Advanced Life Span Study –I

Paper Code: 
HHd 143
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Objectives:

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: 
Unit I
  • 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: 
Unit II
  • 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: 
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: 
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: 
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

 

References: 

 Books recommended:

 

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.

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018
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