developmental challenge
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developmental
adjective
uk/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/us/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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challenge
noun
uk/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He proposed that the life span has eight stages, each of which present a particulardevelopmentalchallenge.
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The early experiences of adversity are likely to make transitions to subsequent developmental challenges more difficult.
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First, foster care as an intervention may expose its recipients to difficult developmental challenges.
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These less effective parenting practices may relate to children's affective disturbances, interpersonal struggles, and difficulty negotiating developmental challenges throughout the life span.
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It was also important for the interventions to provide understanding of the appropriate normative developmental challenges faced by both the child and the family.
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Each of these areas may have an impact on a parent's ability to provide children with the support they require to develop a sense of mastery and negotiate developmental challenges.
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Schizophrenia onset might occur in the context of psychosocial developmental challenges to a delayed social cognitive capacity among neurodevelopmentally compromised individuals.
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Despite this last evidence, dealing with and solving developmental challenges successfully constitutes a valid perspective on how individuals cope with the problems inherent in each life-cycle.
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Furthermore, an organizational perspective on development would maintain that early and sustained maltreatment would more seriously compromise the growing child's capacities to resolve subsequent developmental challenges competently.
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Salient developmental challenges of adolescence include the development of autonomy and independence from the family, academic achievement, and the development of occupational aspirations.
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Childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are continuous, transitional periods during which risk and resiliency factors influence an individual's capacity to respond to developmental challenges.
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Thus, early competent resolution of stage-salient developmental tasks facilitates successful negotiation of successive developmental tasks, whereas difficulty mastering earlier developmental challenges may potentiate later maladaptive outcomes.
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In summary, recent research has identified that appropriate supports to assist adolescent patients with managing the combination of cancer-related concerns and normal developmental challenges are largely unavailable.
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Floortime has since made its way into homes, clinics, schools and hospitals as an effective intervention for various types of learning and developmental challenges.
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The workshop provides services to 300 adults with developmental challenges and recognize their talents by offering an environment that reinforces their confidence and self-expression.
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Whatever the underlying reason(s) are, about having large numbers of girls outside the formal schooling system brings developmental challenges to both current and future generations.
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This can only be done if all our design-related professions collaborate and thereby demonstrate co-operatively their relevance in meeting the enormous developmental challenges facing our increasingly crowded urban regions.
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