You will need to find 4 articles located in scholarly journals. Scholarly journal articles are also referred as primary source peer reviewed articles. A scholarly journal article can be found in the South University Online Library. To find more information regarding utilizing the South University Library and accessing scholarly journal articles click on Library Guide. What cannot be used for this assignment are web pages, magazines, newspapers, text books, and other books. Finally, current research for our purposes is an article that was published within the last 5 to 6 years.
Remember this is a course on human development so when looking for articles make sure they are related to the subject matter covered in the course. To help in your search here are some of the major areas we covered in this course (these are meant as a guide, not specific topics to find).
Major developmental theories across the lifespan
Nature of geographic, gender, social, cognitive, emotional, and developmental factors during each period of development
Developmental factors that impact one another.
Historical and current trends in development
Current trends which may differentially impact the future development of populations in the United States
Social, and diversity issues related to developmental psychology
With the major areas above in mind, focus on at least two of the following age groups:
Childhood
Adolescence
Adulthood
Older Adults
First, give an overview of each article, including:
Write a 2-paragraph summary for each article.
Write a 1-2 paragraph analysis and evaluation for each article found.
Make sure to integrate course material in that analysis
Then, write a summary (1-2 pages) integrating what was leaned from the articles reviewed on the chosen age groups as seen from the life-span perspective. Cover the following in that summary:
What similarities did you find in the types of research and what was being studied? What differences did you find?
Based on your course readings, what developmental theories did you find that were applicable?
Explain how the life-span perspective may provide a way of better understanding the research reviewed.
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The first article by Jaworska&MacQueen, (2015) authors look at the gap that exists in the understanding of the way that brain of an adolescentdevelops. The work is based on clinical research which entails the treatment of adolescents with emerging and established forms of psychiatric disorders. In this article thus, the authors have been able to suggest that as much as basis research regard development of the brain during adolescents will appear to be thriving, the people’s understanding on how one can approach the whole development window from both the policy and clinical perspective is still an issue.
The authors argue that there is need to conduct more research on clinical aspects so that the treatment of adolescents with various psychiatric illnesses is one that is well informed. There is also great need to come up with developmental science that will be able to inform clinicians and psychiatrists on policies which are important to young people like how they can approach challenges of substance abuse(Jaworska&MacQueen, 2015). There should also be need for pre-clinical studies on nicotine, alcohol and cannabis among other substances which reveal that adolescents usually have different forms of brain response and sensitivity to these substances.
The second article by Kelly & Millar, (2017) authors discuss the transition period for the adolescents and challenges that come with negotiation the transition from dependence on parents to becoming independent. With the changes in the social relations, this is not a very unique demand for the modern youth, it however has an evolutionary history which is shared among different groups(Kelly & Millar, 2017). However, when behavioural changes are observed in an emotive and explorative behaviourduring the transition to adolescents and the underlying issues in the basis of maladaptive and adaptive functions it is important for psychiatric intervention to guide these youth in their decision.
Due to these changes, the authors argue that it is important during the transitional period from dependence on parents that adolescents are taken through emotive and explorative mechanisms where parents and guardians take time to allow them explore their goals in life as this will enable them develop positively as they transition to adulthood. Such mechanisms have continued to evolve over different generations, thus…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Major developmental theories across the lifespan
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