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    This document outlines the stages of child and adolescent development from pre-natal to late adulthood. It discusses growth, development, maturation and learning. Key factors that influence development are nature (heredity) and nurture (environmental influences). Development follows an orderly sequence and pattern from head to toe and center to periphery, but is unique to each individual through maturation and learning. The stages of life covered are pre-natal (germinal, embryonic, fetal), infancy, babyhood, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood.

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    CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT HANDOUTS

    GROWTH

    • Quantitative changes

    • May refer to increase in size, height, or weight and anything can be measured.

    DEVELOPMENT

    • Qualitative changes

    • Progression towards maturation

    MATURATION

    • ripening of behavior

    LEARNING

    • fruit from your experiences.

    • change in behavior from one’s experience

    FACTORS INFLUENCING GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

    1. NATURE - heredity

    2. NURTURE - environmental influences

    Principles of development

    1. Follows an orderly sequence which is predictable.

    Patterns of Physical Development

    ✓ Cephalocaudal

    ✓ Proximodistal

    2. Unique in each individual.

    3. It involves change.

    4. Early development is more critical than later development.

    5. Development is the product of maturation and learning.

    6. There are individual differences in development.

    7. Developmental Tasks ( Robert Havighurst) – social expectations

    STAGES OF LIFE

    I. PRE-NATAL STAGE - Before birth; during or relating to pregnancy

    3 PERIODS OF PRE-NATAL STAGE ( GEF) GERMINAL


    ✓ First 2 weeks after conception

    ✓ zygote EMBRYONIC

    ✓ 2- 8 weeks after conception

    ✓ Zygote- Embryo FETAL

    ✓ 2 months after conception until 9 months.

    II. INFANCY STAGE Birth to 2 weeks of life Shortest of all developmental periods. Infant - “extreme
    helplessness”

    III. BABYHOOD STAGE 2nd week to 2nd year of life Decrease of dependency Babyhood skills: hand skills
    and leg skills Form of Communication - Crying, cooing, babbling, gesturing, and emotional expression

    IV. EARLY CHILDHOOD STAGE Ages 2 -6 “preschoolers years” Years before formal schooling begins.

    V. MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD Ages 6-12 Fundamental skills (3Rs) are mastered. Achievement
    becomes more central theme.

    VI. ADOLESCENCE Transition age from childhood to adulthood. Begins with rapid physical changes More
    logical, abstract and idealistic

    VII. EARLY ADULTHOOD 19 – 29 years New patterns of life and new roles

    VIII. MIDDLE ADULTHOOD 30-60 years old Adjustments to initial physical and mental decline are
    experienced.

    IX. LATE ADULTHOOD 61 years and above Adjustments to decreasing strength and health Retirement

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