Developmental Task Cs

DEVELOPMENTAL TASK Robert Havighurst’s Developmental Task Robert Havighurst believed that learning is basic to life and that people continue to learn through out life. He defines a developmental task as a task which arises at or about a certain period in the life of an individual, successful achievement of these tasks leads to his happiness and to success and later tasks, while failure leads to unhappiness in the individual, disapproval by society and difficulty in later tasks. Miss Maymona Jaire, a 53 year old female, belongs to the middle age group of Havighurst’s developmental task theory. According to this theory, the following task must be achieved to attain happiness and success of later tasks. 1. Achieving adult civic and social responsibility 2. Establishing and maintaining an economic standard of living. 3. Assisting teenage children become responsible and happy adults. 4. Developing adult leisure-time activities. 5. Relating oneself to one's spouse as a person. 6. Accepting and adjusting to the physiologic changes of middle age. 7. Adjusting to aging parents. Ms. Jaire has been a single blessed lady and has been living on her own away from her family. She had maintained an economic standard of living for herself and would sometimes help her family especially her siblings and father. She works as a domestic helper abroad. Her leisure time activities include watching television, and going to parks and place of worship and if her masters would go on a tour, they would bring her with them. As a single blessed lady, the only way she could relate to other is through her work but not going into an intimate relationship. In their family it is also a common practice to be single. She was able to adjusts to physiologic changes by

consulting to medical specialist every year or when ever she will go back here in the Philippines to have her vacation. Also while she was still in abroad she used to consult medical doctors there to consult and monitor her hypertension.

She had accepted the responsibility of watching their

properties if she can or while she will be on vacation. At the time of her attack, what really stressed her a lot is the incident of demolition in their area. Their house is one of those that to be removed and its their ancestral home. Based on Havighurst's Developmental Task Theory, the client has been able to cope up efficiently and effectively to the tasks necessary for her age though she was not able to have a partner in life. Erik Erikson Stages of Development Erik Erikson envisions life as a sequence of levels of achievement. Each stage signals a task that must be achieved. The resolution of the task can be complete, partial or unsuccessful. Erikson believes that the greater the task achievement, the healthier the personality of the person; failure to achieve a task influences the person’s ability to achieve the next task. Our patient is at the stage of adulthood (ages 25- 65 years old) which has a central task of achieving generativity versus stagnation. She achieved her task for she had develop a positive resolution as evidenced by creativity, productivity, and her concern for others. She has a stable job abroad, was able to help her parents and siblings financially and though she does not have a partner in life. She is not that self centered individual. While she was in the hospital, her sisters and nieces and nephew would always check on her status. Even her sister abroad has a great concern for her, evidence that she is good to them. With this task according to Erikson, our patient, Ms. Jaire had achieved a positive resolution.