It is during the teen years that adolescents start to pull away from their parents to find their own identities. There are many ways to approach the teaching of adolescent identity development, but the one focused on in this unit is the psychology of identity. Through the study of the 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development, a theory by Erik Erikson, and The 4 Statuses of James Marciaś Identity Theory, which adds on to and accompanies Erikso´s theory, students are able to determine in which stage a