Growth and Development from birth to adolescence Flashcards
What is development?
It is
- Cephalocaudal
- Proximal to distal body parts
- Gross to refined skills
- From lower to more complex stage or development tasks
What is the prenatal stage?
Germinal : Conception to 2 weeks
Embryonic : 2-8 weeks
Fetal : 8 - 40 weeks
What is the infancy stage?
Neonatal : Birth to 28 days
Infant : 28 days - 12 months
What is early childhood?
Toddler : 1 - 3 years
Pre-school : 3 - 6 years
What is mid childhood?
School age : 6 to 12 years
Late childhood/ Pre-pubertal : 10 - 13 years
What is adolescent ?
13 - 18 years
What is skeletal growth and maturation?
Hand and wrist x-ray is useful for determining skeletal age especially before 6 yeats
What is the brain growth ?
1 year old : 50%
3 years old : 75%
6 years old : 90%
What is the growth rate for birth to 6 months?
- Weekly weight gain: 140-200gms
- Monthly height gain: 2.5cm
What is the growth rate for 6 - 12 months?
- Weekly weight gain: 85-140gms
- Monthly height gain: 1.25cm
What is the growth for toddlers, preschoolers & school-aged children?
- Yearly weight gain: 2-3kg
- Height gain: 12cm at start and slows down to 5cm per year
What is the pubertal growth spurt?
- Female: 10 – 14 years weight gain 7 to 25kg, height gain 5 to 25cm.
Height max at menarche or skeletal age of 13 years - Males: 11-16 years weight gain 7 to 30kg, height gain 10cm to 30cm.
Height max at skeletal age of 15 years
What is freud theory?
Child develops a series of psychosexual stages, focus on particular body part
FREUD VERSUS ERIKSON
Infancy
Birth to 1 year
Freud
Oral sensory
- Explore by using mouth especially tongue
Erikson
- forms sense of trust v.s mistrust
- learns to love and be loved
Toddler
1 to 3 years
Freud
Anal stage
- learn to control urination and defecation
Erikson
- autonomy verus shame and doubt
- learns to be independent
FREUD V.S. ERIKSON
Early childhood
( 3 to 6 years )
Freud
Phallic stage
- learns sexual identify through awareness of genital areas
Erikson
Initiative versus guilt
- learns how to do things and doing things is desirable
Mid childhood
( 6 to 12 years )
FREUD VERSUS ERIKSON
Freud
Latency
- Personality development appears to be non active or dormant
Erikson
Industry versus inferiority
- learns how to do things well
Adolescent
12 to 19 years
Freud
Genitality
- sexual maturity, learn to establish a relationship with opposite sex
Erikson
Identity versus identity confusion
- learns who they are and the kind of person they will be by adjusting to a new body image
LANGUAGE ABILITY
Prelinguistic
10 months to 1 year
Crying, cooing, babbling – pronounces mama by age 8 months.
Understands mama and da-da incorrect context by age 10 months
Holophrastic
1 to 1.5 yrs
Language abilities
Single-word utterances that represent the meaning of an entire sentence
Telegraphic
1.5 to 2 yrs
Content words, omission of less meaningful parts of speech such as
articles, prepositions and auxiliary words
Pre-school
2.5 to 5 yrs
Lengthy sentences with increasing complexity
Mid-childhood
6 to 14 yrs
Use of bigger words, longer and more complex sentences; able to
understand complex syntactic structures of native language