KAK1043

CHILD GROWTH AND

DEVELOPMENT
iylia dayana shamsudin,
Ph.D
 Introduction: who is a child?
• “A child is any person under the age of 18
(The United Nations Convention On The Rights
Of The Child, CRC; Child Act 2001)
• “A child is an important part of a society, a key to
society’s survival, development and prosperity”
(Child Act 2001)
• “A child is entitled to protection and assistance in all
circumstances without regard to distinction of any kind
such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, social origin
or physical, mental or emotional disabilities” (Child Act 2001)
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Child growth
Child growth
• Child growth referred to anthropometric changes expected to the
child’s age
• Involving body measures – weight, length
• Can be referred to quantitative change of a human being
• Related to child’s development

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Child development
Child development
• Development = pattern of change begins at conception and continues
through out human lifespan.
• Child development = the sequence of development in ranges of skills and
capabilities including physical, cognitive, language, emotional, social, moral
and spiritual.
• Influenced by factors internally (built in the body such as genetics) and
externally (outside or surrounding the body such as environment and people).
• Child development resulted from interplay of three processes – biological,
cognitive, and socioemotional.

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 Factors influencing child development
• Health and wellbeing – of the mother and the baby (including genetics or risk factors leading to malformity)
• Parenting
• Education
• Context
• Culture
• Ethnicity
• Socioeconomic status (SES)
• Gender
• Resilience
• Social policy

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Three processes in child development

Discuss how these three processes interplay

in a child’s social development in the following
Biological process example:

A 3 years old girl at a restaurant, sitting next

Cognitive process
Socioemotional
process
to your table looking at you and smiling at you.

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Acts and laws related to children

Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

• Initiated by the United Nation

• Recognised and accepted internationally (196
countries)
• Agreement (treaty) by countries promising to protect
children’s right.
• 54 articles related to the rights of children (
https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/conve
ntion-text-childrens-version
)
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Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

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Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

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Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

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Child Act 2001
Child Act 2001
• Malaysian Act
• Purpose: consolidate and amend the laws
relating to the care, protection and rehabilitation
of children.
• Used in Malaysia

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Child Act 2001

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 Exercise

• Find out about:

• National Child Protection Policy
• National Child Policy
• Discuss the relation between these two Malaysia’s policies with Child
Act 2001 and CRC

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 Iylia Dayana Shamsudin

iyliadayana@fpm.upsi.edu.my

Thank You!

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