School Age

Question 1

Identify Erikson’s psychosocial stage of development

Answer 1

Industry vs. Inferiority

Question 2

Identify Piaget’s cognitive stage of development

Answer 2

Concrete operational

Question 3

Identify 5 health promotion interventions for the school-age child

Answer 3

Wearing helmets when riding bicycles, ATVs, skates or skateboarding; firearm safety; wearing seatbelts; reinforce need for dental hygiene; participate in meal preparation and chores; limit-setting and discipline; encourage physical activity; teach healthy eating and sleep habits; initiation of sex education; protective eye and mouth shields, protective padding when participating in active sports.

Question 4

What type of play does the school-age child engage in?

Answer 4

Fantasy play and day-dreaming

Question 5

Are school-age children prone to psychosomatic illnesses and why?

Answer 5

Yes – fear of death process, disease process, the unknown, and loss of control, and school phobias.

Question 6

How is injury prevention directed in this age-group?

Answer 6

Motor vehicle accidents

Question 7

School-age children begin to form important relationships with _______.

Answer 7

Peers

Question 8

The major task during the middle school years is developing a sense of ____________.

Answer 8

Morality

Question 9

Identify 5 factors of psychosocial development in this age-group.

Answer 9

May be influenced by teacher, plays with peers, develops sense of morality, compares body to others – starts to develop modesty, participates in family activities, becomes aware of social roles, engages in fantasy play and day-dreaming, may exhibit fear of death or school.

Question 10

Identify 5 factors of cognitive development.

Answer 10

Time and space, cause and effect, nesting, reversibility, numbers, conservation, fractions, classification of objects, learns to read and spell, becomes interested in board games, cards and collections.

Question 11

Identify 5 factors of physical development.

Answer 11

Slow growth, loss of deciduous teeth and eruption of permanent teeth, vision matures, bones grow faster than ligaments – prone to fractures, lymphoid tissue hypertrophies to maximum size immune system matures, participates in group activities, bones continue to ossify, prepubescence.

Question 12

What is the school-aged child’s concept of death?

Answer 12

More like adult concept- realize permanence.

Question 13

What is a defining physical characteristic of middle childhood and why is this important?

Answer 13

Loss of deciduous teeth and need to emphasize good dental care.