HEALTH PROMOTION OF THE SCHOOL AGED CHILD:

Question 1

School aged child age

Answer 1

6-12

Question 2

School Age Characteristics
Milestones

Answer 2

• Learning New Skills
• Milestones
  — Ride bike
  — Sports
  — Board games, electronic games
  — Love to collect and follow rules
  — Enjoys learning new skills

Question 3

Erikson: stage for school aged child

Answer 3

Industry vs. Inferiority
Age: 6-12yrs

Question 4

Industry

Answer 4

• Eager to develop skills and participate in meaningful and socially useful work
• Acquires a sense of personal and interpersonal competence
• Growing sense of independence
• Peer approval is a strong motivator- so and so in the next room did this

Question 5

Inferiority

Answer 5

• Feelings may derive from self or the social environment
• May occur if incapable or unprepared to assume the responsibilities associated with developing a sense of accomplishment
• All children feel some degree of inferiority regarding skill(s) they cannot master

Question 6

Piaget: Cognitive Development
Stage?
Age?
What is it?

Answer 6

Concrete Operational
7-11yrs

• Use thought processes to experience events and actions
• Develop an understanding of relationships between things and ideas
• Able to make judgments based on reason (conceptual thinking)
• *Conservation: matter does not change when the form is altered

Question 7

Kohlberg: Moral Development stage:
What is it

Answer 7

Conventional
- Development of conscience and moral standards
- In a child age 6 to 7 years, reward and punishment guide choices
- Older school-age child is able to judge an act by the intentions that prompted it
- Rules and judgments become more founded on the needs and desires of others

Question 8

Spiritual Development: School aged

Answer 8

• Follow examples of friends and family
• Children think in concrete terms
• Children expect punishment for misbehavior
• *May view illness or injury as punishment for a real or imagined misdeed
  — I broke my leg and i know i was bc i was mean to my sister (normal)

Question 9

School aged: Play

Answer 9

• *Involves physical skill, intellectual ability, and fantasy
• Form groups, cliques, clubs, secret societies
• Rules and rituals
• See the need for rules in games they play

Question 10

Nutrition- School Aged

Answer 10

• Importance of balanced diet to promote growth
• Quality of the diet related to the family’s pattern of eating
• Quality of dietary choices in the school cafeteria
• “Fast food” concerns
• Growth Spurts: Girls 10-11 yrs and Boys 11-12 years

Question 11

Sleep- School Aged

Answer 11

The average amount of sleep at night is 9½ hours in school-age children, but this is highly individualized

Question 12

Childhood Obesity- school aged
Causes:

Answer 12

• Rapidly escalating – epidemic levels (one-third of American children are overweight or obese)
• Type II diabetes now common
  Cause:
• Decreased activity level
• Increased television/electronic device time
• High fat consumption

Question 13

Injury Prevention- School Aged

Answer 13

• *Most common cause of severe injury and death in school-age children is motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian and passenger
• Bicycle injuries; benefits of bike helmets
• Appropriate safety equipment for all sports
• Drowning, burns, poisoning