UCA CORE: This course is designated [R] which means it satisfies your Responsibl

UCA CORE: This course is designated [R] which means it satisfies your Responsible Living component of the Lower Division Core requirement. Responsible Living courses promote the ability to address real-world problems and find ethical solutions for individuals and society.
Your role as a professional in the field of Family and Consumer Sciences and the importance of lifespan development is imperative. This assessment will allow you to further research and discover socioemotional, cognitive, and physical developments and the integral parts they play within lifespan development.
OVERVIEW: At the beginning of the semester, you selected a case study model that you have followed throughout the semester. For this final case study, you will use your selected family and compile a professional report in which you will be expected to identify what will include the identification of lifespan periods and stages, development theories, intervention process, and potential impacts of an individual and their specific cultural differences on development for their current age and context as described in the case study. This report will be written in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with references to topics and concepts presented in this course.
For this assignment, you will complete an analysis of a case study that deals with each of the following stages of lifespan development:
● Adolescence
You will use your selected case study to complete an analysis of the developmental and contextual issues related to the selected case. Each of the case studies includes a set of questions that can guide your analysis of the pertinent issues for the particular case.
Expectations
For each case study you will be expected to:
● Analyze lifespan development theories to determine the most appropriate theory/theories to apply to the case study.
● Apply the appropriate lifespan development theory to support an identified intervention process.
● Describe the potential impact of individual and cultural differences on development for the current age and context described in the case study.
● Write in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for graduate-level composition and expression.
All work should be:
● Typewritten | Double-spaced
● Times New Roman | 12 pitch font
● 1” margins
● Header should include your name and the date | Footer should include page number
● If questions are retyped, this should not be considered part of the body of the paper to meet the minimum. (8-10 pages). You can go over that if needed, but it at least needs to be 8 pages.
● Include section labels (see below) – each section will have multiple paragraphs.
Adolescence
When answering these questions, be sure to include information from your Lifespan Development in Context textbook, as well as how the information relates to your individual case study family.
I. Introduction: (½ page)
● Define lifespan development.
● Describe your chosen case study family and the variety of periods of development among each individual.
II. Physical Development: (at least 1-1 ½ pages)
● Summarize the physical changes that occur with puberty and the correlates of pubertal timing.
● Discuss the psychosocial effects of early and late puberty.
III. Cognitive Development: (at least 1-1 ½ pages)
● Discuss brain development during adolescence and its effect on behavior.
● Identify ways in which thinking changes in adolescence and how these changes are reflected in adolescent decision-making and behavior.
● Discuss moral development and influences on moral reasoning.
● Describe the challenges that school transitions pose for adolescents and the role of parents in academic achievement.
IV. Socioemotional Development: (at least 1-1 ½ pages)
● Summarize the processes by which self-concept, self-esteem, and identity change during adolescence.
● Discuss the nature of parent-child relationships in adolescence.
● Examine the developmental progression of peer relations in adolescence.
● Identify common psychological and behavioral problems in adolescence.
V. Case Discussion Questions (at least 1-1 1⁄2 pages)
● There are case discussion questions found at the end of your case study story. You will choose and respond to ONE.
● Identify in detail the specific scenario presented in the case study discussion question you chose.
● Describe the choices, decisions, and implications for the family.
VI. Conclusion (less than 1⁄2 page)
● Summarize what was introduced in the body of the paper with respect to the case study context, challenges, and interventions.
VII. Bibliographic information:
● Include your textbook (required) and any other sources (optional) used in APA format. Give the complete APA citation for each of your sources in alphabetical order. (See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ for help with formatting.
Terminology/Points of discussion for case study | Adolescence
Socioemotional Development:
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory
● Identity vs. role confusion
Global self-esteem
Identity
Identity achievement
Identity status
Identity diffusion
Identity foreclosed
Psychosocial moratorium
Ethnic identity
Post-conventional moral reasoning
Sexual identity
Sexual orientation
Cliques
Crowds
Dating violence
Self-harm
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
Physical Development:
Hormones
Puberty
Testosterone
Estrogen
Adolescent growth spurt
Primary sex characteristics
Menarche
Spermarche
Secular trend
Delayed phase preference
Cognitive Development:
Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory
● Concrete Operational Stage
○ Seriation
○ Transitive inference
○ Object identity
○ Reversibility
○ Classification
● Formal Operational Reasoning
○ Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
Adolescent egocentrism
Imaginary audience
Personal fable
Preventional reasoning
Conventional moral reasoning
Dual-systems model
Limbic system
Care orientation
Justice orientation