Title: Examine growth and developmental needs of children from birth to one year of age.
Course: GRADS: Family Focus (19905-36) > Section: Understanding Child Development

Examination should include

- the stage of “being” and the acquisition of trust
- the stage of “doing,” exploration, learning, and feeling unconditional love from parents
- characteristics of physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language, and moral development.

Process Skill Questions

Thinking

- How can an established sense of trust allow the 6–12-month-old to explore with confidence and safety?
- What might the consequences be if a baby developed a sense that he/she were loved only when he/she achieved something?
- How can you demonstrate unconditional love?

Communication

- How can the adolescent parent communicate to the newborn that he/she is loved and willingly cared for?
- How can providing sensitive, consistent responses to the baby’s physical and emotional needs create a level of trust for the newborn?

Leadership

- How can feeding time provide an excellent opportunity to stimulate development?
- How do a newborn’s reflexes help him or her respond to the new environment outside the mother’s womb?
- How does a secure environment help a child grow through stranger and separation anxiety?

Management

- How does a daily schedule of providing physical care for the infant provide opportunities to stimulate the infant cognitively, socially, morally, and emotionally?
- How can a mother use a newborn’s rooting reflex to help him/her get started on a feeding?