Theories and Interventions for the Young Ladies of First Step Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility ShaWanda Geter Troy University Human Lifespan Development PSY 6668 Dr. John Alberty April 14, 2016 Physical, Cognitive, and Socioemotional Development The population is described as fifteen female adolescents ranging from ages 11 to 17 years old. Although this population of females come from a diverse cultural and ethnic background they are linked by similar physical and mental issues
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causes play to occur in the first place; second the function this recreational activity has for a child’s development? As play can be defined by being unpromted, natural act, its benefits can be heightened through the concept of “scaffolding”. The theory of scaffolding proposed by Vygotsky refers to the “assistance or structuring provided
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great insight development of person through ones lifespan with his well-known concepts, the Stages of psychosocial development, as well as his Identity crisis at each stage. For Erikson, his theories were influenced by his childhood and his obsession over his identity. It led to the development of his theories. Erikson was born June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany. He never saw his birth father or his mother's first husband. His young Jewish mother raised Erik by herself for a time before marrying
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Introduction All living organisms possess a life span, this is not a process exclusive to humans only; the development of this life span includes life, decline, dying and death. There are several theories of life span development; however this paper will focus on and summarize just two of those theories, as well as shed some light on how heredity and the environment interact to produce individual differences in development. The hope is that the readers of this paper gain some knowledge of the human
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students to more closely examine the profiles of their friends and groups to determine with whom they will be more compatible in the long-term, mature level. Facebook’s impact on students holds true in one final vector of Chickering and Reisser’s theory “Establishing identity.” While one could argue the development of student identities takes place during the creation of a profile, the development of the students’ true identity is something that a profile is likely dependent upon. A student’s Facebook
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Play is an important part of a developmentally appropriate curriculum. Play has a positive affect on children and allows children to be attentive. Learning skills such as building block towers, drawing circles, and using safety scissors play apart of physical development. (Aiger, 2015). Sorting objects and material by color, shape, and size helps the age range I chose for cognitive development . Piaget’s Preoperational Stage categorizes the age group that I choose. Children learn to engage in representational
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clients are rarely single issues,” (Marianne Woodside, An Introduction to Human Services, 2012) and depending on how many actual problems there are some may go unnoticed. A few of the problems client may face are but definitely not limited to, developmental theory, situational perspective, meeting human needs, both physical and psychological, social change, and environmental influences. Human service professionals are skilled to notice the problems clients are facing and use those problems to set obtainable
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the years, different researchers have produced different mentoring functions. However, they all classify their functions based on the theory of Kram 1985 (Ragins and Cotton 1999). Therefore, for the purpose of this research, the researcher refers to Kram’s theory in 1985. She defined mentoring function as “essential characteristics that differentiate developmental relationships from other relationships” (p. 22). She further classifies the functions into two: career and psychological. The career functions
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The Meaning of Identity: A Brief History The term identity as the dictionary defines it today is almost as new as the sciences devoted to studying it. The definition of the word identity has undergone several transformations since it was first used by European philosophers emerging from the Dark Ages. It wouldn’t be until 1950 that the word would undergo its final stage, the one seen used in psychology textbooks across the world. Erik Erikson’s eight stages of the life cycle gave us its
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Erikson’s theory states “individuals not only develop a unique personality, but also acquire attitudes and skills that make them active, contributing members of their society that recognize the development throughout a lifespan and the impact of culture” (Berk, 2014. p. 16). Based on Erickson’s eight stages, when a child is in the early childhood stage of development, they are considered to be in the initiative versus guilt stage. Just as the term indicates, initiative is when the child begins to
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