Human Development

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Human Development
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• Knowledge of human development
• identify abuse and/or neglect
• accurately assess all family members strengths
  and challenges
• develop effective plans with families that will
  result in safe and permanent homes for children

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Section Objectives

• Upon completion of this module, you will
• Have a beginning appreciation for the importance
  of using knowledge of human development in
  assessment and planning.
• You will understand the term normal
  development.
• You will know the 4 domains of development.
• You will have a beginning knowledge of
  development infancy-adolescence.
• You will know how to access information on human
  development.

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Child Development

• You must know the markers of normal child
  development.
• So, how do we define and identify normal
  development?

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Normal Development

• Normal represents what is typical or expected
  for the majority of children. We determine what
  is normal child development by
• observing a representative group of children,
• identifying the traits and behaviors displayed by
  most of these children,
• determining the time frames for the emergence of
  each trait or behavior.

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Normal Development Walking
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Age of Walking
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Months
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Normal Development

• It is important to look at the childs
  development in 4 domains
• Physical
• Cognitive
• Social
• Emotional

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Domains

• Physical
• body structure
• motor skills
• sensory skills
• ability to apply motor sensory skills

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Domains

• Cognitive thinking, memory, reasoning, concept
  development, problem solving, abstract thinking,
  language

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Domains

• Social interactions with other people and with
  groups of people relationships, attachment,
  developing social and moral values

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Domains

• Emotional personal identity, self-esteem,
  trust, autonomy, feeling and emotions that are
  appropriate for age and situation

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• For a more in-depth descriptions of the domains,
  click here.

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Normal Development
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Normal Development Birth-3 yrs.

• Important milestones to be reached
• physical (walking, balance),
• cognitive (object permanence, symbolic thought),
• social (attachment, parallel play), and
• emotional (basic trust, mental model of the
  world) milestones are reached.
• Below are the links to more in-depth descriptions
  of development from birth to 3 years of age and
  red flags that may indicate serious problems.
• Infant Birth to 18 months
• Toddler 18 months to 3 years Greg
  info to be linked is
  being developed
• Red Flags

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Normal Development 3-6

• Normal Development 3-6
• Red Flags

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Normal Development 6-12

• Normal Development 6-12
• Red Flags

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Normal Development Adolescence

• Adolescent Development
• Red Flags

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Brain Development

• Recent research findings have cast a bright light
  on various facets of brain development. The
  research clearly shows that environmental
  experiences play a significant role in
  determining how a childs brain grows and
  develops. What happens to a child from birth
  through adolescence makes a huge difference in
  brain development.
• The attached paper clearly explains the
  importance of experiences during the first years
  of life!

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23 years old, going on 16?
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• Its easy for us to work with clients to develop
  a plan that makes sense to us it would work for
  us without taking into account that the client
  may not be where we are, developmentally
• we can think through the likely consequences of
  behaviors
• we can put off getting something we want
• we can consider other peoples feelings
• We must recognize that people of the same age are
  not always in the same place developmentally!
• So, if your client is 23 going on 16, use what
  you know about adolescent behavior in the
  relevant domain. Here is a link to descriptions
  of the adult stages of development.

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Quiz (Development)Circle the most accurate
answer based on this preservice module.

• We determine what is normal child development
  by observing a representative group of children,
  determining the time frames for the emergence of
  each trait or behavior and
• Identifying the average occurrence of the trait.
• Identifying the most significant behavioral
  change.
• determining the cohort group for the emergence of
  each trait or behavior.
• identifying the traits and behaviors displayed by
  most of these children

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• The ability to apply motor sensory skills is an
  example of the _______ domain.
• Physical
• Emotional
• Social
• Cognitive
• The research clearly shows that environmental
  experiences play a significant role in
  determining how a childs brain grows and
  develops.
• True
• False