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Advanced Life Span Study –I
Paper Code:
HHD 143
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This course will enable the students to :
- Understand the developmental milestones, hazards and problems of various stages of life span.
- Intervention in life span.
- Understand changing trends in life span
12.00
Unit I:
Introduction of Life Span Development
- Defining Life Span
- Stages of development- Factors affecting conception and prenatal development
- Hazards during prenatal period
- Genetic disorders and counseling- family and twin studies
- Prenatal diagnostic techniques, Legal aspects of children and women, use ,misuse of PNDT Act
- Rights of Children (Girl Child) and women
- Women empowerment
- Equal wage act after reinforcement
12.00
Unit II:
Characteristics and Hazards
- Characteristics and Hazards of various stages of life span
- Developmental tasks of various stages of life span
- Methods of assessment of Physiological functions: Muscle control, Speech development, Emotional expressions – Development in socialization- Cognition in various stages
- Preparation of old age-need to bring attitudinal changes
12.00
Unit III:
Exceptional/ Gifted children
- Diagnosis, treatment, invention and intervention
- Pervasive psychological disorders: Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD
- Mental and Behavioral disorders
- Mainstreaming
- Genetic Counselling ,abnormalities and foeticide
12.00
Unit IV:
Vocational selection/ opportunities
- Adjustments – Marital, parenthood –complications and interventions.
- Adjustment to changes in life patterns
- Stress
- Successful aging- psychological/ vocational intervention
- Women’s rights/ domestic violence, child abuse and labour.
12.00
Unit V:
Health related issues in various stages
- Therapies in various stages
- Methods of assessment of development /changes
- Cross cultural trends in developmental studies
- Program/ project planning
- Seminar presentation
Essential Readings:
- The Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach, Leonid A. Gavrilov and N. S. Gavrilova, Harwood Academic Publishers, New York. 1991.
- How and Why We Age, Leonard Hayflick, Ballantine Books, New York; 1994.
- A Means to an End: The Biological Basis of Aging and Death, William R. Clark, Oxford University Press, New York; 1999.
- Cells, Aging, and Human Disease, Michael B. Fossel, Oxford University Press, NY; 2004.
- Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman; Rodale Press, 2004.
- Key Concepts in Social Gerontology (SAGE Key Concepts series) by Professor Judith E Phillips, Kristine J Ajrouch, and Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby Amazon, 2010.
- The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully, Joan Chittister (Barnes and Nobles, 2008.
- Social Gerontology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (New Edition) by Nancy Hooyman Barnes and Nobles, 2010.
- Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion (Revised), Elaine Polan, Barnes and Nobles, 2007.
- Evidence-Based Counseling and Psychotherapy for an Aging Population, Glicken, Academic Press, 2009.
- Mental Health and Later Life John Keady, Sue Watts, Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge, 2010.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Older People, Ian Andrew James Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.
- Dementia CareJonathan Waite, Rowan Harold Harwood, Ian Morton, David Connelly, Oxford University Press, 2008
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