Steven enters the school psychologist’s office with a frown, grumbling to himself. His teacher, Ms. Marta, has suggested that he visit the school psychologist for help understanding and treating his academic problems. Steven is a bright fifth grader, but he has great difficulties reading and his mathematics skills lag far behind those of his peers. Ms. Marta contacts Steven’s mother, reassuring her that the school has extraordinary resources for diagnosing children’s learning problems and special education professionals who can intervene and help children overcome learning difficulties. The school psychologist interviews Steven’s mother to compile a history of Steven’s development. Through this interview he learns that Steven suffered a great deal of trauma early in life; as an infant, he was physically abused by his biological mother, then taken away and placed in foster care. At age 3, he was adopted into a middle-class, suburban family with two older, non-adopted children. As we have seen, each developmental theory has a unique emphasis. How might each theory explain Steven’s academic difficulties? psychoanalytic perspective.
Steven enters the school psychologist’s office with a frown, grumbling to himself. His teacher, Ms. Marta, has suggested that he visit the school psychologist for help understanding and treating his academic problems. Steven is a bright fifth grader, but he has great difficulties reading and his mathematics skills lag far behind those of his peers. Ms. Marta contacts Steven’s mother, reassuring her that the school has extraordinary resources for diagnosing children’s learning problems and special education professionals who can intervene and help children overcome learning difficulties.
The school psychologist interviews Steven’s mother to compile a history of Steven’s development. Through this interview he learns that Steven suffered a great deal of trauma early in life; as an infant, he was physically abused by his biological mother, then taken away and placed in foster care. At age 3, he was adopted into a middle-class, suburban family with two older, non-adopted children.
As we have seen, each developmental theory has a unique emphasis. How might each theory explain Steven’s academic difficulties?
- psychoanalytic perspective.
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