Factors affecting growth and development Flashcards
Social factor 1
Domestic violence
- Impacts on ability of both women and children who have been affected to form meaningful relationships and interact fully in their community.
- Affects their ability to form stable relationships built on trust with others.
- Can cause trauma to child impacting their emotional development. Trauma can further develop into mental illness such as PTSD and depression.
- If there is family violence or children and experiencing abuse, they are withdrawn from school which will affect their education and learning abilities, this affects their growth and development as they are unable to reach their full potential.
- Social/emotional development between children from violent homes and those from non-violent homes.
- More acting out and negative behaviour More problem behaviours and require more love and attention.
- Impacts on ability of both women and children who have been affected to form meaningful relationships and interact fully in their community.
- Affects their ability to form stable relationships built on trust with others.
Social factor 2
Technology
Can weaken relationships between individuals, family and community due to less face-to-face communication and people being more concerned with social media, and games.
Positive impact:
Can learn and develop skills from games they play on phones. Valuable technology skills in future including speed at typing or improved memory.
Technology provides many positive benefits for learning e.g. all information students need is on google or documents sent by teachers rather than having to look for books in library. Technology improves quality of learning by providing more recourses and different recourses/ways of learning content E.g. quizlets, practice online tests, kahoot, google docks
Negative impact:
Lack of communication causes deterioration in relationships, understanding and empathy towards others. If relationships deteriorate within families, marriages breakdown or children don’t get on with parents, there is an impact on wider community as family members will feel lonely and isolated.
Cause distractions to schooling (going on technology rather than doing homework or schoolwork).
Technology encourages people to be inactive when they get home from school, as opposed to going outside and playing with other kids.
Cultural factors
Cultural
- Improved housing in Aboriginal Communities in North-Western Australia improves health and welfare of individuals in those communities. Must be respectful of cultural traditions (kinship).
- In Curitiba there are cultural shift (attitudes, values and practices of population group) by most members of community towards sustainable practices being only way of life.
- Some people have interaction and socialisation difficulties due to language barriers. Local government and community organisations offer specialist services like English classes or specialist food shops servicing ethnic populations.
- Cultural stereotypes and expectations cause people to feel lost and unplaced within society.
- Some cultures have strong beliefs about clothing, this can limit individuals as they cannot participate in different sports due to clothing.
- Some individuals will experience bullying due to their culture and specific clothing that they wear.
Environemental factor 1
Geographical Influence
- Affect schools they attend, neighbourhood they live in, opportunities offered by community and their peer circles.
- Living in an enriching community that has parks, libraries and community centres for group activities and sports all play a role in developing child’s skills, talents, and behaviour.
- Communities can push some children to not go outside often but play video games at home instead.
Environmental factor 2
Socio- Economic Status
- Determines quality of opportunity a child gets.
- Well-off families can also offer better learning resources for their children and they afford special aids or tutors if kids need it. Children from poorer families may not have access to educational resources as well as good nutrition so they can have energy to ensure they are reaching full potential.
- They may also have parents who work long hours and cannot invest enough quality time in their development.
Economic factor 1
Financial hardship
- Families will be struggling to pay for basic necessities like food, a place to live, transport costs, education and childcare expenses.
- Affects growth and development as nutrition may be poor, education inaccessible and housing substandard for optimal development.
Economic factor 2
Health
- Can put financial strain on families if there are not bulkbilling doctors in area or individuals need medical supplies not subsidised by government.
- This can mean members of population group will not have access to healthcare impacting negatively on growth and development
Economic factor 3
Accommodation
- Safe accommodation can be out of reach for people financially struggling, or single parents leaving domestic violence situations with dependents.
- If safe accommodation cannot be afforded, children become stressed and anxious which impacts their emotional and cognitive development.
Political factor 1
Cyber safety education
- Government has made it a requirement that children are educated at schools about online safety, i.e. it is now part of compulsory curriculum.
- Students are also warned about need to be active and limit amount of time they spend on devices through compulsory health education.
Political factor 2
Privacy laws
- Privacy Act 1988, and its amendments, regulate handling of personal information about individuals, privacy which could be compromised in an online environment.
Political factor 3
Government rebates such as childcare rebate, Medicare rebate, health care cards and various supportive employment/studying rebates are set up to support families.
