A Model for Healthy Human Development: The Developmental Asset Framework

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Art Sesma
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Developmental Asset

Roles and Importance of Ethics in the Counseling Profession

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Sussan Olufunmilola Adeusi
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
British Association ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Counseling Profession ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
Professional Body ◽  
Ethics Counselling

Absence of rules, guidelines, or instruction in any setting will lead to chaos. Ethics is a written law, and in this chapter, the focus is on the role and importance of ethics in counselling. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the morality of human actions. Every professional body is governed by ethics and counselling profession is not exclusive. Counselling Association of Nigeria (CASSON) does not have already established ethical codes due to several challenges but the ethical codes of American Counselling Association (ACA) and British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) have been very helpful. These major associations (ACA and BACP) are guided by similar ethical principles and code of ethics. Without ethics, counselling will achieve nothing or very little of her goals. Hence, the roles and importance of ethics in counselling is crucial; it sets order and guarantees a total and healthy human development.

Maslow’s Unacknowledged Contributions to Developmental Psychology

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 934-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Bland ◽  
Eugene M. DeRobertis
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
One Step ◽  
Psychological Integration

Few readily identify Maslow as a developmental psychologist. On the other hand, Maslow’s call for holistic/systemic, phenomenological, and dynamic/relational developmental perspectives in psychology (all being alternatives to the limitations of the dominant natural science paradigm) anticipated what emerged both as and in the subdiscipline of developmental psychology. In this article, we propose that Maslow’s dynamic systems approach to healthy human development served as a forerunner for classic and contemporary theory and research on parallel constructs in developmental psychology that provide empirical support for his ideas—particularly those affiliated with characteristics of psychological health (i.e., self-actualization) and the conditions that promote or inhibit it. We also explore Maslow’s adaptation of Goldstein’s concept of self-actualization, in which he simultaneously: (a) explicated a theory of safety versus growth that accounts for the two-steps-forward-one-step-back contiguous dynamic that realistically characterizes the ongoing processes of being-in-becoming and psychological integration in human development/maturity and (b) emphasized being-in-the-world-with-others with the intent of facilitating the development of an ideal society by promoting protective factors that illustrate Maslow’s safety, belonging, and esteem needs. Finally, we dialogue with the extant literature to clarify common misgivings about Maslow’s ideas.

scholarly journals Network Dynamics in Elemental Assimilation and Metabolism

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1633
Author(s):  
Austen Curtin ◽  
Christine Austin ◽  
Alessandro Giuliani ◽  
Manuel Ruiz Marín ◽  
Francheska Merced-Nieves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Lead Exposure ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Quantification Analysis ◽  
High Lead

Metabolism and physiology frequently follow non-linear rhythmic patterns which are reflected in concepts of homeostasis and circadian rhythms, yet few biomarkers are studied as dynamical systems. For instance, healthy human development depends on the assimilation and metabolism of essential elements, often accompanied by exposures to non-essential elements which may be toxic. In this study, we applied laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to reconstruct longitudinal exposure profiles of essential and non-essential elements throughout prenatal and early post-natal development. We applied cross-recurrence quantification analysis (CRQA) to characterize dynamics involved in elemental integration, and to construct a graph-theory based analysis of elemental metabolism. Our findings show how exposure to lead, a well-characterized toxicant, perturbs the metabolism of essential elements. In particular, our findings indicate that high levels of lead exposure dysregulate global aspects of metabolic network connectivity. For example, the magnitude of each element’s degree was increased in children exposed to high lead levels. Similarly, high lead exposure yielded discrete effects on specific essential elements, particularly zinc and magnesium, which showed reduced network metrics compared to other elements. In sum, this approach presents a new, systems-based perspective on the dynamics involved in elemental metabolism during critical periods of human development.

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