Concept information
Preferred term
child development
Definition
- Child development describes the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth of the child from birth to adolescence (some definitions include the prenatal period). The field of child development is part of a larger discipline known as developmental psychology (or human development in its interdisciplinary form), which is concerned with identifying and understanding systematic changes in the individual across the lifespan. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Child Development]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- alcoholism prevention programs for children
- anxiety disorders in children
- bipolar disorder in children
- child care centers
- child development across cultures
- child exposure to domestic violence
- childhood feeding disorders
- childhood perceptual development
- child physiological development
- children and sports/athletics
- children of incarcerated mothers
- children's processing of television
- children's reading comprehension
- conflict resolution in early childhood
- developmental milestones
- early childhood care, development, and education in Asia
- early childhood education in turkey
- effects of advertising on children
- effects of day care on child development
- egocentrism
- Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
- giftedness in African American children
- infant child care
- Kohlberg's stages of moral development
- language development
- measuring quality of day care
- media and children's fears
- pediatric obesity
- pediatric psychology
- peer play in early childhood
- perseveration
- play, nonsocial, and social-emotional development in childhood
- prejudice in childhood
- preschool and early childhood mastery motivation
- prevention of childhood obesity
- psychosocial dimensions of cancer
- psychotropic medications
- puberty
- religion-related child abuse
- sensorimotor stage of development
- sports and positive youth development
- street children
- theories of human development
- toddlerhood
- transitions to siblinghood
- visual impairment across the life span
- Women, Infants and Children Program
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/child_development
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