Unit 6- Development through the life cycle

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Course material overview

There are ten weeks, covering different aspects of ethics. We think of them as different places on "Development Island". They are:

• Week 1- Introduction to Development through the life cycle: Development Nursery

• Week 2- Distress and development: Disability Fog

• Week 3- Bodily development: Physical Gym

• Week 4- Developmental Stage Theories: Mental Peak

• Week 5- Social Development: Relationship School

• Week 6- Emotional Development: Theme River

• Week 7- Developmental Themes: Stages Coach

• Week 8- Life Stages: Recovery Tracks

• Week 9- Reparative Development: Transcendence Hearth

• Week 10- Transcendence: Lifespan Altar

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Aims

This unit will provide students with an overview development as a process that continues throughout life, and has physical, social and psychological themes which are intertwined and which affect one another.

Resources

You will not be required to buy any books, but you may want to look at the main text for the unit which is:

Sugarman , L. (2000) Life-span Development: Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies. Psychology Press Taylor & Francis.