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Trust Vs. Mistrust: A Central Development Task Of An Infant

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STAGE 1 TRUST VS MISTRUST
Birth to 1-year-old
Trust vs mistrust, a central development task of an infant. This is throughout an infant’s whole first year of life. Infants cannot meet needs on their own, so they rely on adults in their lives, mostly their parents to show them that they can trust people.
With family being the vital key role in this stage, if infants are properly loved, cared for and feel safe, they will develop a sense of trust in themselves and in others. If infants do not have a safe, healthy, and trusting environment, they will grow up with a sense of mistrust, fear, anger, and insecurity for everyone in the world in which they are growing in. If infants are handled harshly or with neglect, they will not have much trust in adults (Berk, 2016, p16). …show more content…

You don't have to do these things to instill trust in your infant. Another way of earning trust from an infant is to leave them with another trusting adult, making the infant wonder if you are coming back and when you do come back, that infant holds a bigger trust for this parent.
The crisis in the stage is trust versus mistrust, with a virtue of hope. An infant’s hope for the love and care they need to learn to trust someone. Establishing this basic trust is a must to help make happy, confident and trusting adults one day. This is the first major step to all eight of Erickson's'

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