The child development theories put forward by both Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson have had substantial impacts on contemporary child psychology, early childhood education, and play therapy. In this essay, I aim to highlight the contribution of these two theorists in their study of various developmental stages, the differences and similarities in their theories, and their contributions to the theory and practice of play therapy. Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland in 1896. His interest
Consequently, Manderscheid et al (2010) defined mental illness as conditions affecting cognition, emotion and behaviour, thus resulting in a parallel transitional focus from mental illness stigma to recognising the significance of mental health to the overall well-being. Mental illness turns the life of an individual upside down when it strikes, supporting this is
various anthropologists in different ways but with common elements that have peculiarity to every definition given. There are two of such anthropologists (Kroeber and Kluckhohn, 1974) they critically reviewed concepts and definitions of culture and compiled a list of 164 different definitions. They defined culture as consisting of patterns implicit and explicit of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted symbols, consists the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiment in artifact
This is done from both the Gethenian perspective and Ai’s own. About the Gethenian one, the author has explained that it was one of her thought experiments – what would a society look like if the population was largely asexual? One of her conclusions, albeit one that stands on shaky ground, is