Human Growth and Development Case Study
Introduction:
In the following assignment I am going to outline the different patterns of development in adolescence such as physical, cognitive and socio-emotional in relation to Erik Eriksons Psychosocial development theory. I will then relate them to John’s situation and how his caregivers and other significant people in his life can respond to these needs.
I will also identify other supports such as social groups and clubs outside of John’s immediate caregivers which could help support his needs being met.
And finally I will give the key skills and strengths of a person working with adolescence and the attitude that is needed to work in an environment where they may face difficult tasks on a daily basis.
Main body:
A.)
In John as in all young adolesence the normal patterns of physical development can start in the early teens and continue on until the young adolesence reach's their late teens.
The first noticable change that occurs is their height and weight growth, at this stage teens can become very clumsy as their hand and feet tend to grow before their body does and their weight mass changes as boys muscle growth develops throughout puberty.
There is also a change in their physical look aswell, they start to grow facial hair and pubic hair in the gental area, their is penis growth and also a change in their voice as it becomes a lot deeper.
In Johns situation because he is a lot smaller in stature towards other children his age it would give him a lot of reassurance if his caregivers reassured that some teenagers take a lot longer than others to develop and he still has a lot of years of growing left to do, as in many situations some teens can take up to the age of eighteen to start to take a major growth spurt.
The second pattern of development in adolesence is their cognitive development, the developing teenager acquires the ability to think systematically about all logical relationships within a problem. Each adolescent progresses at varying
In the following assignment I am going to outline the different patterns of development in adolescence such as physical, cognitive and socio-emotional in relation to Erik Eriksons Psychosocial development theory. I will then relate them to John’s situation and how his caregivers and other significant people in his life can respond to these needs.
I will also identify other supports such as social groups and clubs outside of John’s immediate caregivers which could help support his needs being met.
And finally I will give the key skills and strengths of a person working with adolescence and the attitude that is needed to work in an environment where they may face difficult tasks on a daily basis.
Main body:
A.)
In John as in all young adolesence the normal patterns of physical development can start in the early teens and continue on until the young adolesence reach's their late teens.
The first noticable change that occurs is their height and weight growth, at this stage teens can become very clumsy as their hand and feet tend to grow before their body does and their weight mass changes as boys muscle growth develops throughout puberty.
There is also a change in their physical look aswell, they start to grow facial hair and pubic hair in the gental area, their is penis growth and also a change in their voice as it becomes a lot deeper.
In Johns situation because he is a lot smaller in stature towards other children his age it would give him a lot of reassurance if his caregivers reassured that some teenagers take a lot longer than others to develop and he still has a lot of years of growing left to do, as in many situations some teens can take up to the age of eighteen to start to take a major growth spurt.
The second pattern of development in adolesence is their cognitive development, the developing teenager acquires the ability to think systematically about all logical relationships within a problem. Each adolescent progresses at varying