Themes in Human Development
N 4225 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Across the Life Span

Cross-cutting  concepts
 biophysical
 nurturing
 spousehood and parenting
 cognition and communication
 social relationships
 identity
 work and play

4 broad domains…
 family
 biophysical parameters
 psycho-social concepts
 socio-cultural variables

 Family
 biologic; family of origin
 nurturant
 multiple definitions
 main agent of socialization
 factors influencing functionality

Biophysical Parameters
 genetics
 neurophysiologic
 maturational
 nutrition
 exercise
 rest and sleep
 play and leisure

 Psycho-social Concepts
 behavioral
 cognitive
 emotional
 moral/spiritual
 developmental tasks

 behavioral
 stimulus-response
 psychoanalytic
Freud, Erikson
 interpersonal
 Sullivan, Jung
 social learning
 Bandura

 cognitive
 Piaget
 sensorimotor
 pre-operational
 concrete
 formal

 moral/spiritual [not necessarily the same thing…]
 Kohlberg
Pre-conventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
Universal focus
 Gilligan
Selfish – responsible
Goodness – truth
Moral equity

 developmental
 Maslow
  hierarchial
 physiologic
 safety
 love and belonging
 esteem
 self-actualization

 Socio-cultural Variables
 culture…sum total of learned ways of doing
 learned
 subject to change but usually stable
 common components across every culture
 physical welfare, communication, property, human response patterns, family and sexual patterns
 manifest culture vs. ideal culture
 ethnicity

 socio-cultural variables relevant to HPDP activities
 cross-cultural variations in perception of health
 folk practices, spiritual/psychic healing
 ‘good health’ of variable value : proactive vs. reactive
 ‘normal’ one place may be ‘illness’ another
 culturally sensitive communication practices
 non-verbal
 silence, distance, eye contact, emotional expression, concept of time
 verbal
 formality [names, speed of speech], rapport, subjects

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