Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Psychology Paper

Describe your personal development through the lifespan. Write a 5-7 page paper describing key people and events that influenced your development from childhood through the present. Apply course concepts and material to explain and interpret your social, emotional, and cognitive development. In addition, include citations and references relative to one of the original theorists we study this semester.

In your paper you should describe:

The major developmental theory you chose, it’s theorist, and the tenets of the theory;

The applicability of the theory, as it relates, to your own development paying attention to different stages of development;

Current/former people/events that profoundly influenced your developmental processes;

• Include current research examples that support or refute your assertions; attempt to further clarify or refine them; use the theory in practical clinical approaches

Then you should describe in your own words:

• Why and how you feel the theory is practical or useful in counseling today

Anything else you think might be useful to the reader