NURS 6200 - Developmental Constructs: Birth to Three Years

Promotes exploration of select theories and scholarly research related to development in the first three years of life. Select traditional and contemporary theories of personality development, patterns of neurophysiologic maturation, and advancement of cognitive-social-emotional development during the early years of life presented. Parenting theory and styles of parenting and the meaning of developmental change in the infant and young child to parents and family examined.