Coker Et Al - Chapter 1 Flashcards
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Why did lifespan development theories arise?
An attempt to organize and make sense of human capacities and limitations across the lifespan, and to create some normed expectations which would guide where and how therapeutic intervention was to be directed for clients’ optimal wellbeing and ongoing development.
At their core, developmental theories do what?
Provide us with important frameworks to understand those around us. They help contextualize experiences, give us a point of reference to understand growth and barriers to progress, and they help us to understand where traumas, life circumstances, and areas of concern may have manifested or are creating limitations for the clients we serve.
True or False: Developmental theories come with limitations.
True; they are born out of the experiences of specific theorists, often over-generalized to individuals and population on whom and for whom they were not developed, and can fail to consider the contextual and cultural implications tied into the development process.
Lifespan development is what?
A composite of all the elements of our growth and experience across time, from conception to death.
Physiological, cognitive, and social-emotional development.
What is physiological development?
Encompasses the physical and genetic portions of our developmental experiences. Genetic make up, body growth, hormonal changes, impact of physical deformities and disabilities, diseases, and illnesses. Begins before our birth.
Physiological development results from what?
The combination of genetics, lifestyle, and environment, some of which we can control and much of which we cannot.
What is cognitive development?
Impact on areas of language, memory, and intelligence.
Concerned with how individuals learn to think, explore the world around them, and use knowledge to problem-solve.
Conception to late childhood is the most significant period. Brain grows to 90% of its adult volume.
True or false: the brain continues to mature in size through adolescence, and the prefrontal cortex and other regions of the brain are not fully developed until the mid-20s.
True
What are socio-political considerations?
Economic influence, political factors, and sociological trends that have a direct impact on the life of each individual.
What are political factors in this context?
Laws and policies that impact individuals within their environments, but also include things such as political forces and influences that may impact access to or the experience of different elements in society.
Should you apply the theory to the client or the client to theory?
The client to the theory
What does pre and perinatal psychology focus on?
Human development from pre-conception through the first year after birth.
Coalesces the fields of anthropology, sociology, embryology, evolutionary biology and psychology, medicine, and mental health.
Explores the lived experience of implicit memory as it relates to beliefs and behaviors, as well as the risk and potential associated with variations in conception, gestation, and the early bonding experience considered to be the foundation of one’s life cycle to follow.
What is the hallmark of pre and perinatal psychology?
A trauma informed, relational, experiential, holistic interview and intevention process.
What is neuroanthropology?
Investigates how the brain develops within culture, and how culture is in turned shaped by the brain.
PPN reports what?
That the emotional tenor and resulting neurochemical environment present through the process of conception do not have a null effect.
PPN suggests that the BLANK might result in disenfranchised grief for birth parent and/or subsequent babies, as well as increased risks of mental health diagnoses.
Haunted womb
What are teratogenic substances?
Malformation-causing such as alcohol, drugs, fertilizers, chemicals, plastics, and pesticides. Can affect gestation.
