NFDN 2005 Midterm Exam Review | Study Guide & Practice Questions
Growth - (answer)a quantitative change that can be measure. IE weight and height, head circumference,
body proportion, and body systems
Development - (answer)a qualitative change in skill or ability. IE learning to tie shoes or building a block
tower
The Denver II Test - (answer)A test for screening cognitive and behavioral problems in preschool
children. A subject's performance against the regular age distributed it noted. Tasks are grouped into
four categories:
- Social contact
- Fine motor skill: using smaller muscles like holding a pen
- Gross motor skills: using larger muscles like kicking a ball
Post neonatal period - (answer)28 days up to 16-17 years
Different categories of the neonatal period - (answer)- neonatal
- infancy (28 days - 1 year)
- Toddler (1-3)
- Preschool (3-5)
- School age (6-11)
- Adolescence (12+)
Family as context - (answer)a family is who they say they are
Nuclear family - (answer)Mother, father and children living as a unit
Step-family - (answer)1 parent has a child and the other doesn't
Blended family - (answer)a married couple and their children from previous marriages
, NFDN 2005 Midterm Exam Review | Study Guide & Practice Questions
extended family - (answer)a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents,
aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household.
skip generation family - (answer)a family living situation in which children live with their grandparents
and not their parents
single-parent family - (answer)a family in which only one parent is present to care for the children
General principles of care - (answer)- Work with parents/guardians
- Gear touching and explanations to the child's age
- Practice therapeutic communication skills
- Monitor children more closely than adults (children compensated differently than adults)
Play: the "work of childhood" - (answer)- Attunement (connection between people), body (physical),
object, social, imaginative, narrative, and transformative (using things in a new way)
- Imitative play is important: when they imitate the parents doing something like playing with tools or
pretending to feed a baby
- Should be developmentally appropriate
Principles of growth and development - (answer)- They are continuous processes from conception to
death
- Progress in an orderly sequence
- Different children pass through the predictable stages at different rates
- Different body systems, different developmental rates
- Development is Cephalocaudal (starts from head, then down the body)
- development proceeds from proximal to distal body parts
- Development proceeds from gross to refined skills
- Developmental stage depends on the child's ability to preform tasks NOT based on their age. Some
people develop slower or faster than others
Growth - (answer)a quantitative change that can be measure. IE weight and height, head circumference,
body proportion, and body systems
Development - (answer)a qualitative change in skill or ability. IE learning to tie shoes or building a block
tower
The Denver II Test - (answer)A test for screening cognitive and behavioral problems in preschool
children. A subject's performance against the regular age distributed it noted. Tasks are grouped into
four categories:
- Social contact
- Fine motor skill: using smaller muscles like holding a pen
- Gross motor skills: using larger muscles like kicking a ball
Post neonatal period - (answer)28 days up to 16-17 years
Different categories of the neonatal period - (answer)- neonatal
- infancy (28 days - 1 year)
- Toddler (1-3)
- Preschool (3-5)
- School age (6-11)
- Adolescence (12+)
Family as context - (answer)a family is who they say they are
Nuclear family - (answer)Mother, father and children living as a unit
Step-family - (answer)1 parent has a child and the other doesn't
Blended family - (answer)a married couple and their children from previous marriages
, NFDN 2005 Midterm Exam Review | Study Guide & Practice Questions
extended family - (answer)a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents,
aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one household.
skip generation family - (answer)a family living situation in which children live with their grandparents
and not their parents
single-parent family - (answer)a family in which only one parent is present to care for the children
General principles of care - (answer)- Work with parents/guardians
- Gear touching and explanations to the child's age
- Practice therapeutic communication skills
- Monitor children more closely than adults (children compensated differently than adults)
Play: the "work of childhood" - (answer)- Attunement (connection between people), body (physical),
object, social, imaginative, narrative, and transformative (using things in a new way)
- Imitative play is important: when they imitate the parents doing something like playing with tools or
pretending to feed a baby
- Should be developmentally appropriate
Principles of growth and development - (answer)- They are continuous processes from conception to
death
- Progress in an orderly sequence
- Different children pass through the predictable stages at different rates
- Different body systems, different developmental rates
- Development is Cephalocaudal (starts from head, then down the body)
- development proceeds from proximal to distal body parts
- Development proceeds from gross to refined skills
- Developmental stage depends on the child's ability to preform tasks NOT based on their age. Some
people develop slower or faster than others
