Course Outline |
Week |
Topics |
1. Week |
Social and emotional development in infancy and childhood. Attachment theory and attachment
problems. |
2. Week |
Parenting styles, child-rearing styles, adjustment problems concerned with family and school. |
3. Week |
Special problems which affect emotional development of child: illness, death, divorce, child neglect,
child abuse, child adoption and step mother and father. |
4. Week |
Affective and behavioral problems in childhood and coping with these problems: anxiety disorders,
separation disorder, habituations, toilet training and its problems, fear, school phobia, jealousy,
disobedience. |
5. Week |
Behavioral problems in childhood: stealing, lying, anger and aggression, introversion. |
6. Week |
Serious mental disorders – pervasive developmental disorders – and coping with them: Autism,
Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, Heller Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder not
Otherwise Specified. |
7. Week |
Attention deficit and destructive behavior disorders: Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder,
oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder. |
8. Week |
Affective disorders in childhood and adolescence: Depression, bipolar disorder (manic depressive),
Anxiety, disorders: Obsessive compulsive disorder. |
9. Week |
Adjustmental problems in adolescence and coping with these problems: eating disorders, juvenile
delinquency, alcohol and drug addiction, parent – adolescent conflicts, suicide, schizophrenia. |
10. Week |
Acquiring identity in adolescence, adjustment problems concerned with physical changes. |
11. Week |
Work and career choice in early adulthood and adjustment problems in working marriage and family,
parents’ roles and adjustment problems. |
12. Week |
Developmental process in middle adulthood and adjustment problems: Physical, cognitive, sexual
changes (menopouse, andropause) and coping with these problems. |
13. Week |
Work and career problems in middle adulthood, adjustment to retirement. |
14. Week |
Adjustment to the physical and cognitive changes in late adulthood. Domentia and Alzheimer
diseases. |
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