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| First four weeks after birth |
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| Parental vision of the perfection of their offspring which modifies over time |
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| Close mutual attachment between infant/parent dyad, with baby dependent |
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| Anxiety of a young child when separated from person or thing to which it has strong emotional attachment, usually parent but sometimes objects (i.e. security object) |
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| Child's ability to use her or himself as a reference for understanding the world; sense of self |
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| Resisting direction from others, leading to separation and understanding self determinism |
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| Focusing constantly on identifying appropriate behavior and praising the child for it while avoiding castigating child for negative behavior |
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| Children basing behavior on activities of others to achieve competence by imitation, practice, and peer or adult feedback |
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| Usual age ranges for child to sit, walk, talk, copy shapes, etc. |
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| Evaluation by professional to determine child's personal-social, fine motor, gross motor and language abilities |
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| Delay in any one of key milestones, making it necessary in some cases to label child as delayed to get services |
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| Praising child for success, which builds child's self esteem. |
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| Stepping into health problem issues in order to facilitate change |
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| Primary Sex Characteristics |
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| Features of the reproductive organs |
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| Secondary Sex Characteristics |
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| Change in shape, body hair, and voice that accompany primary sex development and that occur at puberty |
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| Adolescents who are often rejected by peers |
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| Differentiation and separation from parents; sense of self |
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| Parental Responsibility Issues |
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| Topics such as trust, driving, sex, birth control, and venereal disease |
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| Adolescents who have a more difficult time than other teens because of lack of security, mistrust of family ethic, uncovered repressed anger, playing parents off against each other, and loneliness |
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