Child and Adolescent Development: Stages and Nutritional Needs
Childhood Stages
Every human being under 18 years of age has rights.
Periods of Childhood
- Newborn
- Infant
- Toddler (2-3 years)
- Preschool (4-6 years)
- School Age (6-12 years)
- Adolescence (12-18 years)
- From birth to about a year, a child’s height increases by approximately 50%.
- Height increases by another 50% over the next 5 years.
Preschool
- Between 3 and 6 years, annual increases in weight are about two pounds, and height increases are about six inches each year.
- A decrease in growth can result in a poor appetite
Cultural Concepts, Parenting Styles, and Social Theories
Cultural Concepts
Cultural Appropriation: When a person or group adopts aspects of another culture in a way that is considered inappropriate or unacknowledged. This often occurs when members of a majority group adopt cultural elements of a minority group in an exploitative, disrespectful, or stereotypical way.
Assimilation: When immigrant groups are encouraged to “adopt the culture, values, and social behaviors of their host nation.” This means shedding or hiding aspects of one’s culture, including
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The Socialization Process
It is the process by which various agents of a corporation act on the members of this order to acquire, use, and develop behaviors, motives, feelings, interests, attitudes, and values, ultimately personality characteristics and modes of action, which that society accepts and considers appropriate.
Personality Typology
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Current Family Characteristics
Venezuelan family is the backbone that has enabled the country
Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences
Ethnography
Ethnography has been conceived as the science which describes and classifies cultures or peoples.
Features:
- Direct observation
- Working with unstructured data
- Working with hypotheses
- Having a new number of recorded data
- Exploring nature
Reach:
- Describes
- Interprets
- Includes
- Theorizes
Example: School textbooks which do not have the same rating. Children and teachers have their own socio-cultural patterns, which are not taken into account when incorporating them into the school. They have their own models
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Research Methods: An Overview
You could say that the research aims to discover something, investigate, and respond systematically to the many questions that human beings do.
Types of Research
Three types of research are:
- Historical: Description of what it was.
- Descriptive: Interpretation of what it is.
- Experimental: Description of what will be.
Historical research is applicable to any discipline. Its primary goal is a “search critique of reality and truth” supported by past events.
Descriptive research
Read MoreHuman Sociability, Socialization, and Individual-Society Relations
Human Sociability
Sociability is the innate tendency to live in society and the basic inclination to live with others. It’s not just about territory but also about responsibility and ensuring the survival of each individual within the group.
Biological Basis of Sociability
Humans possess several characteristics inherited biologically:
Instinctual Indeterminacy
Unlike animals with comprehensive instincts, humans lack a similar pattern. To overcome this indeterminacy, humans go through a learning stage
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