Crisis Experience

A typically developing 10-year-old becomes trapped, unable to move, in an inaccessible location. It takes rescuers over 10 hours to find and rescue the child from the location.

1) Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

     a) This assignment uses a grading rubric .

     b) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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2) Include the following in your paper:

     a) Discuss how the child cognitively and emotionally responds during the confinement

          i) from Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage perspective

          ii) from Erickson’s psychosocial perspective

      b) Discuss how this experience may affect the child as he/she ages through childhood and into adulthood.