Child Development

Prerequisites: none
Duration: 90 minutes
Recognition:

• SOFEDUC 0.1 CEU (Continuing Education Unit) completion certificate
• Médecins francophones du Canada

Cost: Free for CSP professionals, CAD$40 for non-CPSC members.

Description

The children being followed in CSP often have compromised physical, cognitive, social and emotional development because of difficult living conditions that have generated significant, even toxic, stress in their lives. Care providers must therefore be familiar with the normal developmental process in children in order to understand how current or past difficulties are impacting their development. We will first examine the basic developmental process in the child for the following key dimensions: brain, physical, cognitive and emotional. We will then look at certain executive functions and their development, and examine how these executive functions influence the future development of other functions.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the basic developmental process in the child for the following dimensions: brain, physical, cognitive and emotional
• Understand the development of certain executive functions and how they influence the future development of other functions
• Understand the concept of “sensitive period”

Learning Assessment Method

Formative assessment “Test your knowledge” quiz.

Author

Marie-France Marin, professor, Department of Psychology at UQAM; researcher, Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal; and associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Addiction, Université de Montréal

The author declared that she had no conflicts of interest.

Production team

Céline Desjardins – Educational Designer, Community Social Pediatrics Institute
David Guillemette – Technopedagogical Specialist, Community Social Pediatrics Institute
Myriam Hivon – Director, Community Social Pediatrics Institute
Family Medicine Innovations in Learning  Program Team, McGill University

• Tamara Ellen Carver, Director – Office of Ed-TECH (Director of the Office of Educational Technology and Online Learning in Health);
• Rachel Simmons, Program Manager (Program Manager);
• Devon Myrrn MacIntyre, instructional designer
• Dylan Master Sheper, Multimedia Content Producer (Multimedia content producer).