Development Of Children
Posted by admin on Wednesday Jul 22, 2009 Under Child Behavior
Explain why it is important for practitioners to understand the pattern of development of children from birth?
I’m really stuck on this question for my Unit 2 assignment. It’s worth 15 marks.
Sorry scrap the 1st part because it didn’t accept ‘to 16 years?’
Explain why it is important for practitioners to understand the pattern of development of children from birth to 16 years?
Your help would be very much appreciated :’)
The key idea here is that we develop aspects of our individual personality and what are termed “milestones” around set ages. These things are vital for “normal” function in a mature adult. For example, Physically, we grow and mature into our own gender and our nervous system develops enabling us to walk, co-ordinate our body to be able to feed ourselves etc. Psychologically we develop things such as an awareness of separateness from our mothers, learning to trust our environment, ability to interact socially etc etc.
The thing is that if any of these Developmental Stages are interrupted then it can help us to understand problems that individuals have. An obvious example is child abuse. There are other indicators such as serious accidents, traumatic experiences, death of a parent and the list goes on.
Understanding “normal” development can help us to appreciate how “abnormal” development has played a part in a persons current difficulties.
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