the fixation of libido (roughly
translated as sexual drives or instincts) on a different area of the body. As a person
grows physically certain areas of their body becomes important as sources of potential
frustration (erogenous zones), pleasure or both.
Jean Piaget - ✔✔Describes the development of knowledge. Cognitive development
stems from a drive toward cognitive equilibrium. The first to study children in a
scientific way, focused on how children learned. Stated that children go through four
stages of thinking that shape how they see & learn about the world. Developed a
comprehensive theory about the nature & development of human intelligence ( a theory
of cognitive development).
Erik Erickson - ✔✔Personality develop's through stages. Each stage include's a unique
psychological crisis. If that crisis is met in a positive way, the individual develops
maturity. Parents & other caregivers must be aware of a child's needs at particular stage
& be sensitive to the child's needs at the stage. Failure to properly master each step
leads to problems in the future.
Trust vs Mistrust - ✔✔(0-1)At this stage babies learn to trust that their parents will meet
their basic needs.(feeding)
Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt - ✔✔(2-3)As toddlers, children begin to develop
independence & start to learn that they can do some things on their own ( such as going
to the toilet). If a child is not encouraged properly at this age, he or she might develop
shame & doubt about their abilities.(toilet training)
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