Introduction to Life Characteristics and Challenges

Introduction to Life Characteristics and Challenges

1 Biological Development

  1. Meaning of Human Development
  2. Physical Development in Infancy
  3. Physical Development in Babyhood
  4. Physical Development in Early Childhood
  5. Physical Development in Late Childhood

2 Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood

  1. Developmental Themes in Infancy and Childhood
  2. Attachments and Its Development
  3. Psychological Hazards

3 Social Development in Infancy and Childhood

  1. Meaning of Social Development
  2. Family
  3. Self and Gender Identity
  4. Moral Development
  5. Peers, Schooling, and Media

4 Cognitive Development in Infancy and Childhood

  1. Concept of Cognition
  2. Approaches to Study Cognitive Development
  3. Theories of Cognitive Development
  4. Information Processing and Advances
  5. Linguistic Development during Infancy and Childhood
  6. Intelligence and Creativity
  7. Learning and Academic Skills Development

5 Physical, Cognitive and Social Development of Adolescence

  1. The Period of Adolescence
  2. Developmental Tasks of Adolescents
  3. Cognitive Development
  4. Social Development of Adolescence
  5. Identity Crisis Among Adolescents
  6. Profile of Adolescents in India

6 Emotional and Behavioural Development

  1. Emotional Development
  2. Stages of Emotional Development
  3. Adolescence and Risk Behaviour
  4. Influencing Factors of Adolescent Behaviour

7 Challenges during Adolescence

  1. Biological and Cognitive Challenges of Adolescence
  2. Psychological and Social Challenges in Adolescence
  3. Moral and Spiritual Challenges in Adolescence
  4. Other Challenges in Adolescence
  5. Guidance and Counselling for Adolescence

8 Role and Functions of Teachers, Parents and Significant Others

  1. Basics of Parenting and Parenting Styles
  2. Role of Parents in the Life and Development of Adolescents
  3. Significance of Peers in the Development of Adolescents
  4. Role of Teachers in the Development of Adolescents

9 Establishing Family during Adulthood

  1. Adulthood โ€“ Adult and Family Development
  2. Mate Selection and Pathways to Commitment
  3. Marriage
  4. The Family Life Cycle
  5. Developmental Tasks of Establishment Phase

10 Career, Marriage and Family

  1. Work Life
  2. Marriage and Family

11 Parenting Skills

  1. Parenting as a Process
  2. Genetic Influence in Parenting
  3. Rewards and Demands of Parenting
  4. Parenting Styles
  5. Parenting Skills

12 Roles of Adult in Society

  1. The Concept of Role and Interrelationship between Role and Status
  2. The Concept of Role Behavior
  3. Classification of Roles
  4. Role Conflict and Levels of Role Conflicts
  5. Roles of Adults in a Society

13 Socio-Demographic Situation of Elderly in India

  1. Socio-Demographic Situation
  2. Concept of Ageing
  3. Elderly in the Changing Socio-Cultural Milieu
  4. Implications of Population Ageing

14 Health and Old Age

  1. Anatomical and Physiological Changes
  2. Psycho-Social Changes
  3. Implications of Age-Related Changes
  4. Societal Response and Counsellorโ€™s Role

15 Characteristics of Old Age

  1. Old Age as Disengagement
  2. Old Age as Continuity
  3. Characteristics of Old Age
  4. International and National Response
  5. Services for the Elderly: A Snapshot

16 Changing Role and Adjustment

  1. Traditional Roles in Family and Community
  2. Changing Roles in Modern Times
  3. Implications on Self and Others
  4. Concept of Active Ageing

17 Geriatric Counselling

  1. Ageing
  2. Theories on Ageing
  3. Challenges in Old Age
  4. Geriatric Counselling
  5. Roles of Geriatric Counsellor