DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Table XVIII: Case Ordered Matrix of Phase 3 Features<br />
Name Phase 3 – Life Situation Phase 3: Experience and Identity<br />
Rachel Moves out of home, works as a teacher, then moves<br />
to California to do a PhD, joins the civil rights<br />
protests at Selmo<br />
Feels she has found a cause, a<br />
meaning, and is moving towards a<br />
new direction for life<br />
Mary<br />
Lynne<br />
Angela<br />
Violet<br />
Frances<br />
Camilla<br />
Gemma<br />
Dan<br />
George<br />
Neil<br />
Vern<br />
Takes time out to do a Masters in Transpersonal<br />
Psychology at Liverpool, takes up a variety of new<br />
ventures that reflect her passion for philosophy<br />
Goes into therapy and joins a poetry group, starts to<br />
explore herself and her emotions<br />
Reads self-help books and reviews her life so far in<br />
order to search for a future<br />
Firstly tries to make sense of her past, and then<br />
registers for a BA in Fine Art, while reading a lot<br />
Trains as an English teacher, moves to Turkey, reignites<br />
old friendships<br />
Gets onto a psychology degree and trains for a<br />
marathon<br />
Does counsellor training to pursue her passion for<br />
people and for the career she never had, explores her<br />
sexuality<br />
After severe six months of depression, does a course<br />
in plumbing and trains to be a teacher<br />
Does a psychology degree to follow passion of being<br />
a psychologist, moves away from old friends and old<br />
hedonistic life<br />
Trains to become a life coach, hedonistic period,<br />
spiritual search<br />
Goes into therapy, failed fresh start in new job, seeks<br />
self-understanding<br />
Realisation of possibility in life<br />
and self<br />
Feels open to new parts of herself<br />
and more creative<br />
A sense of “paring back the layers”<br />
of herself to discover who she was<br />
Reviewing her life, developing<br />
intuition and contact with feelings<br />
Rebuilding confidence and<br />
independence<br />
Growing sense of productiveness<br />
and assertiveness<br />
Experience of possibility and<br />
experimentation, sense of hope<br />
Sense of new balance, new hope<br />
and new focus on the future, as<br />
well as family<br />
New focus on balance, meaning<br />
and vocation<br />
Sense of irresponsible fun, then<br />
replaced by spiritual search<br />
Dismantling the façade<br />
Leon N.A. N.A.<br />
Guy Starts dancing regularly and reading science,<br />
explores spirituality and Quabbalah<br />
Trying to express himself, a sense<br />
of hope and excitement<br />
Ben Explore his passions for art and music, considers A sense of thrashing around<br />
career as art historian.<br />
Jack Goes into therapy, reads Freud, seeks selfunderstanding<br />
A sense of embarking on a “quest”<br />
and a “new world”<br />
Victoria Moves to the UK, takes up courses in English,<br />
explores new foods and travels<br />
Initially held back by boyfriend,<br />
but then experimental opening<br />
Claire N.A. N.A.<br />
Lilly Questions self and aims, decides she wants more<br />
than conventional family and job. Works on<br />
relationship with mother<br />
A sense of “navelgazing” and selfreflection,<br />
and a desire for<br />
harmony<br />
Frank<br />
Mark<br />
Rob<br />
Hedonistic phase, takes up writing, starts own<br />
business, explores self and gender, emphasis on<br />
emotional openness<br />
Goes freelance, then does a chef course, then does a<br />
masters in organisational behaviour<br />
Intense period of examining self, does freelance<br />
work, therapy, starting psychotherapy course,<br />
spiritual searching<br />
A sense of “screw the rules” and<br />
hedonistic fun, focus on emotion<br />
Oscillation between excitement<br />
and disappointment, as new<br />
ventures are started and fail<br />
A sense of “awakening” to new<br />
potentialities within him, searching<br />
for meaning<br />
277