Child & Adolescent

1. Basic Concepts and
Issues on Human
Development
Unit 1

2. Every living creature is called to become
what is meant to be
CATERPILLAR BUTTERFLY

3. SEEDS TREES

4. BABY MATURE PERSON

5. THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT
INVOLVES BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
What was this organism then?
What will this organism be?

6. Learning outcomes
• Define human development in your own
words
• Draw some principles of human
development
• Distinguish two approaches to human
development

7. activity
• Describe what they were before birth(their
point of origin ) and who they will possibly
be after birth unto adulthood.
• What will they possibly become? Expound
your answers.

8. Meaning of human development
• The pattern of movement or change that
begins at conception and continues through
the lifespan.
• It includes growth and decline- means that it
may have positive or negative

9. Some major principles of human
development
1.DEVELOPMENT IS RELATIVELY ORDERLY
• PROXIMODISTAL PATTERN - muscular
control
Ex. Learn to sit, crawl then walk before
they can run
• CEPHALOCAUDAL PATTERN – from top
to bottom
Ex. Head during infancy

11. 2. Rates of development and outcome vary
among individuals while the pattern is
likely to be similar
a. hereditary
b. Environment
*resulting to individual differencesin
developmental characteristics and
variation in the ages when people will
experience events that will influence their
development

12. 3. Development takes place gradually

13. 4. Development as a process is
complex
1. Biological
2. Cognitive
3. Socio emotional

14. BIOLOGICAL
• Physical nature
height, weight, hormonal
changes(puberty) and cardiovascular
decline(late adulthood)

15. C O G N I T I V E
• Thought, intelligence and language

16. SOCIOEMOTIONAL
• Relationships with other people, changes in
emotions, changes in personality

17. Two Approaches In Human Development
Traditional
• If you believe that
individual will show
extensive change from
birth to adolescence, little
or no change in adulthood
and decline in late old
age
Life-span
• If you believe that even in
adulthood development
change takes place as it
does during childhood

18. Characteristics of life-span perspective
according Paul Baltes.
Lifelong development involves the idea that
development is not completed in adulthood; it
encompasses the entire life span, from
conception to death.[6] The study of
development traditionally focused almost
exclusively on the changes occurring from
conception to adolescence and the gradual
decline in old age. It was believed that the five
or six decades after adolescence yielded little
to no developmental change at all.

19. Development is...
1.Life long
2.Multidimensional
3.Multidirectional
4.Multidisciplinary
5.Contextual
6.Plastic

20. 1. Lifelong- there is no greater age to study,
development occurs in all ages
2. Multidimensional-biological, cognitive,
socioemotional
3. Multidirectional-can involve both loss and
growth
4. Multidisciplinary- development can be
studied by multiple occupations
5. Contextual-development occurs within a
setting
6. Plastic-capacity for change

21. • According to Balte's development
involves:
• growth, maintenance, and regulation of
loss

22. 12 Principles of Child Development
and Learning
1. All areas of development and learning are
important.
2. Learning and development follow sequences.
3. Development and learning proceed at varying
rates.
4. Development and learning result from an
interaction of maturation and experience.
5. Early experiences have profound effects on
development and learning.
6. Development proceeds toward greater
complexity, self-regulation, and symbolic or
representational capacities.

23. 7. Children develop best when they have secure
relationships.
8. Development and learning occur in and are
influenced by multiple social and cultural
contexts.
9. Children learn in a variety of ways.
10. Play is an important vehicle for developing self-
regulation and promoting language, cognition,
and social competence.
11. Development and learning advance when children
are challenged.
12. Children’s experiences shape their motivation and
approaches to learning.