Impact of Significant Life Events on Individuals and Their Social Networks

Effect of
significa
nt life
events
on
individua
l and
their
social
network

Introduction
 Significant life events are major or minor changes affecting a person
lifelong (Dean and Lin, 2013)
 These can be normative or non normative life events
 Normative life events are expected events which are bound to
happen with advancing age
 Non normative life events are unexpected as well as unpredictable
changes which cause significant changes (Papalia et al., 2013)
 This presentation holds information regarding impact of such events
on individual at different stages of life
 It also gives information regarding group response and impact for
others in health and social care

LO 1 understanding of how significant life event
impact an individual and their social network
 Impact of down syndrome on individual and their social
network at various stages of life
 Around half of all children and adults with this syndrome come
across major health issues
 Common mental health concerns include: general anxiety,
obsessive compulsion behavior, sleep difficulties, loss of
cognitive skills, depression, autistic conditions, neuro
psychological problems
 This varies depending on age of the affected individual:
childhood, adolescent, adult hood or older age

Concerns in young and early school age children
 Vulnerability in these individuals increases
 This is due to limitations in language and communication skills,
 cognitive issues
 non verbal problem solving criteria
 They show disruptive, hyperactive, impulsive, inattentive, oppositional
behavior
 They also show anxious, stuck and inflexible behavior
 Chronic sleep difficulties
 day time sleepiness
 fatigue
 mood swings