NURS103 Study Guide - Final Guide: Problem Solving, Ossification, Visual Acuity
25 Aug 2016
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School-aged children and adolescents lead demanding and challenging lives. Physical, psychosocial, cognitive, and moral skills are developed, expanded, refined, and synchronized. Environment= family, close friends, school, community, and religious institution. Increasing skill and knowledge base and environmental expansion-> new difficulties and dilemmas. Direct school-aged children and adolescents toward normal developmental behaviours-> improving their abilities and using them to cope. Describe their feelings about changes and think through them. Problem solving-> more purposeful and sophisticated and results in achievement of outcomes that they desire. Meet challenge of developing cognitive skills that enhance their reasoning and allow them to learn to read, write, and manipulate numbers. Foundation for adult roles in work, recreation, and social interaction is laid. Puberty= at around 12, signals the end of middle child-hood. School/educational experience expands children"s world and is a transition from a life of relatively free play to a life of structured play, learning, and work.
