A child in health and illness: a compendium of knowledge for a psychologist 2500-PL-PS-FS-11

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Term 2023L:

The lectures include discussion of:
- key issues regarding how to assess the physical, motor and sexual development of children and adolescents
- the most common disorders and diseases occurring from the fetal period to somatic maturity
The aim is to draw students' attention to the importance of physical, motor and sexual development in the mental and social formation of an individual.
The lectures enable students to learn about the proper course of physical development as well as the most common disorders occurring in the developmental age population, including: with growth deficiency, obesity, sexual development disorders. Issues concerning the population of chronically ill people are highlighted, especially those suffering from early childhood (child sick from birth, type 1 diabetes). The most important groups of developmental disorders will be presented separately, such as growth and nutritional disorders (including the fetal hypothesis of civilization diseases, fetal programming, thrifty pheno-type, developmental origins of health and disease) and disorders of gender differentiation (formerly called body and sex), taking into account the issue of a newborn with abnormal external genital organs.
The organization of medical care for children and adolescents, prenatal and screening tests, the vaccination system, the situation and rights of hospitalized children, indications and contraindications to various forms of physical activity (counteracting lifestyle diseases: hypertension, metabolic syndrome) will be discussed separately.

Prerequisites (description)

(in Polish) kryteria naboru: - rok II-V

Learning outcomes

K_W07, K_W10; K_U04, K-U05; K_K01, K_K03, K_K04.

Description:
The student knows the basic phases of the development period and assessment methods routinely used to evaluate the course of development from the fetal period to the end of the development period (24-25 years); is able to use body size standards, knows the principle of assessing the course of development using percentile measures (percentiles, percentile grid) and norming using the average and the value of standard deviation from the mean, knows the principle of assessing weight and height proportions; knows the principles of assessing the degree of sexual development and is able to characterize the beginning and course of puberty depending on gender; knows the rules of conduct in the event of a child being born with abnormal sexual organs; can present the effects of disturbed energy balance in children and adolescents, both short- and long-term; is able to list the basic methods of prevention used routinely during the development period; understands the methods of determining the depth of a child's delay in physical and motor development (K_W07 and K_W10).
The student is able to select appropriate sources to promote principles of prevention based on scientific facts (neonatal screening, vaccinations, systematic measurements of height and weight, assessment of motor development) and medical care (pharmacological and/or surgical treatment versus dietary supplements, " healers, herbalists) over the child (K_U04 and K-U05).
The student is able to use the knowledge about the course and methods of controlling physical and motor development to take actions for the benefit of other people and even entire populations; can plan activities to support the development of healthy and chronically ill children; understands the need to expand and/or update knowledge in professional life about methods of differentiating the causes of physical and motor development disorders during the development period (K_K01, K_K03, K_K04).

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