Case Study - Holly Young Adulthood (19-40 years) Holly is currently in the early adulthood lifespan stage; during this stage Erikson believes that the basic conflict is Intimacy vs. ... It is clear that Holly has missed out on important developmental life stages such as her early adulthood due to becoming a mother at eighteen years of age. ... Case Study - Jack Young Adulthood (19-40 years) Jack is nearing the end of his young adulthood. ... Holly's Parents Middle adulthood (40-66 years) Holly's parents are aged fifty-five and sixty meaning that they are both in their middle adult...

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Many children who experience abuse (particularly those from low income families) are eventually taken away from their abuser and brought into the foster care program. ... In those families are mothers who have had an extreme experience of child abuse which led to psychological distress in adulthood, and which contributed to them abusing their own children. ... "Elevated mental health problems have similarly been found for children whose parents experience substance abuse" (Lindsey et al., 2008, p. 80). ...

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Locke and Newcomb (2004) state that, "Adverse childhood experiences influence later drug use. ... Indeed, the bad effects of alcoholic parents became apparent long before adulthood, as examined by Berkowitz and Perkins (1988), which demonstrated that adolescent children of alcoholics had already shown signs of greater self-depreciation. ...

• Word Count: 1381
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