Middle aged children development issues

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[...] Middle-aged children or children aged between 6 to 11 years undergo various development changes. The development of middle-aged children refers to the various emotional, sexual, mental, physical and moral developments that occur to children at the age of 8-11. The field of child development, in this case, encompasses emotional, physical and intellectual growth. On one hand, the physical growth is easily observable and can be measured on a simple scale like a tape. Contrary, the mental, moral, social and emotional growths are not simply detectable and they reveal themselves in unpredictable and complicated ways. [...]

[...] Life-span development. New York, London: McGraw- Hill. Zembar, M. J., & Blume, L. B. (2009). Middle childhood development: A contextual approach. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Merrill/Pearson. [...]

[...] Also, Montessori's theory of how the middle-aged children construct their intelligence through thinking with imagination and logic. In this relation, one should realize that the children want to know about the world and the place around them (Howe, Goodman & Cicchetti, 2008). In conclusion, one should also consider the parents and the environment before and after trauma. These considerations should reveal whether the parents have difficulties in providing for the child especially after trauma and the familiarity with the surroundings of the home. [...]

[...] The other physical development is the growth of the motor skills. Motor skills refer to the movement skills for the larger body that include running and walking. Typically, boys grow the motor skills at a faster rate than the girls in this period. In this period, the children learn how to control and coordinate their gross motor skills and hence they can also throw, jump, skip and hop. Contrary, girls in this period develop their fine motor skills faster than the boys. [...]

[...] Consequently, treatment of depression in children can follow a cognitive therapy, family therapy or even medications (Zembar & Blume, 2009). The cognitive therapy is based on cognitive theories that assert that child's negative perceptions of self-are caused by distortions of self- due to their environment. The Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for depression in children targets cognition, behavioral and the physiology domains. The cognitive domain trains parents on how to handle the negative reasoning of their depressed children. This training may include grateful attitude towards the children as well as encouragement. [...]