Reforming Moral Misbehaviour

Charles, .; Blakeney, Ronnie Ann

doi:10.1080/0305724900190204

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Growing Pains: A Theory of Stress and Moral Conflict

Blakeney¹,

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1992

Counseling and Values

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This article outlines a relationship between the crises that create stress in our lives and periods of instability in moral development. Stressful issues, we suggest, are more difficult to resolve during periods of developmental instability. When problems are most stressful we often experience the impact of that stress physiologically. The physiological symptoms of stress, we argue, reflect unresolved problems in primary relationships that occurred during the early (sensorimotor) developmental stages when feelings are experienced physiologically. In this way the physiological symptoms of stress become a metaphoric map for the developmental resolution of moral issues. Thus, stress and its symptoms, rather than becoming debilitating, can be reconstructed as “Growing Pains.”

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