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Objectives: Describe the stages of growth and development. Review the factors affecting growth and development. Outline the methods for growth measurements and standard screening tools for developmental assessment.
Learn the definition of growth and development and see examples of growth and development. Understand how growth and development are different. Analyze maturation.
Development is growth in function and capability. Both processes depend on genetic, nutritional, and environmental factors. When describing physical and emotional development in children, it is useful to define certain age-based groups:
27 What is Growth and Development? Learning Objectives. By the end of this section, you will be able to: Define and distinguish between the three domains of development: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. Discuss the normative approach to development.
Child development refers to all the milestones that experts expect children to meet by certain ages. These milestones include how children grow physically and develop socially, emotionally and mentally.
Development is growth in function and capability. Both processes depend on genetic, nutritional, and environmental factors. When describing physical and emotional development in children, it is useful to define certain age-based groups:
human development, the process of growth and change that takes place between birth and maturity. Human growth is far from being a simple and uniform process of becoming taller or larger. As a child gets bigger, there are changes in shape and in tissue composition and distribution.
Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that focuses on how people grow and change over the course of a lifetime. Those who specialize in this field are not just concerned with the physical changes that occur as people grow; they also look at the cognitive, emotional, and social development that occurs throughout life.
To grow and develop optimally, children need adequate nutrition, they need to be healthy, they must feel safe and secure, and have opportunities for learning starting from birth. Ensuring these elements is defined as “nurturing care”.
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life.