If a person fails to accomplish this developmental task satisfactorily, borderline pathology can emerge . " In the borderline personality organization ", Kernberg found'dissociated ego states that result from the use of " splitting " defences '.
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In this regard, male adolescents seem to have problems coping with these developmental tasks to an increasing extent ( " Health Risks and Developmental Transitions in Adolescence ", together with Schulenberg and Maggs, Cambridge University Press 1997 ).
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Those are a lot of developmental tasks to face in the space of a decade or less, he noted, and it is no surprise that adolescents are moodier than younger children, or that high school can be a very daunting place.
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This impacts on the mastering of developmental tasks in the areas of education and qualification; the separation from parents and the development of own attachments; the acquisition of competencies as a consumer, economic citizen, and user of leisure time; and participation in politics and society.
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One of a child's earliest developmental tasks is to learn about cause and effect, where baby does something and sees an immediate result : She smiles and Daddy smiles back; he shakes a rattle and there's a noise; she kicks a mobile and it moves.
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At the same time, that inner child feeling also manifests in the times when we feel angry, alone or confused-- thereby becomingthe source of our faulty behavior . Faulty behavior is triggered by painful experiences that have stunted one's ability to complete " developmental tasks ."
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"Intimacy is a big developmental task for this age group, " said Kathy Reese, director of counseling and psychological services at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill ., who was perplexed that her 24-year-old daughter, a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, dated so little in college.
