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Psycho-social development outlines the stages and virtures the child growths through out their life.  It is not age specific, in birth - 2 years for instance, but considered the family's,cultural and societie's norms as well.  

As we know, growth is more of a spiral or cyclic, and moving though the stages is the same, it takes time, experiences, encouragement and reinforcment etc to support the child to learn key character traits.  If the child struggles to do so, then, that part of the development may be stunted or even underdeveloped.  

Emotional, relationship and identity development is key to creating a fullfilling and balanced, life, but then again, by whose definition?   We may have grown up in unsupportive environments, yet, now, we are responsible to create what we choose to live our life by.