Theories of Healthy Childhood Development

Case study 1
Running head: CASE STUDY
Case study: Theories of healthy childhood development

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Identify the domains of development.........................................................................................4
Analyze observation through developmental theories and millstones.......................................5
Identification of child strength and challenges..........................................................................7
Discuss the influences that can impact the development of child..............................................8
Determine how knowledge of development theory supports development of child and
application of this theory into practice.......................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
The early development of a child is one of the most essential developmental phases in life.
The development of a child is necessary to increase its independency throughout the life
span. This healthy childhood development consists of physical, social, as well as cognitive
domains of development. These things are equally important to have healthy growth of child.
In the early years of child if something critical happens then it can impact the development of
child route and life course (WHO, 2018). Moreover, all the children have a unique way of
developing themselves. Mostly, the children’s get influence by the environment at different
age level. Early child development also includes stable, responsive, nurturing caregiving like
safe, supportive, environment as well as appropriate nutrition.
The aim of this report is to demonstrate knowledge of development theories and how it is
applied to the development of child. The whole report is the analysis of a case study. It also
discusses the domains of development and it includes physical, thinking, social and whole
child. It also analyzes strength and challenges of the child. The report also explores the
influences that impact the development of child. It also determines the knowledge of
development theory support development of a child and how it can be implemented to
practice.

Identify the domains of development
The domain is defined as the specific aspects of growth and change. The domains of
development include the social-emotional, physical, cognitive and whole child. It is described
as below:
Physical development domain
It refers to the development of physical skills that is called as the motor skills. Motor skills
refer to the skills that provide children the capability to develop useful movements and learn
its own physical characteristics as well as learn about the nearby environment. In addition,
with the help of physical development domain, the gross movements are developed by the
children (Thill, 2019). It also includes other activities development such as fine controls,
balance and kinesthetic sense as well as hand to eye co-ordination.
Thinking development domain
Thinking development domain includes intellectual development as well as creativity. In
terms of intellectual development of child includes hold adequate attention, remember the
events, understandable environment, and capacity to predict, plan, or evaluation of any task
given. In terms of creativity, it includes acquired intelligence outcome, experience of events
as well as apply the knowledge that is gained on the daily basis. This domain depicts that