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Advanced Life Span Study –I [1]

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026 [13]

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