By Marc H. Bornstein, Lucy Davidson, Corey L.M. Keyes, Kristin A. Moore
This quantity derived from unique displays given at a convention in Atlanta, Georgia, less than the auspices of the heart for baby future health. students, practitioners, public overall healthiness pros, and principals within the baby improvement neighborhood convened to deal with a science-based framework for parts of health and the way the weather can be constructed around the lifestyles direction. Integrating actual, cognitive, and social-emotional domain names, health and wellbeing is the 1st clinical ebook to contemplate healthiness holistically. targeting a suite of middle strengths grouped inside of those 3 domain names, the e-book additionally contains a fourth part on developmental strengths via maturity that greatly examines a continuum of healthiness and improvement, in addition to transitions in wellbeing and fitness. This quantity takes a developmental viewpoint around the lifestyles path, describing foundational strengths for well-being--the capacities that may be actively constructed, supported, or discovered. those foundational strengths--problem fixing, emotional law, and actual safety--are the optimistic underpinnings of early baby well-being and improvement, in addition to ongoing health around the existence path. operating jointly and mixing their respective disciplinary views and services, fifty three specialists in psychology, sociology, baby improvement, and drugs have contributed to the ebook.
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Secure attachment to a caregiver is likely to enable children to better resist the temptation of drugs and alcohol and early, promiscuous, unsafe sexual behavior. Parental involvement in their children’s lives and parental responsibility for their children’s care will better ensure that children receive the preventive medical attention, physical activity, and proper nutrition they require. Finally, positive cognitive development will prepare many children to make better choices and understanding the consequences of their behavior and decisions about their physical health, development, and safety, particularly as they begin to assume more responsibility over their own physical well-being.
An important feature of well-being is that its elements can be targeted for promotion and may be responsive to intervention activities. The many facets of the child’s environment, including the individual’s personal practices, family and societal systems and values, neighborhood security, quality and affordability of the public health system, institutional practices, provision of basic needs, and economic considerations, largely determine well-being and promotion of the discrete elements within any domain.
Holistic Well-Being and the Developing Child 27 petencies influence not only academic success, but success in communicating with others and finding ways to problem-solve. Just as early interactions between caregivers and infants promote the child’s first cognitive and communication skills, cognition and language, in turn, support personal and interpersonal social-emotional development across the life course. Cognitive abilities include mental capacities often vernacularly referred to as intelligence.