During this period a child will be developing the skills they think they will need in life and that fit their identity. From grownups in our life we gain options as to how we will structure our world. The decisions made in this stage are based on the decisions made in the early stage and so the skills and structure they develop are the ones the child sees relevant for their identity. Observing children at this stage we notice that at times they are alternatively helpful and compliant and at others testing. In fact they are testing their identity against the structures in their life to prove the validity of their decisions.

1. Skills
Cycles of Development

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. “For all things we have
to learn before we can
do them, we learn by
doing them.”
Aristotle

4. Cycles of development
Stage5
• Stage : Skills.
• Duration : 6 – 12 years.
• Activity - During this period a child will
be developing the skills they think they
will need in life and that fit their identity.
From grownups in our life we gain
options as to how we will structure our
world. The decisions made in this stage
are based on the decisions made in the
early stage and so the skills and
structure they develop are the ones the
child sees relevant for their identity.
Observing children at this stage we
notice that at times they are
alternatively helpful and compliant and
at others testing. In fact they are testing
their identity against the structures in
their life to prove the validity of their
decisions.

5. Cycles of development
Stage5

6. Cycles of development
Stage 5
Compromise Recycling After twelve years, Stage 5
is significant
Failure to acquire
significant skills or
values will limit us as
adults. For
example, lack of a
family structure, or
clear family
values, or good role
models.
Returning to this stage is about
updating internal
structures, questioning, and
relearning how to do things. We
explore new values, ideas and
behaviours. We may try on new
social roles as we let go of old
ones; making mistakes and feeling
awkward or clumsy is part of this.
We may seek contact with people
outside our usual circle of family or
friends: peer groups and same sex
relationships are major themes.
We are concerned with defining
reality, dealing with
authority, arguing and judging, and
rethinking what is appropriate for
our gender.
• After updating our
identity.
• When learning new
skills.
• When changing cultures
and
• When caring for a six to
twelve-year-old.

7. Cycles of development
Clues for returning to Skills
• Needing to be part of a “gang” or group—or
only functioning well as a loner.
• Needing to be king or queen of the hill.
• Not understanding the relevance of rules;
not understanding the freedom that rules
can bestow.
• Unwillingness to examine personal values or
morals.
• Trusting the thinking of the group more than
one’s own thinking and intuition.
• Expecting to have to do things without
knowing how, finding out, or being taught
how.
• Being reluctant to learn new things or be
productive.

8. Summary of Skill stage
• Ego state : Parent.
• Activity : Structuring, developing skills.
• Functional Metaphor : Regulator.
• Psychoanalytic equivalent : Latency.
• Needs : Experience in doing things, independence.
• Problem solving procedure : Dress up.
• Games : Court room, Aint it awful, Blemish.
• Mechanism : Exclusion.
• Injunctions : Don’t think, Just do it, Don’t
structure.

9. References

10. Thank You

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