hsc

• PIES


  • Physical
  • Intellectual
  • Emotional
  • Social
• Physical development


  Relates to changes made to your body
• Life stages


  The number of different phases people go through during their lives
• Life stages


  • Infancy (birth to 2 years)
  • Early childhood (3 - 8 years)
  • Adolescence (9 - 18)
  • Early adulthood (19 - 45 years)
  • Middle adulthood (46 - 65 years)
  • Late adulthood (65+ years)
• Growth is the increase in measurable quantities such as height or weight or other dimensions
• Principles of growth


  • As height increases so does weight
  • Growth is continuous but not smooth
  • Growth varies in different parts of the body
  • There are differences in rates of growth across different genders
• Principles of development


  • Happens from head to toe
  • Happens from inside to out
  • Happens in order but at different speeds
  • Happens holistically
• Gross motor skills


  The ability to control and coordinate the movement of large parts of our body e.g. walking, running, kicking and jumping
• Fine motor skills


  The ability to control and coordinate the movement of small parts of our body e.g. writing, painting and using a phone
• Primary sexual characteristics in girls


  • Vagina
  • Vulva
  • Ovaries
• Secondary sexual characteristics in girls


  • Pubic hair
  • Breasts enlarge
  • Hips widen
• Primary sexual characteristics in boys


  • Penis
  • Testes
• Secondary sexual characteristics in boys


  • Growth of facial hair
  • Pubic hair
  • Increased muscle
  • Voice deepens
• Individuals reach physical maturity in early adulthood
• Perimenopause


  The transition period a woman experiences before reaching the menopause (when the ovaries stop making eggs). It is the gradual decrease in production of oestrogen in the ovaries.
• Perimenopause usually happens in the early 40s but can happen in the mid late 30s. It lasts 4 years approx
• The perimenopause is said to have finished when a woman has not had a period for 12 months
• Key symptoms that indicate the perimenopause has begun


  • Hot flushes and night sweats
  • Mood swings and fatigue
  • Urinary urgency
  • Loss of libido
  • Irregular or heavy periods
• Menopause


  A natural process
• Gonadotropins attempts to keep producing eggs which is what cause irritability, hot flushes and night sweats
• Symptoms during menopause


  • Hot flushes
  • Night sweats
  • Mood swings
  • Loss of libido
  • Vaginal dryness
• Signs of ageing


  • Greying hair
  • Loss of muscle tone
  • Loss of strength
  • Loss of stamina
• Self-image


  How we see ourselves
• Self-esteem

  How much you value yourself