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The Resourceful Self: And a Little Child Shall Lead Them

The Resourceful Self: And a Little Child Shall Lead Them

Capps, Donald

Paperback

Child PsychologyChristian Living

ISBN10: 0718893905
ISBN13: 9780718893903
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Feb 26 2015
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A study inspired by the psychologist Erik Erikson, exploring how childhood emotional resources offer insight into Jesus's injunction to become like children.

Erik Erikson, best known for his life-cycle theory and concept of the identity crisis, proposed that we are comprised of a number of selves. In several earlier books, including 'At Home in the World', Donald Capps has suggested that the emotional separation of young children - especially boys - from their mothers results in the development of a melancholy self. In this book, Capps employs Erikson's assignment of an inherent strength to each stage of the life cycle and proposes that the life-enhancing strengths of the childhood years (hope, will, purpose, and competence) are central to the development of a resourceful self, and that this self counters the life-diminishing qualities of the melancholy self.

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