Primary Care of Adolescent and School-Aged (Through AAP Changes) Flashcards
6 Year Old Developmental Tasks (6)
- Less magical thinking
- Can draw triangle
- Egocentric (sun comes up so child can play)
- Has friends outside home
- Think that they cause everything, cause for mom’s illness
- Playdates
What age should a child be able to draw certain shapes? (4)
- O = 3
- Cross = 4
- Square = 5
- Triangle = 6
School-Aged Child 7-10 Erickson’s Developmental Tasks (8)
Industry versus inferiority
- Need to separate
- Develop coping skills
- Still like fantasy
- Quest for social involvement and socialization
- Stress overload causes somatization
- Loves books and fantasy
- Need social involvement
- Overschedule their kids
School-Aged Child General Developmental Tasks (5)
- Explore school performance
- Social skills
- Family functioning
- Activities
- Development of conscience
Tasks of Adolescence (1b, 2d, 3c, 4)
- Establish autonomy
a. Peer group primary social support 15-17
b. 15-17 is peak period for family conflict - Psychosocial and psychosexual development
a. Acceptance of physical change
b. Establish of peer relations
* Same sex peer relationship in early adolescence
* Dating in later adolescence
c. Development of responsible behavior
d. Evolution of personal values (taking sides on social moral issue - Acceptance of physical change
a. Growth spurt
b. Growth of pubic and body hair
c. Growth and maturation of reproductive organs - Develop future plans
a. Occurs in later adolescence (18-25)
Adolescence Overview (3)
a. Period of physical change
b. Period of wanted to be accepted by peers
c. Don’t get involved – counsel parents of 10-13 year olds
* Want them to emerge independent
Hall’s 3 Key Elements of Adolescent Developments
“Storm and Stress”
- Conflict with parents
- Mood disruption
- Risky behavior
Erikson Stage of Adolescence
Confusion or diffusion of identity versus achieving a stable identity
(Identity vs. Role Confusion)
Adolescent Boys Physical Change (2)
- Increased muscle mass
* XXY with less muscle mass = Kleinfelder syndrome - Onset of sperm production
Adolescent Girls Physical Change (3)
- Development of female body shape, including breast development
- Menarche
- Gain a little weight
Adolescent Psychosocial Development (4)
- Emotional separation from parents
- Parent tries to control child instead of letting them go:” “Helicopter” parents; Sometimes adolescents need to learn from their mistakes - Greater sense of personal identity
- Identification with a peer group
- Exploration of romantic relationships and a sense of one’s sexuality
Cognitive Changes of Adolescence (7)
- Increased capacity for abstraction and advanced reasoning
- Greater impulse control
- More effective assessment of risk versus reward
- Improved use and manipulation of working memory
- Improved language skills
- Increased capacity to self-regulate emotional states
- Kids are highly manipulative
Moral Changes of Adolescence (4)
- Usually a shift from preconventional to conventional level of morality in Kohlberg’s theory
* Some kids don’t get good morality - Greater ability to take others’ perspectives
- Morality less concrete and rule-based, more focused on role obligations and how one is perceived by others
- May question values of parents and institutions; Question family values
Neinstein Phases of Adolescence (3)
- Early adolescence: 10-13
- Middle adolescence: approximately 14-16
- Late adolescence: 17-21years
Early Adolescence (1,2,3d,4b)
10-13 Years Old
- Also called “tween years”
- Transition from childhood to adolescent
- Hurried childhood at risk for:
a. More mental and behavioral problem
b. Unintentional and sports related injuries
c. Neighborhood and school violence
d. Risk behaviors related to early sexual behavior and substance abuse - Puberty begins
a. Earlier pubertal maturation leads to potential for early sexual intercourse
b. Early female maturation and late male maturation at risk for poor self esteem
Early Adolescence: Psychological Development (7)
- Personal fable
Ex: I won’t get hurt, I won’t develop a problem - Imaginary audience
- Tendency to magnify the situation
- Egocentricity
- Emotionally labile
- Unrealistic or idealistic vocational goal
- Need for privacy
Early Adolescence: Social Development (2)
- Beginning separation from family
a. Increased desire for independence
b. Increased resistance to parental supervision
c. Continued reliance on family for structure and support - Peer group increasingly important
a. Same sex social group
b. Idealized friendships
i. Ask about curfew times*
ii. Developmental stress, oncology regresses patients
iii. Peer group is increasingly important
Early Adolescence: Cognitive Development (3)
- Decisions are based on one’s own perception and direct experiences
- Cannot plan into the future or conceive long-range implications of actions or decisions
- Inability to personalize information that is presented in general terms
Pre-Adolescent Years: 10-13 (12)
Tweens are exposed to societal environmental pressures at a younger age
- Specialized camps
- Empty houses
- Family structures have changed
- Early exposure to sexual practices
- Sports at an earlier age
- All socioeconomic class are under increased pressure to engage in high risk behaviors between 10-15
Results in more vague symptoms at a younger age
- Stomach pain
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Vague complaints
- Time when injurious risk taking behavior –drinking, sex, smoking—can begin at urging of older socially advanced peers
- Concept of resiliency: Kids in the worse circumstances = very resilient
Middle Adolescence (14-16): Psychological Development (1d,2,3)
- Sense of omnipotence and invincibility
a. I can do it all attitude
b. Engenders risk taking which can result in positive or negative behaviors
c. Encourages limit testing
d. Leads to many “firsts”—job, experimentation - Impulsivity
- Self image is defined by perceived opinion of others; influence of peer
Middle Adolescence: Cognitive Development (2)
- Abstract thinking abilities increase
2. May revert to concrete thinking in stressful or emotional situations
Middle Adolescence: Social Development (3)
- Intense peer involvement – HALLMARK OF ADOLESCENCE*
a. Conformity with peer values, code and dress
b. Peer pressure can be positive or negative - Strive for emancipation from family
a. Interest and activities out the home and family
b. Employment allows financial independence
c. Challenges to parental authority
d. Peak time of conflict for parents and teens - Contracts
a. How can you deal with middle adolescents in a civil way?