Advanced Study Paper –I

Paper Code: 
HHD 143
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
This course will enable the students to :
1. Understand the developmental milestones, hazards and problems of various stages of life  span.
2. Intervention in life span.
3. Understand changing trends in life span.
 
12.00
Unit I: 
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: 
Life span development
 
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
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
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
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 
 
References: 
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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