Week 2 & 3 Children at risk

Week 2 & 3Children at risk Susan Morwood

Child developmentand child abuse • Child development • Normal child development • Sexual development • Child abuse defined • Sexual • Physical • Emotional/psychological • Cumulative • Family Violence http://youtu.be/NLDqjgkZ5ts

http://youtu.be/NLDqjgkZ5ts • Child development 0 to 3 years

Child development • Development is the process that describes how humans grow. Most people who write about it agree that it proceeds in an orderly way going step by step through a series of stages. Each step completed means you move to a higher level of functioning • Development is influenced biologically (what we were born with) and by the environment (what we are exposed to) • Changes occur all the time in all aspects effecting humans eg. Biological, intellectual, emotional, social behaviours, when these interact together each influences the other’s progression.

Four principlesof childdevelopment • As children grow, theyconstruct their own rules for how the world operates • Children develop in phases • Children vary in the rate they develop • Different skills develop separately and at different rates

Children’s growth and development • Physical  Increase in size and function • Sensory  Awareness of 5 senses, sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing • Intellectual Ability to learn and to solve problems • Emotional Ability to form and sustain relationships and empathise • Social Ability for self care, work for others ie play and school, appropriate behaviour • Moral Ability to understand right and wrong through building of conscience

Children’s communicationis influenced by the following factors: • Their Thoughts - (Cognitive) • Their Mood - (Affect) • Their behaviour/pressures - (Social) • Their environment - (Situation)

Theories of Child Development Abraham Maslow introduced the idea of a hierarchy of needs: Self actualization Achievement Love Safety Food

Erickson • Stage 1- Trust/mistrust (safe/secure unsafe / mistrust) • Stage 2- Autonomy/shame (secure/confident- inadequacy/self doubt) • Stage 3- Industry v’s ineffectiveness (pride/accomplishment; competence and belief in skills) • Stage 4- Identity solidification v’s identity confusion • Stage 5- Intimacy v’s isolation • Stage 6- Integrity v’s despair

Piaget (1896-1980) • Sensorimotor- 0 – 2 yrs individuation • Preoperational 2-6 yrs Thinking,Egocentric, non-logical, non-reversible patterns • Concrete operational 6-12 yrs Solve concrete patterns • Formal Operational 12- Possibilities and abstraction

Check list • Language abilities • Motor skills/ physical abilities • Emotional range • Thinking abilities • How they play • Task they can complete • Social network • Relationships with parents - how they seek comfort

Needs v’s wants • What we need is often different to what we want. • I want chocolate when I am tired, have worked hard, think I deserve it, feel sorry for myself, or because it is Tuesday. • I need 6 types of vegetable and 2 liters of water every day • On Tuesdays this is not what I want.

Children’s needs and wants • Children need an adult who is stable and able to think about there needs often putting priority on them over there own. • Children will often want a parent who has been abusive toward them even when this parent is unable to meet their needs.

Exercise: Thinking about children’s needs and wants • Thinking of a child you know what are their Needs/Wants? • What they say they want and what they really need for a healthy, happy life? • What you think they want and need? • How do we manage the points when you/child/parent/system are not in agreement?

Class assessment task • In this task you must complete three case scenarios. • The first we will all do in class together (8/5/12) • The second you will do in class on your own and we will then discuss (15/5/12) • The third you do on your own

What have we learnt today? On your own- • Review your learning goals, have they been met today? • How are you going to use what you have learnt today in your work? • Any questions/comments With your partner- Discuss where you are up to in your learning process so far

Week 2 & 3 Children at risk