Human Growth and Development through the Lifespan

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of human growth and development across the lifespan. It is taught through the lens of Ignatian pedagogy which includes an integrative and personal approach to learning rooted in context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation. Basic theories and principles of development, influences on the developing person, and norms of development across the lifespan are discussed. Development is examined from a variety of theoretical perspectives including physical, cognitive, psychosocial, emotional, moral-spiritual, cultural, environmental, and adaptive mechanisms. Promotion of growth and development through health promotion and risk reduction are introduced. Concepts of death in the child, adolescent, and adult of various ages, and issues faced by the age group, also are discussed. Family developmental tasks and family interaction, as they influence the individual throughout the life span, are considered in each developmental era. Individual client factors such as diversity in family structures, environmental and community factors, culture, relationships,