Chapter 2: Genetics, Conception, and Birth
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1. Prior to completing this discussion, please read the required chapter in the textbook, view the Prenatal Genetic Counseling video, and review any relevant Instructor Guidance.
Our advances in genetics have opened the door to improvements in the quality of life for many children, and have also initiated many debates on the ethical and moral considerations of genetic testing and intervention. In this discussion, you will demonstrate a foundational knowledge of a child’s developmental continuum from conception by addressing one of these debates for your original post.
From the required resources consulted, identify two genetic tests routinely offered to women during their pregnancy. Citing at least one of these, or choosing at least one other scholarly resource, describe at least two benefits and two risks of each procedure. In your opinion, do the benefits of these procedures outweigh the risks posed to either the mother or fetus? Why or why not? Apply this information by choosing one of the scenarios below and address the specific issues presented supporting your conclusions with references from your sources:
Choice A: Sarah and Tony are expecting their first child. When the doctor asks the couple if they are interested in having an invasive genetic test done, Sarah says, �yes�, but Tony is more hesitant and would prefer not to take the risk. What is the father�s role in this decision considering the historical and contextual role of fathers in making decisions regarding pregnancy? What other issues, including family history, financial constraints, or ethics/morals, play in the decision of whether or not these parents should move forward with genetic testing? Be sure to support your conclusions with references from your sources.
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Choice B: Kerry and Greg just found out that they are expecting a baby. Greg knows that there is a family history of sickle cell mutation, and is worried. When their doctor announces a brand new experimental procedure to intervene while the fetus is in utero and correct the mutation, Greg is very excited. Kerry, however, is concerned about the risks and what it would mean to alter the genetics of their unborn child. Provide an argument either for or against intervening with genetic development prior to birth in order to prevent developmental, learning/cognitive, or physical disabilities. What about altering things like hair or eye color, sex, or cosmetic issues (like missing or deformed limbs)? At what point should we draw the line between improving the quality of life and incorporating unnecessary risk in the quest for perfection? Be sure to support your conclusions with references from your sources.
2. Prior to completing this discussion, please read Chapter 2 in the textbook and familiarize yourself with each of the following guides: Thinglink Quick-Start Guide, Glogster Quick-Start Guide, Prezi Quick-Start Guide, Screencast-O-Matic Quick-Start Guide and Screenr Quick-Start Guide. Review any relevant Instructor Guidance.
For this discussion, you will write a script, search for photos and/or videos or other eye-catching visuals, and create a screencast that you feel captures the essence of Postpartum Depression and the effects on mother, father, as well as the developmental effects on the infant in order to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on Postpartum Depression:
To begin, create a script for your visual presentation. It must address each of the following points:
� What is Postpartum Depression?
� Analyze and comment on at least one of the following interactions of the major themes as factors influencing the developmental physical, cognitive and psychosocial outcomes for the mother, father/partner, and infant:
� Health and Well-Being
� Family and Parenting
� Education
� Culture and Gender
� How can Postpartum Depression influence the short- and long-term development of the infant?
� Address the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains of development?
� Provide at least one local and one wide-ranging (i.e. internet or phone) resource that someone with Postpartum Depression, or someone with a loved one suffering from Postpartum Depression, can access to find more information and/or get help.
� Include all relevant information on how to contact each resource.
Next, create a visual presentation which aligns with your script for a 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) on Postpartum Depression. To create this visual presentation, read the Quick Start Guides for Prezi, Glogster, and/or Thinglink, or use a more familiar tool like PowerPoint, to compile and organize your visual imagery. Remember, regardless of the mode in which you create your presentation of materials, visuals are important and can be very powerful, so use them wisely! For examples, think about some popular Public Service Announcements that you may have seen on TV recently, such as those for starving children or mistreated animals.
Finally, you will utilize a screencast tool such as Screencast-O-Matic or YouTube (or another recording tool of your choice) to record your interactive presentation with your own voiceover as a PSA. Keep in mind – 60 seconds goes very quickly. You will need to be sure to incorporate all of the information in a succinct and straightforward manner while remaining encouraging and positive as you share your learning with others (it is a PSA, after all!). It is highly recommended that you practice reading through your script while clicking through your visual presentation several times before recording to get your PSA narrowed down to the 60 second limit.
After completing your screencast for your 60-second PSA, submit your initial post with a link to your screenr.com presentation.
