FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Disability, Critical Period

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

This capacity [of individuals and families to cope successfully] changes over time, and is enhanced by protective factors in the individual /system and the environment, and contributes to the maintenance of health. (mangham, reid, and stewart, 1996) Investigate the process by which families are able to adapt and function. New investigations competently following exposure to significant risk factors or crisis. Families most at risk poverty, marital instability and family dysfunction. Cognition, physical vitality and personality have strong basis in childhood. And yet, children resist and bounce back from harmful experience, indicating resilience" and. How early, under what conditions, and how permanent are developmental failure. Are their sensitive periods" in early life which make children more or less. Thresholds in developmental failure may differ between people. Even if damage occurs during sensitive periods, there may be plasticity" or (reversibility) in some and permanence in others. Mature at different ages well into young adulthood. Brain growth spurts coincide with functional growth spurts.