In my placement I am in a locality centre which works with individuals with a variety of different needs. They work alongside the families of the individuals to ensure that they can meet all the needs if it is able to happen. On a daily basis clients are picked up from their home or meet the worker and they go on to do activities which will benefit them, which they have been choosing for themselves. Most of the clients suffer from autism in some way or have mobility issues, all of the clients require different amount of support. The centre try and create groups from individuals which they fell will work well together and are interested in the same activities and allow them to meet first and ensure that they do get on before taking them into different places. My role is to assist other members of staff while out with clients. I assist clients to their clubs and groups on a daily basis in the placement. One of the main individuals which I work with has childhood autism. The lady struggles with basic day to day activities such as communicating and being able to express the …show more content…
The theory on life stages relates well to my situation as it works through all the stages in life that we should be at and when we should achieve these by. Erikson’s theory works well as I have looked into five stages of the user’s life from infancy to older adulthood. While looking into this I realized that she is meeting the stages but not when they should be getting meet. For each stage it is a build onto the previous stage and cannot meet one stage without the one before. Erikson believes that a person’s personality does develop in a series of stages the theory described the impacts of social experiences throughout the whole lifespan. Erikson was intrigued by how social interaction and the way relationships plays a role in the development and the growth of us as a