IS07 Development Island - Development through the life cycle

A ten week course covering different aspects of ethics.

 

 

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. The unit will provide students with an overview of development as a process that continues throughout life, and has physical, social and psychological themes which are intertwined and which affect one another. The failure to develop will be investigated along with theories of bodily, social, cognitive and emotional development. Development stage theories will be evaluated in the context of the purpose of development. By the end of the unit, students will be able to draw on the different developmental theories to explain the progress of development. Learning is flexible and dynamic, taking place via webpages, discussion forums and chatroom tutorials.

Learning outcomes

  1. knowledge of different developmental theories to explain the progress of development and developmental delay in the context of the stages of psychological development across the whole life span
  2. ability to evaluate models of development and the most appropriate model in relation to examples of developmental delay
  3. ability to synthesize strategies for therapeutically intervening in situations where there is developmental delay
  4. ability to justify evaluations and choice of model to peers
  5. update of contemporary psychotherapy/counselling literature and developments in the field
  6. ability to use written expression in conjunction with appropriate academic sources and conventions to present logical analysis and argument in relation to the unit
  7. skills in use of collaborative eLearning methods and online resources
 

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.