COUN227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Preterm Birth, Critical Role, Puberty
Document Summary
Outcomes associated with very premature birth differ why: medical factors, disruptions to brain development, brain injury. Optimising outcomes across the lifespan for mental health. Conceptualizing development: making it accessible to study (role of theory/divisions and domains) The lifespan approach (elder & baltes) emphasizes that there is potential for development from conception to death: major assumption: no age period is supreme in its impact on the life-course. Life span perspective: 5 key principles (baltes: development is life-long, development occurs in a historical time-frame and in a variety of contexts, development is multi-dimensional, development is multi-directional, development is plastic. Making it accessible to study: developmental domains (their interrelatedness, developmental periods/life course divisions (characteristics) Interrelatedness of developmental domains: biological: myelination of the brain. Emotional and cognitive: thinking about the way you feel at the moment. Social and cognitive: thinking about your last social encounter; remembering how to start up a conversation. Conditions that set the stage for development of parent-child relationships.
