Growth and Development Assessment Project Guidelines:

Choose a person you know well and complete a developmental summary across the life span for this person. You can choose a person from any of the developmental stages. 

Determine the individual’s current stage of development: physically, cognitively, and socially and compare your findings to the developmental norms from textbooks and databases. This critique needs to be a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 5 pages. Be sure that you utilize various theories and apply these to the growth and development of your chosen person.

Objectives:

Determine an individual’s current stage of development according to textbook information and a selected theorists.

Compare the individual’s behavior, growth, and development to the textbook description and selected theorists.

Identify unmet or uncompleted tasks of the individual’s current stage of development.

Design a plan to assist the individual to achieve the tasks of his/her stage of development and future remaining stages.