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Human Growth and Development
A reading path through related lessons. Shared lessons can appear in more than one path. View curriculum coverage and limits →
What this path helps you do
- Practice supported here
- Apply developmental and learning models to case details while testing contextual and cultural explanations.
- Preparation
- Read the basic model before using a stage or process to interpret a case.
- Where to go further
- Selected lifespan examples do not cover every developmental theory, disability, or neurobiological process.
Development in context
Use developmental models as lenses rather than rigid labels.
Attachment, relationships & developmental hypotheses
Use attachment concepts without diagnosing from a single interaction.
Learning and behavior change
Distinguish reinforcement from punishment and extinction.
Sexuality, relationships & aging across the lifespan
Discuss sexual wellness and later-life change without imposing assumptions.
Developmentally responsive work with children & adolescents
Adapt a learning formulation to developmental capacities and family context.
Biology, disability & adaptation in context
Connect biological and contextual explanations without reducing a person to either.
Strengths, stress & transitions
Include supports and context when considering adaptation.
Erikson in context: useful questions and limits of stage models
Use psychosocial themes to generate client-centered questions without assigning a deficit from age.
Development across adulthood: role transitions without stereotypes
Assess a role transition by its meaning, timing, resources, and demands rather than age stereotypes.
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