Case: A 10-year-old boy named Matthew presents to you three months into the school year. His chief complaint is feeling uncomfortable in school because his classmates are all smarter than he is. He has been refusing to go to school.

1. Describe Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages.

2. Describe the stage that you think Matthew is in and the developmental tasks of this stage.

3. How might the resolution of the previous developmental stage contribute to this presentation of symptoms?

Please used the following to answer the three questions separately.

Please refer to the following textbooks:
Ryckman (2013). Chapter 6: Erikson’s psychoanalytic ego psychology (pp. 121-149).

Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz (2015), (Chapter 4.2, pp. 167-174)