ch 15 health promotion of school age child and family Flashcards
what age is considered school age
6-12 yo
what does school age classification technically begin and end with
begin: losing first baby teeth
ends: puberty and has all adult teeth
expected height increase per year
2 inches
expected weight increase per year
2-3 kg
psychosocial development
-relationships center around same-sex peers
-freud: “latency” period
are girls or guys usually taller during this time
girls taller
two years preceding puberty
prepubescence
average age puberty for girls? for boys?
girls: 12 yo
boys: 14 yo
erikson stage for school age children
industry v inferiority
characteristics of erikson’s industry
-eager to develop skills and participate in meaningful and socially useful work
-acquire sense of personal and interpersonal competence
-growing sense of independence
-peer approval is strong motivator
characteristics of erikson’s inferiority
-feelings may derive from self/social environment
-May occur if incapable or unprepared to assume the responsibilities associated with
developing a sense of accomplishment
-All children feel some degree of inferiority regarding skill(s) they cannot master
what stage of piaget’s cognitive development is this age group in
concrete operations
characteristics of piaget’s concrete operations
-use thought processes to experience events and actions
-Develop understanding of relationships between things and ideas (cause + effect)
-Able to make judgments based on reason
-Conservation—physical matter does not appear and disappear by magic
ability to analyze, think about, and talk about language independent of the concrete meaning of each word
metalinguistic awareness
kohlberg’s moral development characteristics for schoolage children
-6-7 yo: rewards and punishments guide choices
-older school age: able to judge and act by intentions that prompted it