NURS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organicism, Teratology, Individuation
15 Dec 2017
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Physical growth: the quantitative or measurable aspect of an individual"s increasing physical measurements. Development: a progressive and continuous process of change leading to increased skill and capacity to function. Three major categories of factors that influence human growth and development: genetic or natural forces within the person the environment in which the person lives the interaction that takes place between these two factors. Theory: an organized, often observable, logical set of statements about a subject. Five traditions of theory development: organicism, psychoanalytic and psychosocial, mechanistic, contextualism, dialecticism. Mechanisms of development: the explanatory components of each theory or the means by or factors that underlie the developmental process within each theory and the enable developmental progression. Organicism: a theoretical focus on the organism itself. Development is the result of biologically driven behaviour and adaptation to the environment. Biophysical developmental theories: describe and explain how the physical body grows and changes.
