crisis may end successfully or unsuccessfully, and it is a person's social environment and interaction with people in it that determine if they proceed appropriately. If a person is able to make it through one stage with that appropriate outcome, they will have a greater time achieving success in the next crisis they are faced with. (Huitt, 1997 p. 1)
             The first crisis within Erikson's developmental stages is trust versus mistrust. If a child from birth to eighteen months can undergo this crisis successfully, their caregiver has met his or her needs consistently and appropriately, and the child will develop a tendency to trust others. They will also obtain a stable and secure foundation for battling the next crisis. From eighteen months to three years of age, the child is in the stage of autonomy versus shame and doubt. The child must develop a sense of doing things on their own, or they may fell worthless or shameful. From three to six or seven years, the child is emerged within the industry versus inferiority stage. If this stage is successful, they will advance to identity achievement versus role confusion, in their adolescence through young adulthood years. During this period the identity concern reache
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