Child development stages

The article I chose to critique is Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice by Lefmann and Combs-Orme. It provides examples of the usefulness of understanding the ontology of early brain development by proving how this comprehension can be incorporated into Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, more specifically throughout the stages of the sensorimotor period of Piaget’s theory. The problem addressed by the author is how social work profession fails to include critical…

Assignment 1 – Domains of Development Child development was largely ignored throughout much of history as children were often viewed simply as smaller versions of adults. However, as a child, you rapidly engage in new experiences and acquire most of your personal characteristics during this time. Therefore, it has been recognised that this is the most significant stage of an individual’s growth. Childhood development begins from infancy to adolescent and follows a predictable, yet progressive…

The developmental psychology has seven stages this includes infancy, childhood, lover, solder, justice, old age and, finally, dementia and death. Shakespeare’s seven stages into developmental psychology concepts would correlate with the stages of life span development. The first prenatal stage of development is when the beginning of conception and last two weeks. The zygote single cell, that results when a sperm fertilized an egg. This happens when the ovum is fertilized in the fallopian tube.…

environment. I feel everything a child does is a learning experience, whether good or bad. Learning experiences are contributing factors to a child’s development. My theory is called Freeman’s Child Development Theory. I believe there are five stages of development. The first stage would be pre-birth. The second would be the noticing of life stage, which occurs between the ages of the ages of birth to two years old. The third stage would be the experimental stage, which occurs between the ages…

Observing a child has always been a fascinating experience. It is amazing to see how differently children act in regards to child development theories. I recently observed a 4 year old little girl who I babysit periodically. My observation was conducted after school at the school I am contracted at. For the purposes of confidentiality the name of the little girl has been changed to Kaiya. I observed Kaiya the week of February 15-19 after school from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Kaiya has two older…

theory on psychosocial development of human beings. John Bowlby a psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst are known for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. Both aspired to understand the importance of human development and the importance of many factors that play in an individual’s life to ensure the human well-being from a social perspective. Bowlby and Erikson believed that trust is very important in the psychological development of an…

learned to crawl and then walk? How about language? Child development theories explain all these types of questions. I learned that there are many different viewpoints and theories of childhood development. Education, culture, and religious views can affect a parent’s decision on how to raise their children. Child development refers to the process through which individuals regularly develop and develop from early stages through adulthood. Child development theories are used to describe a child’s…

Child development is significant during the first years of life. The events that occur during infancy and toddlerhood will influence the child during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Starting at birth through 12 months of age children are referred to as infants, and then toddlers’ from12 to 36 months of age. (Hutchison, 2014, 97). During the first 3 years of life the child’s brain is easily stimulated and able to learn rapidly due to the overproduction of synapses followed by a reduction…

Studies and Child Psychology? and how do they differ? What is childhood? We can all relate to this subject as we have all been children at some point in our lives, but how is childhood defined and what factors impact on a person’s childhood? The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that a ‘child’ means ‘every human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier’ Childhood studies focuses on the child and…

Encouraging Language Development Language development is one of the key factors for a child’s healthy cognitive and even physical development as it involves muscles of the face and mouth, requiring them to work simultaneously, ears training to hear and recognize sounds and speech flow and cognition for comprehension and communication. Behaviorist theory suggests that a parent reinforces language when they praise their child for annunciating words like da-da or ma-ma. Although the child begins…