Question

In contrast to other psychoanalytic theorists who focused almost exclusively on parent-child relationships, ________ argued that friends are also important in shaping the development of children and adolescents.

Answer 1

The answer is Henry Stack Sullivan (1953). In difference to other psychoanalytic theorists who focused almost exclusively on parent-child relationships, Sullivan contended that friends are significant in influencing the development of children and adolescents. In addition, the developmental changes in self-disclosing conversations of Sullivan upsurge melodramatically with associates whereas decreasing in a similarly melodramatic fashion with parents.