LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT

Prenatal

  • Conception occurs and development begins/
  • Nagmeet ang sperm and egg cell
  • Dadaan sa tatlong stage
  • All of the major structures of the body are forming and the health of the mother is the primary concern.

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Three stages:

  • Germinal
  • Embryonic
  • Fetal period

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Professionals in this stage

  • Ob-gyne

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  • 9 months ang pagbubuntis
  • There are various approaches to labor, delivery and childbirth, with potential complications of pregnancy and delivery, as well as risks and complications with newborns, but also advances in tests, technology and medicine.
  • The influences of nature and nurture are evident.

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Techniques of giving birth:

  • Cesarean
  • Normal delivery
  • Water birth

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Factors affecting pregnancy:

  • Pagod sa work
  • Walang help sa paggawa sa gawaing bahay.
  • Napapaligiran ng may bisyo.

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Childbirth

  • During childbirth, there’s also a lot of tests that are needed to make sure the baby is in good condition.
  • Postpartum may occur.

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Newborn screening

  • To know if a baby has congenital disorders.
  • Senses
  • Internal organs
  • Eyes
  • Overall wellbeing
  • Hearing is also being checked within 3 days.

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Nature

  • Hereditary traits/ factor or genes
  • Dominant and recessive genes

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Nurture

  • External environment

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Teratogens

  • Toxic environmental factors, toxic materials or substances na nalanghap/ nasagap during pregnancy.
  • Causing abnormalities to babies.
  • Causing miscarriage.

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Infancy

  • 1st year-½ 2 years
  • Dramatic growth and change (mabilis na paglaki ng baby)
  • Walking and talking toddler
  • Infants have their own temperaments and approaches to play
  • Separation anxiety and the development of attachment styles
  • Brain development happens at a remarkable rate, as does physical growth and language development.
  • Social and cultural issues

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Early childhood

  • Preschool years
  • Follow toddlerhood
  • Precede formal schooling
  • 2 to 5 or 6
  • Children are busy learning languages.
  • Gain a sense of self and greater independence
  • Interests in the size, time, space and distance.
  • Force determination to do something
  • 4 yr old sense of guilt for doing something.

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Middle childhood

  • 6-11 yrs old
  • Mastering of skills/abilities/adding more additional skills.
  • Making comparisons between self and others.
  • More external activities.
  • Brain size has reached adult size at 7 yrs old.
  • Growth rate physically becomes slow.
  • Refine their motor skills.
  • Socialization will go beyond.

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Adolescence

  • Physical growth spurt and sexual maturation.
  • Timing may vary by gender, cohort, culture.
  • Development of abstract concepts such as love, fear, freedom.
  • Sense of invincibility - learners do something beyond their capability. Risky for their life.
  • Research on brain development helps us understand teen risk-taking and impulsive behavior.

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Self-searching

  • A major development in this stage, establishing one’s own identity.
  • Struggle to become more independent.

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Peers

  • Become more important.
  • Individuals will try to explore new things such as part time jobs, dating, and planning for the future.

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Early adulthood

  • Love and work are priorities.
  • Late teens, twenties up to 30’s.
  • Being serious in life.
  • Focus on the future and deciding what to do in the future/making choices.

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Middle adulthood

  • Late 30’s through the mid 60’s
  • Still in working stage
  • Physiological aging
  • Maybe a period of gaining expertise in a certain field and being able to understand problems and find solutions w/greater efficiency than in the future.
  • Realistic mindset

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Sandwich Generation

  • Adults may be in the middle of taking care of their children and also their aging parents.

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Late adulthood

  • Lifespan
  • Has increased in the last 100 years.
  • 65-74 years old, “young old”
  • 75-84 yrs old, “old old”
  • 85 years old, “oldest old”

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Death and dying

  • Least coverage in terms of research
  • Age,religion and culture play important roles in attitudes and approaches to death and dying.
  • Causes of death vary w/ age, gender, race, culture and time in history.
  • Dying and grieving are processes and may share certain stages of reactions to loss.
  • Death rituals, mourning and grief.

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Types of death

  • Physiological
  • Psychological
  • Social

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Good death

  • Described as an including personal choices and the involvement of loved ones throughout the process.

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