Growth & Development
In Young Adults, because of continued cognitive development until ~ 25 yo, this is one of the main preventative concerns for this age group.
Decreasing Adverse Health Events such as Accidents, Injuries, Violence.
This tool can be used to predict heritability.
What is a Genogram
True or false:
The parent should initiate safety precautions around the house after the child has started to crawl.
False.
Initiating safety precautions should start well before the child is mobile!
While there are relatively little changes to sensory perception in Adolescence, this is a common problem that usually presents itself at this age due to increased sweat gland activity and inadequate education/understanding.
Body Odor
Name two specific examples of strategies to optimize cognitive health in older adults.
Daily crosswords, sudoku, word find puzzles
Join a social club
Take classes
Stay employed
The inability of a toddler to put him- or herself in another’s shoes is known as:
Egocentrism
Diseases with genetic components like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease are most often associated with and diagnosed in this age group.
Middle Adults
Name a strategy for retaining functional ability and optimizing physical health In Older Adults.
Playing low impact sports
Water aerobics
Walking
Weight lifting
Name at least 2 lifelong deficits that a child with failure to thrive may have.
Cognitive function
Motor abilities
Social interactions
Shortened height
Developmental delays
Who is the biggest influence on a child's health perception and health management pattern?
Parent(s)
Which of the following conditions are not normal processes of aging?
Dementia, Hypogeusia, Presbycusis, Presbyopia
Dementia
This is a genetic disorder more commonly diagnosed around preschool age
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder
This abnormal function of elimination is commonly diagnosed in school-age children.
What is Encopresis and Constipation?
Near-sightedness, or the inability to focus on close objects, is a common sensory perception change in older adults. It is also called this...
Presbyopia
According to Kohlberg's Moral Stages, Young Adults fall into either the Conventional or Post-Conventional levels. The idea that moral values can over-ride laws is which of these levels?
Post-Conventional
Post-conventional level consists of the Social Contract and Universal Ethical Principle Stages in which personal values and moral principles guide what is wrong more than society's laws.
Adolescents enter this stage of development, defined by significant hormonal changes and rapid growth, with females typically entering this at ages 8-13 and males entering it at ages 10-14.
Puberty
All of the following are genetic screening tests except:
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT)
Amniocentesis
Quad Screening
Alfafetoprotein (AFP) levels
What is Amniocentesis
In Adolescents, this is a common cause of injuries due to increased strength and increased opportunities for coordinated participation, but in the presence of developing coordination and a poor understanding/recognition of risk.
Sports
Congenital hearing loss is optimally diagnosed prior to this age.
What is 6 months old?
Bed sharing is not as common among western cultures due to fear regarding what safety concern for infants.
What is sudden infant death syndrome?
List at least one factor affecting fetal growth and development in each of the four categories (biophysical, psychosocial, sociodemographic, and environmental)c.
e.g. TORCH, Medications, Drugs of abuse, caffeine, teenage pregnancy, poverty, etc.
In young adults in particular, genetics plays a role in this developmental milestone/consideration?
Family planning
This reflex needs to disappear prior to infants starting solid foods.
Visual acuity and hearing acuity peaks in this age category.
Young adults
In this age group it is common to experience peer pressure, an over-reliance on peer perceptions, and a decreasing presence in the family unit.
Adolescence