Developmental tasks

Part Three deals with some of the practical issues that you will need to confront in undertaking a developmental task or project - first at the level of the organization, then the group or team, and finally you as m Individual trying to get something done. 

A major form of psychopathology understood by Western psychology is that resulting from failures at these developmental tasks. Thus from the developmental failure perspective, the neurotic doesn t know how to make friends or feel comfortable around other people or hold a... 

Although this encapsulation-grade EVA has been favorably received by the industry, Its status Is still considered to be experimental. To advance EVA, several developmental tasks remain to be completed ... 

The rest of this section briefly describes each mindset of the DMIS and notes the developmental task most appropriate for the readiness level of the audience. 

The developmental task is to acquaint these individuals with their own cultural patterns. Many intercultural professionals include such topics in their diversity work, such as nonverbal behavior, communication styles, values, interaction rituals, conflict styles, cognitive styles, and learning styles. (Topics such as identity development, stereotyping, privilege, gender, power, and prejudice are best promoted in the ethnorelative/difference-seek-ing mindsets.) These topics draw from many disciplines, but all are employed in the examination of meaning making. 

Kindermann TA. 1993. Fostering independence in mother-child interactions Longitudinal changes in contingency patterns as children grow competent in developmental tasks. Int J Behav Dev 16 513-535. 

Schools hold the ultimate responsibility of providing a safe environment for children. As human beings, safety is nnarguably one of our most fundamental needs. Most developmental theorists (e.g., Erikson, Maslow, Ainsworth, Bowlby) stress the importance of developing feelings of safety, security, and trust early on so that future milestones and developmental tasks may be achieved. This holds true to children in schools as well. As Stephens (2002) argued. 

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