Round Table Presents:The Adolescent Black Male's struggle for Identity and Power

Host by Tribes of Aboriginal Nations. We will be discussing the psychosocial stages theory created by Erik Eriksonan an ego psychologist and the role of culture and society and the conflicts that can take place within the ego itself. Erik Eriksonan proposed a lifespan model of development, taking in five stages up to the age of 18 years and three further stages beyond, well into adulthood. Erikson suggests that there is still plenty of room for continued growth and development throughout one’s life, but put a great deal of emphasis on the adolescent period, feeling it was a crucial stage for developing a person’s identity.

We will take this journey down memory lane together taking a deep look at these development stage, where we are coming up short throught the five stages leading up to the adolescent stage where in which we will aim a mojority of our focus. Our hopes is that we can bring some empowerment that will encourage us to re-examine the way we talk, walk, think and raise ourselves as said black men!

Special Guess: 

Dr. Melinda Burdell