Human Growth & Development - Emma Zara O'Brien

Human Growth & Development

An Irish Perspective
Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2013 | 2nd Revised edition
Gill & Macmillan Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7171-5629-0 (ISBN)
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Updated edition of this popular book introducing human growth and development from conception to old age, with reference to an Irish context.






New to this edition:


Updated for the Human Growth and Development award (5N1279)
New chapter emphasises the application of knowledge to practical, work-based problems and scenarios
Greater prominence given to the older stage of lifespan development with reference to the Creating Excellence in Dementia Care report 2012









Irish and international facts, research, cases and statistics are used to:


explain normal patterns of lifespan development;
introduce variations within the normal range;
highlight the factors that can affect development throughout the lifespan.









Examines the stages from infancy to old age within the framework of physical, cognitive and socio-emotional theories.








Written For:




NFQ Level 5 Human Growth and Developemnt component module, as part of:






Early Childhood Care & Education (5M2009)
Applied Social Studies (5M2181)
Community Care (5M2786)
Health Service Skills (5M3782)
Healthcare Support (5M4339)
Nursing Studies (5M4349)
Community Health Services (5M4468)


Also suitable for:






CACHE courses in Childcare and Health and Social Care
Montessori courses and Returning to Education courses
Introduction to Psychology courses

Emma Zara O’Brien, MLitt, HDipEd, HDipPsych, is a lecturer of Lifespan Development at Inchicore College of Further Education. She has worked as a researcher in the Centre for Disability Studies, UCD, and in the National Children’s Office. She is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland and the author of Psychology for Social Care.

Chapter 1: What is Psychology?


In Focus: Critical vs. Sensitive Period Debate — Extreme Deprivation





Chapter 2: Theorists 


In Focus: Elder’s Study of the Great Depression and its Impact




Chapter 3: Conception, Prenatal Development and Birth


In Focus: Low Birth Weight and Social Inequality





Chapter 4: The Newborn Baby


In Focus: Foetal Alcohol Syndrome - the Irish Experience





Chapter 5: Infancy: The First Two Years of Life


In Focus: The Implications of Disorganised Attachment




Chapter 6: Early Childhood: Two to Five Years


In Focus: Autism




Chapter 7: Middle Childhood: Six to Eleven Years 


In Focus: Children’s Understanding of Well-being





Chapter 8: Adolescence


In Focus: Suicide





Chapter 9: Early to Middle Adulthood


In Focus: Alcoholism and Drug Addiction





Chapter 10: Older Age, Dying and Death


In Focus: Elder Abuse and Older People’s Experience of Mistreatment and Abuse




Chapter 11: Knowledge into Practice

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.3.2013
Verlagsort Dublin
Sprache englisch
Maße 176 x 245 mm
Gewicht 529 g
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Histologie / Embryologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-7171-5629-X / 071715629X
ISBN-13 978-0-7171-5629-0 / 9780717156290
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