What´s Spiritual Development

Spiritual:

I think spiritual development determines and helps with how a child behaves during this stage. Depending on the type of spirituality and connection of a higher source, it helps to teach and distinguish between right and wrong. I believe this helps with the state of mind that many young children carry throughout this stage life. In the district where I am employed, the community is a big believer in God. In my class when we I have discussions on certain topics, the students always refer back to the bible or their believes. If a student is my class gets in trouble and does something that does not seem appropriate, the students will make comments like what would Jesus do, or you know that God does not like that. So I do believe it has a major impact on the lives of our students.

Intellectual:

During this stage, a child's metamemory, selective attention, and the use of mnemonic strategies begin to improve. They gain better skills in information processing abilities. Middle childhood through adolescence allows student's intelligence to be measured in different ways. There is a major growth in pragmatics, use of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. They develop reading comprehension skills, and writings skills also. During middle childhood and adolescents, different sources of learning problems may be recognized or acknowledged. Students may have some type of learning disability, ADHD, or dyslexia. Children with dyslexia usually has a parent who has dyslexia also. This is why we have 504's and IEPs to make sure all children with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate education. There may also be communicative disorders such as articulation, expressive/receptive communication disorder, or stuttering.

Emotional:

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...ment or employment status

• concern with appearance, weight, and aging

Continuous exposure to stressors can lead to a decline in the immune system, or the reduction in the body's ability to handle stressful situations. The following are different way to cope or deal with stressors:

• Problem-focused coping: is attempt to manage a stressful problem or situation by directly changing situation to make it less stressful.

• Emotion-focused: coping involves conscious regulation of emotion.

• Defense coping: involves unconscious strategies that distort or deny true nature of the situation.

• Seek control over the situation producing the stress

• Redefine “threat” as “challenge”

• Find social support

• Use relaxation techniques

Works Cited

Broderick, P. C. & Blewitt, P. (2010). The life span (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.