Care of Family and adolescents Flashcards
Age range of an adolescence
13-20 years old
3 phases of adolescence
Early adolescence 13-14
Middle adolescence 14-15
Late adolescence 16-20
Period that involves development and maturation. Time of rapid growth
Puberty
Emotional, Physiological and social changes that results in the transition from child to adult
Adolescence
Emotional Development on an adolescent
Unstable emotion
Physiologic Development on an adolescent
development of primary and secondary sex characteristics
what is a primary sex characteristics?
changes in reproductive organs
what is a secondary sex characteristics?
changes in physical feature (external)
Period Menarche of a female
10.5 - 15.5 years old
Period of breast development of females
7-13 and 12-18
age range of girls puberty
9-10
age range of boys puberty
10-11
Height spurt: girls
9.5 - 14.5
Stages of breast development: elevation of areola
Stage 2
Stages of breast development: further enlargement of the breast, there’s still no separation of contour in areola
Stage 3