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• Pearson BTEC National Health and Social Care Student Book 1
• Student Book 1
• BTEC National
• Health and Social Care
• For the 2016 specification
• Includes an online digital edition
• Other resources: Student Book 2, Covers units 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19 and 24
• For tutors/teachers: Teaching Packs available for Units 1–8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19 and 24 through ActiveLearn Digital Service. Standalone or institutional ActiveBook licences also available.
• Revision Guide and Revision Workbook
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• Our Health and Social Care Student Books include a wide range of units. Student Book 1 covers all mandatory units and a range of optional units for the Certificate, Extended Certificate and Foundation Diploma qualifications.
• Student Book 2, which is available to purchase separately, contains additional mandatory and optional units for the Diploma and Extended Diploma sizes of qualification.
• This book will enable you to: explore the key aspects of human growth and development and learn how theories and models of development can be used to explain and interpret human behaviour; learn about the principles and practicalities of working in this sector and understand the skills and values you'll need for a career in health or social care; learn and apply the knowledge you need to progress – whether to the world of work or further studies.
• ActiveLearn Digital Service is Pearson's online independent learning resource for the classroom and at home. ActiveLearn supports all your delivery needs, including planning and teaching resources and e-learning activities to provide effective and detailed support for your learners. Upload your own links and resources, to make this a one-stop shop for all your teaching and learning needs.
• This book includes access to a digital ActiveBook version, making it easy to personalise learning and perfect for revision.
• Gain insight into the different job roles in this rewarding field through case studies of a range of professionals talking about the work they do.
• Get practical advice and guidance on how to prepare for your exam or set tasks in Units 1, 2 and 3, including sample answers with commentary.
• Develop skills in self-reflection, independent enquiry, critical thinking and problem solving through targeted tasks and features.
• Pearson is committed to reducing its impact on the environment by using responsibly sourced and recycled paper.
• Office of National Statistics under a Click Use licence; p.48 Figure 1.4 Average changes in household incomes bar chart is reproduced by permission of Poverty.org; p.55 Figure 1.5 The Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory - "This survey is used with special permission by The American Institute of Stress. To read more on this or other stress and health topics please visit www.stress.org"; p.104 Table 2.3 Examples of types of waste and appropriate methods of disposal was adapted from Nolan, Y (1998) Care NVQ Level 2, p.78. Published by Pearson Education; p.125 Information on Ofsted: Common inspection framework: education, skills and early years from September 2015 was taken from Ofsted. Used by the Government Open
• Physical, intellectual, emotional and social development


  Different aspects of an individual's development across their lifespan
• Factors affecting an individual's growth and development include the environment or genetic inheritance
• Factors affecting an individual's growth and development can have positive and negative influences on development, including the impact on an individual's concept of self
• The physical effects of ageing and the theories that help to explain psychological changes will be explored
• Assessment


  Paper-based examination, lasting for 1 hour 30 minutes, that is worth 90 marks. The examination will consist of short- and long-answer questions.
• The questions are intended to assess your understanding of growth and development throughout an individual's lifespan and how this may be affected by personal and environmental factors, health and the effects of ageing
• You will be expected to make reasoned connections between theories and models of human growth and development to demonstrate your understanding
• You will give your answers in response to the information you are given in case studies about members of one family
• Essential content


  • Human growth and development through the life stages
  • Factors affecting human growth and development
  • Effects of ageing
• Physical growth and development continues throughout a person's life but it is not always smooth
• Key features of physical growth and development at each life stage


  • Birth and infancy (0-2 years)
  • Early childhood (3-8 years)
  • Adolescence (9-18 years)
  • Early adulthood (19-45 years)
  • Middle adulthood (46-65 years)
  • Later adulthood (65 years onwards)
• Growth


  An increase in a measurable quantity such as height or weight or other dimensions
• Development


  Complex changes in skills and capabilities that an individual experiences as they grow
• Growth is continuous but the rate is not smooth
• There can be periods of more rapid growth in infancy and again during puberty
• Growth rates also vary in different parts of the body, for example the head circumference grows more rapidly than other areas in the first months of life
• At birth and then between six to eight weeks, a baby's head circumference will be measured to check the size and growth of the brain
• Infants grow rapidly during the first six months of their lives
• Healthy newborns double their birth weight by four to five months, and triple it by the time they reach a year old
• By the age of two, a healthy infant will be approximately half their adult height