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hormone replacement therapy (medical treatment)

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Beware of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

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Here are the links to additional information about HRT and Bio-identical hormones: 5 steps to natural menopause: http://lesliekenton.com/health/into-the-bliss/5-steps-ideal-menopause-part-2/ Beware of HRT: http://lesliekenton.com/health/into-the-bliss/beware-hrt/ In the next 5 minutes, I want to share with you essential truths about hormone replacement therapy-HRT. This stuff that vitally important for you to know.

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This is a review of three psychosocial issues in late adulthood - retirement, body changes, and death. For those in my adulthood course, this relates to the last part of the Final Project regarding traditions and customs surrounding death.

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Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love (Group 27)

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Uploaded by Chels Anastasia on 2015-12-06.

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Uploaded by Chels Anastasia on 2015-12-06.

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Piaget - Stage 2 - Preoperational - Lack of Conservation

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Teaching the One-to-One Counting Principle

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Teaching the Abstraction Counting Principle

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Explanation and examples of emotional development in infants from 1-month to 12-months. For more info on babies, toddlers, and preschoolers go to http://www.thesandboxkids.com

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This is a short animation looking at 2 of the 9 Traits.

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Visual Cliff Experiment: OSU Psychology 1100.mp4

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Factors Affecting Child Development

An environmental scan completed by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health (2008b) assessed the challenges faced by professionals supporting early child development. The following themes emerged across Canada:

Early child development needs to be a priority issue in policy and practice.

Poverty is the factor creating most stress within families and undermines healthy child development.

Some population groups face considerable inability to access services related to:

- Language barriers,
- Transportation issues,
- Availability of programs and services,
- Stigma
- Cost

There is lack of coordination of services.

There are not enough human resources allocated to programs and services for early child development.

Home visiting programs have demonstrated good results, but lack scientific evidence.

Children enter school demonstrating various levels of school readiness.

These themes will need to be kept in mind when assessing the factors affecting each child's development.

To help professionals assess the factors affecting a child's development, they have been grouped into four areas:

Environmental factors

Biological factors

Interpersonal relationships

Early environments and experiences (Shanker, 2008; Blair & Diamond, 2008)

From the many factors affecting the child's development, we have taken some examples to illustrate each category.

Environmental Factors

Factor or condition

Child-level determinants

Family-level determinants

Community-level determinants

Society-level determinants

The political climate is also a significant environmental factor affecting a child's development. Below are a few relevant policy documents that undoubtedly affect the development of Ontario children:

Factor or condition

Child-level determinants

Family-level determinants

Community-level determinants

Society-level determinants

Interpersonal Relationships

Relationships are particularly important as infants learn primarily through their relationship with others. Eye contact, smiles and imitation set the stage for more sustained communication and meaningful exchanges and engagement with parents and other caregivers, and a growing world of relationships (Field, 2007; Gerhardt, 2004; Greenspan & Shanker, 2004; Shanker, 2008).

Factor or condition

Child-level determinants

Family-level determinants

Community-level determinants

Society-level determinants

Early Environments and Experiences

These have already been mentioned in the examples given. The most important early environment for an infant is her primary caregiver. How the primary caregiver responds to the child shapes the early brain pathways and builds the foundation for future learning. Early experiences involve all senses through:

Touch - e.g., skin-to-skin holding

Smell - e.g., smell of mother's skin and breastmilk

Taste - e.g., taste of breastmilk

Sight - e.g., eye contact, gazing at face

Hearing - e.g., hearing a familiar voice

A child needs experiences like these to develop her social, emotional, language, cognitive, and physical skills (Greenspan & Shanker, 2004; McCain, Mustard & Shanker, 2007; Shanker 2010). Over time these experiences become more and more complex until she has reached the ability to think symbolically, build bridges between ideas, connect feelings and develop an understanding of how the world works. All this is done through continued reciprocal interactions with adults and peers (Greenspan & Shanker, 2004; Mandler, 2004).

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Factors Affecting Child Development An environmental scan completed by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health (2008b) assessed the challenges faced by professionals supporting early child development. The following themes emerged across Canada: Early child development needs to be a priority issue in policy and practice.

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Short Doc on African Traditional Parenting Practices Part 1

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Africans have embraced Western Traditions in the name of Modernity, this film documents how our traditions as Africans can be important in raising a child and shaping them with African Traditional Values and Skills.

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3D animation - "From Conception to Birth" Music : Immediate Music - Destiny Of The Chosen

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Erikson's psychosocial development | Individuals and Society | MCAT | Khan Academy

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Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - The Big Idea in under 3 Minutes

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