After completing your 60-second PSA screencast, submit your initial post in the following format:
Attach your script document using the add/remove link within the discussion post. Your script document must contain:
� Your name
� The title of your PSA
� The course number and title
� Your instructor�s name
� The URL to your visual presentation
� The screencast URL (if this was created outside of the visual presentation).
� The written script with references in APA style.
Please see the Thinglink, Glogster, and Prezi samples, as well as these Screenr screencasts for Thinglink, Glogster, and Prezi for a sample PSA on general health.
Chapter 3 Physical Development
3. For this post, you will first analyze interaction of the major themes as factors influencing the domain of physical development, specifically safety:
Health and Well-Being
Family and Parenting
Education
Culture and Gender
� Comment on how child and adolescent safety regulations have changed over the past few decades.
� Provide examples of new safety guidelines that did not exist either when you were growing up, or when your parents were growing up.
� Then, look through the recommended resources for Week Three and/or other scholarly articles from the Ashford University Library website and find and report on three statistics specifically related to child and adolescent safety from this current decade (2010-2013) within each of the three stages of infancy/toddlerhood, childhood, and adolescence. In other words, you will have one unique statistic for each of the three stages.
� Throughout your post, demonstrate a foundational knowledge of the children’s developmental continuum, from conception, by addressing unique safety standards. See the example below:
Example:?One statistic found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Website states that, �Child safety seats reduce the risk of death in passenger cars by 71% for infants, and by 54% for toddlers ages one to four years.� (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013).
Reference:?Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). Injury prevention and control: Motor vehicle safety. Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Child_Passenger_Safety/CPS-Factsheet.html.
4. Prior to completing this discussion, please read Chapter 3 in the textbook and familiarize yourself with each of the following guides: Thinglink Quick-Start Guide, Glogster Quick-Start Guide, Prezi Quick-Start Guide, Screencast-O-Matic Quick-Start Guide and Screenr Quick-Start Guide. Review any relevant Instructor Guidance.
For this discussion, you will write a script, search for photos and/or videos or other eye-catching visuals, and create a screencast which addresses the issue of childhood obesity in order to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) in order to share your continued learning acquisition in child development with others.
To begin, create a script for your visual presentation. It must address each of the following points:
� Analyze how at least one of the major themes of Health and Well-Being, Family and Parenting, Education, Culture and Gender, influences the developmental physical, cognitive and psychosocial outcomes related to childhood obesity.
� Describe the role of parents and schools in creating this problem. Also, include any other people/entities whom you feel deserve a portion of the blame and why.
� Utilize problem-solving techniques in exploring developmental issues, grounded in child development, in order to address two practical ways in which we can incorporate change to improve the health of children and families. It is important to be able to explain the role of society and community agencies in assisting families in developing the optimum learning and pro-social behavior of children. Be cognizant of the issues faced by single-parents, working parents, parents who are overweight/obese themselves, and those with other physical restrictions.
Next, create a visual presentation which aligns with your script for a 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) on childhood obesity. To create this visual presentation, read the Quick Start Guides for Prezi, Glogster, and/or Thinglink, or use a more familiar tool like PowerPoint, to compile and organize your visual imagery. Remember, regardless of the mode in which you create your presentation of materials, visuals are important and can be very powerful, so use them wisely! For examples, think about some popular Public Service Announcements that you may have seen on TV recently, such as those for starving children or mistreated animals.
Finally, you will utilize a screencast tool such as Screencast-O-Matic or YouTube (or another recording tool of your choice) to record your interactive presentation with your own voiceover as a PSA. Keep in mind – 60 seconds goes very quickly. You will need to be sure to incorporate all of the information in a succinct and straightforward manner while remaining encouraging and positive as you share your learning with others (it is a PSA, after all!). It is highly recommended that you practice reading through your script while clicking through your visual presentation several times before recording to get your PSA narrowed down to the 60 second limit.
After completing your screencast for your 60-second PSA, submit your initial post with a link to your screenr.com presentation.
After completing your 60-second PSA screencast, submit your initial post in the following format:
Attach your script document using the add/remove link within the discussion post. Your script document must contain:
� Your name
� The title of your PSA
� The course number and title
� Your instructor�s name
� The URL to your visual presentation
� The screencast URL (if this was created outside of the visual presentation).
� The written script with references in APA style.
Please see the Thinglink, Glogster, and Prezi samples, as well as these Screenr screencasts for Thinglink, Glogster, and Prezi for a sample PSA on general health.
Chapter 4: Cognitive Development
Chapter 5.9: Romantic relationships and Sex
5. In this discussion, you will explore the role of society and community agencies (more specifically, schools) in developing the optimum learning and pro-social behavior of children. In your initial post:
� Explain the major themes of Montessori-style education and typical education formats for children.
