Reference Book: Human Development, Fifth Edition, By Diane E. Papalia; and Sally Wendkos Olds
Publisher: McGRAW-HILL, INC
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NOTE: Cometsa Sports Development Agency has been running volunteer youth sport development and outreach programmes for the last 15 years (1997 – 2012) in Hillbrow – Parktown - Johannesburg (Gauteng Province), Greater Sekhukhune & Jane Furse (Limpopo Province), Hammanskraal (Gauteng), Dennilton (Mpumalanga), Katlehong (Gauteng), Orange Farm (Gauteng), Mabopane (Gauteng Province) and Klopper Park – Elandsfontein (Gauteng). During this period we have come across different types of young people. We have learned that the development of these young boys and girls is influenced by many factors. As part of our 15th Anniversary Review, we have therefore taken a decision to launch a programme that will help them, us as development practitioners and their parents to drill deeper on the issues that affect their development. We are calling on all qualified humanities practitioners to volunteer their expertise as facilitators of the following topics during our Girls & Boys Development Seminars 2012 – 2013. The above reference book is just a guideline, the facilitators will have to research the topics and be relevant to today’s challenges facing the girls & boys.
Register as a Volunteer Facilitator: Attention: Ms Tsumbedzo Luvhimbi, Tel. +27 11 974 9308; Cell: +27 71 961 6272; Email: callcentre@cometsa.co.za
1. Physical Development: Growth during Middle Childhood
· Nutrition and Growth
2. Health, Fitness, and Safety
· Children’s Health
· Obesity
· Minor Medical Conditions
· Vision
· Dental Health
· General Fitness
· Improving Health & Fitness
3. Aspects of Intellectual Development in Middle Childhood
· Cognitive Development
· Moral Development
· Development of Memory
· Development of Language
· Development of Intelligence
4. Personality and Social Development in Middle Childhood
· The Self-Concept
ü Self-Recognition & Self-Definition
ü Self-Regulation
ü Self-Esteem
· Theoretical Perspectives on the Self-Concept
ü Social-Learning Theory
ü Cognitive-Development Theory
ü Information-Processing Approach
5. Aspects of Personality Development in Middle Childhood
· Everyday Life
ü How do children spend their time?
ü With whom do children spend their time?
· The Child in the Peer Group
ü Functions and influence of the Peer Group
ü Makeup of the Peer Group
ü Friendship
ü Popularity (The popular child; The unpopular child; How can unpopular children be helped?)
· The Child in the family
ü Parent-Child Relationships
Ø Issues between parents & children
Ø Discipline
Ø Control and coregulation
ü Parents’ Work: How it affects their children
Ø Mothers’ work
Ø The mother’s psychological state
Ø Interactions in working-mother families
Ø Working mothers and children’s values
Ø Children’s reactions to mothers’ work
Ø Fathers’ work
6. Children of Divorce
· Children’s adjustment to divorce: “Tasks” of adjustment
· Influences on children’s adjustment to divorce
· Helping children adjust to divorce
7. The One-Parent Family
· Stresses on children
· Effects on schooling
· Long-term effects
· Stepfamilies
· Sibling relationships
8. Childhood Emotional Disturbances
· Acting-Out Behaviour
· Anxiety Disorders
· Childhood Depression
9. Stress and Resilience
· Sources of Stress
ü Life events
ü Fears
ü The “Hurried Child”
· Coping with Stress: The Resilient Child. Factors like the following seem to contribute to children’s resilience:
ü The child’s personality
ü The child’s family
ü Learning experiences
ü Reduced risk
ü Compensating experiences
10. Physical and Intellectual Development in Adolescence
10.1.Adolescence: A Developmental Transition
10.2.Physical Development: Maturation in Adolescence
· Physical Changes
ü Puberty and the Secular Trend
ü The Adolescent Growth Spurt
ü Primary Sex Characteristics
ü Secondary Sex Characteristics
ü Menarche
· Psychological Impact on Physical Changes
ü Effects of early and late Maturation
Ø Early and late maturation in boys
Ø Early and late maturation in girls
ü Reactions to Menarche and Menstruation
ü Feelings about Physical Appearance
10.3.Health Concerns of Adolescence
· Nutrition and eating disorders
· Use and abuse of drugs
· Sexually transmitted diseases
10.4.Intellectual Development: Aspects of Intellectual Development in Adolescence
· Cognitive Development
ü Cognitive maturity: The Nature of Formal Operations
ü Tracing Cognitive Development: The Pendulum Problem
ü What Brings Cognitive Maturity About?
· Adolescence Egocentrism
ü Finding Fault with Authority Figures
ü Argumentativeness
ü Self-Consciousness
ü Self-Centeredness
ü Indecisiveness
ü Apparent Hypocrisy
· Moral Development: Kohlberg’s Levels of Morality
ü Level I: Pre-conventional Morality
ü Level II: Conventional Morality
ü Level III: Post-conventional Morality
10.5.High School
· Home Influences on Achievements in High School
ü Parents’ Interest
ü Parenting Styles
ü Socio Economic Status
10.6.Developing a Career
· Stages in Vocational Planning
· Influences on Vocational Planning
11. Personality and Social Development in Adolescence
11.1.Understanding Personality Development: Theoretical Perspectives
· “Storm and Stress”
· The Cultural Factor
· The Genital Stage
· Ego Defenses of Adolescence
· Identity vs Identity Confusion
11.2.Aspects of Personality Development in Adolescence
11.2.1. Relationship with parents
· How Adolescents and their parents conflict
ü The roots of conflict
ü The nature of conflict
· What Adolescents need from their parents
· How Adolescents are affected by their parents’ life situation
ü Parents’ employment
ü “Self-care” adolescents
· How Adolescents Spend Their Time – and with Whom?
· Friendship in Adolscence
· Peer Pressure versus Parents’ Influence
11.2.3. Achieving sexual identity
11.2.4 Two Problems of Adolescence
· Teenage Pregnancy
· Juvenile Delinquency
11. Physical and Intellectual Development in Young Adulthood
11.1. Physical Development
11.2. Intellectual Development
· Adult Thought: Theoretical Approaches
· Adult Moral Development
· College
· Starting a Career
12. Personality and Social Development in Young adult
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