LMSW EXAM REVISION SIMPLIFIED
SUMMARY
Trust vs. Mistrust
Birth-18months
Basic needs: The most importnat need at this stage is
safety
Resolve: Trusts someone will meet their needs
Unresolved: Baby will not make connection
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
18 month- 3years
Increased Independence: Motor & Communication skills
develop
Resolved: Sense of independece
Unresolved: sense of shame because they cannot achive
the skills alone
iniative vs guilt
3-6 years old
New experiences: Children begin to explore and branch
out from the parent
Resolved: Children take iniative and begin to take action
Unresolve: They become fearful, passive and withdrawn
Industry vs. Inferiority
7-11 yrs old
School: Chidlren begin to learn/navigatge school and
academic demans (school is their industry
Resolve: Mastery of tasks and feeling productive
Unresolved: Feeling inferiority to peers
identity vs. role confusion
,12-18 years
Peer Relations/Self Esteem: Sense of self is beginning to
form in relation to friends
Resolved: A sense of identity is formed: knowing who they
are
Unresolved: Not really knowing who you are
uncomfortable with self
Intimacy vs. Isolation
19-35 yrs
Relationship: Forming loving and intimate relationship with
others
Resolved: People will be able to develop intimacy and
lasting relationships
Unresolved: Isolation and inability to form relationships
Generativity vs. Stagnation
30-50 yrs
Parenting/Mentoring: Adults have the need to create or
nurture things. they want to feel accomplished and settled
in their personal and professional life
Resolved: Growing concern for the next generation
Unresolved: Sense of being stuck, selfish and uncaring
intergrity vs despair
50+- death
Reflection on life: Older adults need to look back on life
and feel a sense of fulfllment
Resolved: Feeling happy and satisfied with what they have
achieved
Unresolved: Sadness and regreat over yout life choices
and what you have accomplished
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
,1. Physcological Needs
2. Safety
3. Love and Belonging
4. Esteem
5. Self Actualization
Lawrence Kohlberg's: Pre Coventional
Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment (behaving to escape
punishment
Stage 2: Self Interest
Lawrence Kohlberg: Conventional
Stage 3: Interpersonal Accord and Conformity (The right
thing to do because others say so)
Stage 4: Maintaining Social Order
Lawrence Kohlberg: Post Conventional
Stage 5: Social Contract (what is good for other in the
community)
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principals
Jean Piaget: Sensorimotor stage
-ages 0-2
-Object Permanence: Object still exist even when we
cannot see them
Jean Piaget-Preoperational Stage
2 to 7 years old
Animism- giving object human characteristics
Magical thinking- Children think their thoughts cause
reality
Jean Piaget: Concrete Operational Stage
7-11 yrs old
Understanding number order
Conservation: Child see the same amount of liquid if two
, different size containers
Irreversibility: understading death is irreversible
Jean Piaget: Formal operational stage
11-18 yrs old
Begin to develop moral reasoning
Can think of answers to a hypothetical sitauation
Id
pleasure principle, the most immediat ena pleasurable
way possible
Super Ego
morality principle, supresses primitive impluses
Ego
resposible for our ability to think and make decisions
Oral Stage
0-18 months, pleasure centers on the mouth- sucking,
biting, chewing
Anal Stage
(18months- 3yrs) mastering toilet training
anal retentitive: extreme preasure from parents,
cleanliness
anal explusive: messy/disorganized, lacking toilet training
Phalli Stage
3-6 yrs old
Child explore their bodies including genitals
Females attraced to their father and boy attraced to their
moms
Latent Stage
6yrs- puberty
Labito suppressed
Child focus on school, hobbies and interacting with same
sex peers
SUMMARY
Trust vs. Mistrust
Birth-18months
Basic needs: The most importnat need at this stage is
safety
Resolve: Trusts someone will meet their needs
Unresolved: Baby will not make connection
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
18 month- 3years
Increased Independence: Motor & Communication skills
develop
Resolved: Sense of independece
Unresolved: sense of shame because they cannot achive
the skills alone
iniative vs guilt
3-6 years old
New experiences: Children begin to explore and branch
out from the parent
Resolved: Children take iniative and begin to take action
Unresolve: They become fearful, passive and withdrawn
Industry vs. Inferiority
7-11 yrs old
School: Chidlren begin to learn/navigatge school and
academic demans (school is their industry
Resolve: Mastery of tasks and feeling productive
Unresolved: Feeling inferiority to peers
identity vs. role confusion
,12-18 years
Peer Relations/Self Esteem: Sense of self is beginning to
form in relation to friends
Resolved: A sense of identity is formed: knowing who they
are
Unresolved: Not really knowing who you are
uncomfortable with self
Intimacy vs. Isolation
19-35 yrs
Relationship: Forming loving and intimate relationship with
others
Resolved: People will be able to develop intimacy and
lasting relationships
Unresolved: Isolation and inability to form relationships
Generativity vs. Stagnation
30-50 yrs
Parenting/Mentoring: Adults have the need to create or
nurture things. they want to feel accomplished and settled
in their personal and professional life
Resolved: Growing concern for the next generation
Unresolved: Sense of being stuck, selfish and uncaring
intergrity vs despair
50+- death
Reflection on life: Older adults need to look back on life
and feel a sense of fulfllment
Resolved: Feeling happy and satisfied with what they have
achieved
Unresolved: Sadness and regreat over yout life choices
and what you have accomplished
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
,1. Physcological Needs
2. Safety
3. Love and Belonging
4. Esteem
5. Self Actualization
Lawrence Kohlberg's: Pre Coventional
Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment (behaving to escape
punishment
Stage 2: Self Interest
Lawrence Kohlberg: Conventional
Stage 3: Interpersonal Accord and Conformity (The right
thing to do because others say so)
Stage 4: Maintaining Social Order
Lawrence Kohlberg: Post Conventional
Stage 5: Social Contract (what is good for other in the
community)
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principals
Jean Piaget: Sensorimotor stage
-ages 0-2
-Object Permanence: Object still exist even when we
cannot see them
Jean Piaget-Preoperational Stage
2 to 7 years old
Animism- giving object human characteristics
Magical thinking- Children think their thoughts cause
reality
Jean Piaget: Concrete Operational Stage
7-11 yrs old
Understanding number order
Conservation: Child see the same amount of liquid if two
, different size containers
Irreversibility: understading death is irreversible
Jean Piaget: Formal operational stage
11-18 yrs old
Begin to develop moral reasoning
Can think of answers to a hypothetical sitauation
Id
pleasure principle, the most immediat ena pleasurable
way possible
Super Ego
morality principle, supresses primitive impluses
Ego
resposible for our ability to think and make decisions
Oral Stage
0-18 months, pleasure centers on the mouth- sucking,
biting, chewing
Anal Stage
(18months- 3yrs) mastering toilet training
anal retentitive: extreme preasure from parents,
cleanliness
anal explusive: messy/disorganized, lacking toilet training
Phalli Stage
3-6 yrs old
Child explore their bodies including genitals
Females attraced to their father and boy attraced to their
moms
Latent Stage
6yrs- puberty
Labito suppressed
Child focus on school, hobbies and interacting with same
sex peers
