Normal Childhood Development
An increase in physical size, measured in pounds, inches, kilograms, or centimeters.
What is growth
A vague, uneasy feeling that occurs in response to a threat.
What is anxiety?
Learning to use abstract thinking.
What is cognitive development?
Adolescents who have long histories of inappropriate or maladaptive behaviors.
What is personality disorder?
For young adults centers on learning to function within a stressful environment.
What is emotional development?
The child's increasing ability in skills or functions.
What is development?
A symptom, an emotional state, and a clinical syndrome.
What is depression?
Marked by rapid periods of change and adjustment.
What is emotional development?
Continual discomfort with their assigned gender.
What is gender identity disorder?
Focuses on the young adult's ability to solve intellectual and abstract problems.
What is intellectual development?
Where growth occurs from head to tail.
What is cephalocaudal direction?
The individual has the signs or symptoms of illness without a traceable physical cause.
What is somatoform disorder?
Allows adolescents to try out new roles and place themselves in "what if" situations.
What is daydreaming?
A grossly impaired ability to function because of not being in touch with reality.
What is schizophrenia?
For young adults focuses on interactions and relationships with others.
What is social development?
Near-far pattern; for example, the central nervous system develops before the peripheral nervous system.
What is proximal-distal?
Develops following an extremely traumatic event that involves injury or threat to the child.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Young teens struggle to establish a group identity as well as a personal identity.
What is social development?
Characterized by significant distress and impaired ability to function.
What is sexual disorder?
Forces individuals to shift energies from self to caring for others.
What is parenting?
Certain times in which children are more affected by influences (positive or negative) within the environment.
What is sensitive periods?
Anxiety-based school refusal.
What is school avoidance?
Adolescents begin with questioning family values and beliefs.
What is spiritual development?
The second leading cause of death for adolescents.
What is suicide?
Freely share attitudes, opinions, and emotions.
What is effective communication?