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Crisis
Crisis is defined as a critical time or climate for an organization in which the outcome to a decision has extreme consequences. It is defined, also as a dramatic emotional or circumstantial upheaval in a person's life. In Psychosocial theory , this usually refers to a normal set of stresses and strains rather than to an extraordinary set of events, and it consists of a period of role experimentation and active decision making among alternative choices.
To Erikson, Crisis is the turning point faced at each developmental stage .
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