Lecture 10 Health promotion in school age and adolescence Flashcards
Physiologically, “school age” or “middle childhood” begins with _ and ends with _
The shedding of the first deciduous tooth; puberty.
In the school age child, the organization of the CNS is like an adult’s, although the _, the site of reasoning ability, is still maturing.
Frontal lobes.
School age child - Erikson
- Industry vs. inferiority*:
1. Achieve a sense of personal and interpersonal competence through the acquisition of technologic and social skills.
2. Children who do not view themselves as competent socially, physically, or intellectually develop a sense of inadequacy or inferiority.
School age child - Piaget
- Concrete operational* - the 3 Cs:
1. Conservation = understanding of matter - liquid in different sized glasses, still the same amount.
2. Classification = sort things into similar and different categories, hierarchy.
3. Combination = numbers, letters to form words, words to form sentences.
Children should not ride in the front seat until they are _ years old.
13.
Diagnosis of pediculosis capitis requires the presence of nits (eggs) within _ of the scalp.
1 cm.
The first line treatment for pediculosis capitis (head lice) is _
Permethrin (Nix) 1% cream rinse.
Adolescent - Erikson
Identity vs. role confusion:
Task is to develop a stable, coherent picture of oneself that includes integrating one’s past and present experiences with a sense of where one is headed in the future.
Adolescent - Piaget
Formal operational:
Thinking in abstract terms; possibilities; hypotheses; future time perspective.
Acanthosis nigricans (velvety hyperpigmentation of the skin, especially within folds) is a sign of _ resistance.
Insulin.
Retinal hemorrhages are a classic indicator of _
Abuse/shaken baby syndrome.
A “normal” BMI is one that is between _
18.5 and 25.
An “overweight” BMI is one that is between _
25 and 30 or the 85th and 95th percentile.
An “obese” BMI is one that is above _
30 or the 95th percentile.
