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Topic 3 Developmental Tasks and Challenges

The document discusses developmental tasks across the lifespan. It defines developmental tasks as skills and competencies acquired as a person gains mastery over their environment. Developmental tasks are ordered and build upon each other. Examples of tasks for different life stages like infancy, toddlerhood, adolescence and adulthood are provided. The document also discusses challenges like risk factors, protective factors and resilience through the lifespan.

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Topic 3 Developmental Tasks and Challenges

The document discusses developmental tasks across the lifespan. It defines developmental tasks as skills and competencies acquired as a person gains mastery over their environment. Developmental tasks are ordered and build upon each other. Examples of tasks for different life stages like infancy, toddlerhood, adolescence and adulthood are provided. The document also discusses challenges like risk factors, protective factors and resilience through the lifespan.

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FEM3001

TOPIC3
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
CHALLENGES ACROSS LIFE-CYCLE:

Various capacity, types, durations, timing


Various factors may influence them or
influence the impact of the challenges

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Risk factors; protective factors
A resilient person can survive best

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DEVELOPMENTAL TASK AND
CHALLENGES

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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

Robert Havighurst (1953) theory of


developmental tasks.

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Emphasized the interrelationship of
physical, social, emotional, and
intellectual aspects of development.
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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .
Definition:
A developmental task is a task to be
performed or achieved during a

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certain period in a persons life.
It represents culture's definition of
"normal" development at different
points in the life span.
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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .
Definition:
It consist of a set of skills and
competences that are acquired as the

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person gains increased mastery over
the environment.
Many developmental tasks are
related to the society in which an
individual lives .
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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

Most people accomplish developmental


tasks in a certain order.

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Successfully accomplish one task before
going on to a task at the next level.
Interrelationship of the factors.

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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

NO LIFE STAGE NO DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS


1 INFANCY 1 Social attachment
2 Sensorimotor intelligence

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3 Object permanence
4 Maturation of motor function

2 TODDLERHOOD 1 Self-control

2 Language development
3 Fantasy and play
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4 Elaboration of locomotion.
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

NO LIFE STAGE NO DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS


3 EARLY 1 Sex role identification
SCHOOL AGE
2 Early moral development

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3 Concrete operations
4 Group play

4 MIDDLE 1 Social cooperation


SCHOOL AGE
2 Self-evaluation
3 Skill learning
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4 Team play
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

NO LIFE STAGE NO DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS


5 EARLY 1 Physical maturation
ADOLESCENCE
2 Formal operations

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3 Membership in the peer group
4 Heterosexual relationships

6 LATER 1 Autonomy from parents


ADOELSCENCE
2 Identity; Sex role identity
3 Internalized morality
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4 Career choice
DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

NO LIFE STAGE NO DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS


7 EARLY ADULTHOOD 1 Marriage
2 Childbearing

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3 Work
4 Lifestyle

8 MIDDLE ADULTHOOD 1 Management of the household


2 Child rearing
3 Management of a career

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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS .

NO LIFE STAGE NO DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS


9 LATER 1 Redirection of energy into new roles
ADULTHOOD

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2 Acceptance of one life
3 Developing a point of view about
death

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CHALLENGES ACROSS LIFE-CYCLE:

Risk factors
Factors that impede/hinder development or
process of development
Protective factors
Factors facilitate/promote development or

FEM3001/SEM 2/2016-2017
process of development
Risk & protective factors
Individual/family/other contexts
Individual low self-esteem, poor social
skills (risk); high self-esteem, coping skill, 13
assertiveness , resilient (protective)
CHALLENGES ACROSS LIFE-CYCLE:

Resiliency
Ability to overcome challenges/to bounce back in the
face of challenges.
A resilient person can survive best

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PSYCHOSOCIAL CRISIS.

NO LIFE STAGE PSYCHOSOCIAL CRISIS


1 INFANCY Trust versus mistrust
2 TODDLERHOOD Autonomy versus shame and doubt

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3 EARLY SCHOOL AGE Initiative versus guilt
4 MIDDLE SCHOOL AGE Industry versus inferiority
5 ADOLESCENCE Identity versus role diffusion
6 YOUNG ADULTHOOD Intimacy versus isolation
7 MIDDLE ADULTHOOD Generativity versus stagnation
8 LATER ADULTHOOD Integrity versus despair

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Class Activity

Give examples of risk and protective factors for


human development;

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Individual
Family
School/community

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