Health and Physical Development

• Health and Physical Development:

  PROXIMODISTAL PRINCIPLE

  CEPHALOCAUDAL PRINCIPLE

  ORTHOGENIC PRINCIPLE
• Health is a lifelong process. It is influenced by personal choices over the life span and is constantly changing in response to these choices.
• Health is a constellation of “physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”
• Newborn Capabilities

  Reflexes

  Behavioral States
• According to dynamic systems theory, developments take place over time through a “self-organizing” process in which children use the sensory feedback they receive when they try different movements to modify their motor behavior in adaptive ways.
• Esther Thelen’s work has culminated in the development of the Dynamic Systems Theory to explain such motor developments.
• Sensation and Perception
• The adolescent growth spurt is triggered by an increase in the level of growth hormones circulating through the body during adolescence.
• MENARCHE - GIRL'S first menstrual period
• Glaucoma,

  increased fluid pressure in the eye, becomes more common with age and can lead to blindness if untreated.
• SPERMARCHE - the first ejaculation of semen containing ejaculate for the males
• semenarche - refers to the beginning of development of sperm in boys' testicles at puberty