� Analyze child development research and theory by creating a bulleted list or table describing three benefits and three drawbacks of each style.
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Within your lists, consider and comment upon the developmental domains: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial.
In what ways does each style of education benefit or ignore each domain?
Explain the role of these in the development of optimum learning and pro-social behavior in children.
Consider the stages of development from toddlerhood through adolescence. In what ways are the educational needs of children and adolescents similar, and how do they differ?
6. Prior to completing this discussion, please read Chapter 4 in the textbook and familiarize yourself with each of the following guides: Thinglink Quick-Start Guide, Glogster Quick-Start Guide, Prezi Quick-Start Guide, Screencast-O-Matic Quick-Start Guide and Screenr Quick-Start Guide. Review any relevant Instructor Guidance.
First, create a script for your visual presentation. It must address each of the following points:
� At least one current statistic on teen pregnancy (since 2012).
� Analyze how at least one of the major themes of Health and Well-Being, Family and Parenting, Education, Culture and Gender positively and negatively influence the developmental physical, cognitive and psychosocial outcomes of teen pregnancy.
� Identify at least one local and one wide-ranging (i.e. internet or phone) resource from which teens, their friends, or their parents can get more information or assistance regarding teen pregnancy.
Next, create a visual presentation which aligns with your script for a 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) on teen pregnancy. To create this visual presentation, read the Quick Start Guides for Prezi, Glogster, and/or Thinglink, or use a more familiar tool like PowerPoint, to compile and organize your visual imagery. Remember, regardless of the mode in which you create your presentation of materials, visuals are important and can be very powerful, so use them wisely! For examples, think about some popular Public Service Announcements that you may have seen on TV recently, such as those for starving children or mistreated animals.
Finally, you will utilize a screencast tool such as Screencast-O-Matic or YouTube (or another recording tool of your choice) to record your interactive presentation with your own voiceover as a PSA. Keep in mind – 60 seconds goes very quickly. You will need to be sure to incorporate all of the information in a succinct and straightforward manner while remaining encouraging and positive as you share your learning with others (it is a PSA, after all!). It is highly recommended that you practice reading through your script while clicking through your visual presentation several times before recording to get your PSA narrowed down to the 60 second limit.
After completing your screencast for your 60-second PSA, submit your initial post with a link to your screenr.com presentation.
After completing your 60-second PSA screencast, submit your initial post in the following format:
Attach your script document using the add/remove link within the discussion post. Your script document must contain:
� Your name
� The title of your PSA
� The course number and title
� Your instructor�s name
� The URL to your visual presentation
� The screencast URL (if this was created outside of the visual presentation).
� The written script with references in APA style.
Please see the Thinglink, Glogster, and Prezi samples, as well as these Screenr screencasts for Thinglink, Glogster, and Prezi for a sample PSA on general health.
Child and adolescent development:
Chapter 5: Psychosocial Development
7. Describe your own attachment to your primary caregiver when you were a child as it relates to Bowlby�s theory of attachment. Then, take this online assessment on adult attachment styles. Include the following in your initial post:
� Reflect and comment on why you think you developed this attachment style as an adult, whether or not you agree, and how it is helpful to be aware of your attachment style as it relates to the value of continued learning.
� Demonstrate your knowledge of children’s developmental continuum by thinking about and commenting on how your attachment style has developed over your own lifetime.
� Does your current adult attachment style seem to fit with what you felt was your childhood attachment style? If not, why do you think that is?
8. Prior to completing this discussion, please read Chapter 5 in the textbook, review the information from Chapter One about Bronfenbrenner�s Ecological theory, read the Shetgiri et.al (2012) article, and review any relevant Instructor Guidance.
Utilize Bronfenbrenner�s ecological theory to address the topic of motivations for and influences on bullying.
� Identify and describe how a child�s environment might pre-dispose him or her to bully others. Use each of the five systems in Bronfenbrenner�s theory.
� How might parents be an influencing factor on whether or not a child is prone to bullying?
� Find and report (with proper citation) one current statistic on the factors influencing school bullying behaviors.
� Does this statistic seem to follow the same trend supported by Bronfenbrenner�s theory? If not, explain how it challenges the theory.
� Reflect on friendships in childhood and adolescence and address the positive and negative influences they can have on bullying behaviors.
Utilize problem-solving techniques in exploring developmental issues, grounded in child development, in order to provide one unique solution to reduce or stop bullying.
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