Understand human growth and development across the lifespan
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has produced a video called ‘Let’s talk about menopause’. Watch the film and make notes on anything you learn.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Child development’ on the Birth to 5 matters website
- ‘The ages and stages of child development’ from the Child Development Institute
- ‘Early adulthood’ on the website of Maricopa Community Colleges.
- ‘Midlife’ on the Psychology Today website
- ‘Late adulthood’ on the website of Maricopa Community Colleges.
- ‘What is Holistic Development?’ on the HEI Schools website
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This section of the Introduction to Psychology on the BC campus website looks at ‘Growing and developing’. Use the ‘Contents’ on the left to work through all the sections in Chapter 7 which cover from ‘Conception and Prenatal Development’ to ‘Late Adulthood: Aging, Retiring, and Bereavement’.
- The Psychology Today website includes this article on ‘The big challenge: Jumping from adolescence into adulthood. What growth and development has been identified during this time?
- This booklet from the WJEC GCSE Health and Social Care and Childcare Student Book offers a reminder of human growth and development.
- The Developmental Psychology section of the Study Smarter website contains information about cognitive, physical and social development in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Use the menu on the left to navigate to these sections.
- Think And Challenge
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