Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
A Health Promotion Focus
- 3rd Edition - August 14, 2021
- Authors: Gloria Leifer, Eve Fleck
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 0 9 4 0 - 5
- formats.LooseLeaf ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 1 1 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 0 9 4 3 - 6
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Request a sales quotePromote healthy behaviors and healthy lifestyles throughout the life cycle! Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 3rd Edition helps you plan and implement appropriate care for patients at each age and stage of life. Explaining concepts of physical, cognitive, social, and personality development, this text provides strategies for improving patient health and quality of life for each age group. Healthy People 2030 objectives are used to set a framework for positive health behaviors. From noted educators and authors Gloria Leifer and Eve Fleck, this book shows how a knowledge of normal growth and aberrations can be used to design individual approaches to patient care.
- Patient teaching strategies are provided for every development stage, providing age-appropriate patient education tips.
- Cultural influences on health are included in a separate Cultural Considerations in Health Care chapter and in special boxes throughout the text.
- Lifespan Considerations boxes focus on issues specific to development stages.
- Health Promotion boxes highlight critical health issues related to each life stage.
- Safety Alert boxes focus on key safety issues for each life stage.
- Critical Thinking scenarios and questions appear at the end of each chapter to help you consider all variables when planning care across the lifespan.
- Learning features include objectives, key terms, key points, and review questions in each chapter.
Students in LPN/LVN (43,952 completions*) and Diploma/ADN-level programs (83,955 completions*)
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributor
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Healthy People 2030
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Progress and Goals Yet to be Achieved
- Issues and Goals Related to Phases of the Life Cycle
- Role of the Health-Care Worker in Achieving Healthy People 2030 Goals
- World Health
- Review Questions
- Chapter 2: Government Influences on Health Care
- Key Terms
- The Importance of Understanding the Role of Government In Health Care
- Health-Care Legislation
- Hospitals and Nursing Schools
- The Multidisciplinary Health-Care Team
- Nurse Practice Acts
- Patient’s Bill of Rights
- The Government’s Role in Health Care
- The Rising Costs of Health Care
- Global Health
- The Future of Health Care
- Review Questions
- Chapter 3: Cultural Considerations Across the Lifespan and in Health and Illness
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Culture and Pregnancy
- Culture and the Newborn
- Culture and the Child
- Culture and the Adolescent
- Culture and the Adult
- Culture and the Older Adult
- Culture and Health Beliefs
- Culture and Illness
- Culture and Death
- Culture and Teaching
- Culture and Food
- Complementary and Alternative Therapies and Culture
- The Government’s Role in Promoting Culturally Competent Care
- Review Questions
- Chapter 4: The Influence of Family on Developing a Lifestyle
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Effect of Family on Growth and Development of the Child
- Understanding Families Through Theories
- Growth and Development of the Family
- Influence of Digital Media and Technology
- Effects of a Disaster on Family and Development
- Effect of Community on Family and Development
- Healthy Lifestyle Habits
- Family-Centered Health Care
- Review Questions
- Chapter 5: Theories of Development
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Importance of Understanding Developmental Theories
- The History of Developmental Theories and Behavioral Pediatrics
- Selected Theories of Development
- Review Questions
- Chapter 6: Prenatal Influences on Healthy Development
- Key Terms
- The Human Genome Project
- Heredity
- Fetal Development
- The Prenatal Phase
- The Birth Process
- The Newborn Infant
- The Transition to Motherhood
- Fathers or Significant Others
- Siblings
- Grandparents
- Developmental Tasks and Responses of the Neonate
- Review Questions
- Chapter 7: The Infant
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Developmental Tasks
- Health Maintenance
- Review Questions
- Chapter 8: Early Childhood
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Developmental Tasks
- Physiological Changes
- Psychosocial Development
- Teaching Techniques
- Review Questions
- Chapter 9: Middle Childhood
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Physiological Changes
- Cognitive Development
- Psychosocial Development
- Alcohol and Substance Use
- Teaching Techniques
- Discipline
- Review Questions
- Chapter 10: Adolescence
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Developmental Tasks
- Physiological Changes
- Cognitive Development
- Peer Relationships
- Sexuality, Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity
- Teaching Techniques
- Review Questions
- Chapter 11: Young Adulthood
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Developmental Tasks
- Physiological Changes
- Physical Activity
- Women’s Health
- Men’s Health
- Psychosocial Development
- Teaching Techniques
- Review Questions
- Chapter 12: Middle Adulthood
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Developmental Tasks
- Challenges
- Sexuality
- Physical Activity
- Teaching Techniques
- Review Questions
- Chapter 13: Late Adulthood
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Statistics
- Living Arrangements
- Challenges And Problems
- Psychosocial Development
- Psychosocial Issues
- Clinical Disease
- Physical Activity
- Teaching Techniques
- Review Questions
- Chapter 14: Advanced Old Age and Geriatrics
- Key Terms
- Definition
- Theories of the Aging Process
- Cellular Changes
- Physiological Changes
- Sexuality
- Psychological Changes
- Developmental Tasks
- Role of the Health-Care Worker
- Review Questions
- Chapter 15: Planning for the End of Life
- Key Terms
- Death as Part of the Life Cycle
- Signs and Symptoms of Death
- The Process of Dying
- Ethical and Legal Issues
- Role of the Health-Care Worker in End-of-Life Care
- Children’s Concept of Dying and Death
- Physical Care After Death
- Review Questions
- Chapter 16: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
- Key Terms
- The Concept of Loss
- Normal Losses During the Life Cycle
- Abnormal or Atypical Losses
- Responses to Loss
- Tasks Associated with Death
- Grief Early in the Life Cycle
- The Healing Process
- Helping Grieving Survivors
- Review Questions
- Appendix A: Multilingual Glossary of Symptoms
- Glossary
- Bibliography and Online Resources
- Answers to Review Questions
- Index
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: August 14, 2021
- Imprint: Saunders
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323809405
- formats.LooseLeaf ISBN: 9780443111150
- eBook ISBN: 9780323809436
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Gloria Leifer
Gloria Leifer, MA, RN, CNE, is a professor of obstetric and pediatric nursing at Riverside City College in Riverside, California. Gloria has been the lead author on this title for all eight editions.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Obstetric and Pediatric Nursing, Riverside City College, Riverside, CaliforniaEF
Eve Fleck
Eve Fleck, MS, ACE GFI, ACE PT, NASM CPT, is a lecturer in the College of Health and Human Development, teaching physiology of aging and health, at California State University, Northridge.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, College of Health and Human Development, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, California.