Expectant Parent Newsletter
Imagine that you work for a family health organization. You have been asked to create a newsletter to hand out to expecting parents. The newsletter should consist of 500-750 words that will inform parents of issues related to prenatal development and infancy. In the newsletter, include the following:
1. List critical periods of prenatal development.
2. List teratogens that could impact prenatal development.
3. List and describe ways to have a healthy pregnancy and to reduce prenatal risks.
4. Describe infant risks and how to minimize those risks (e.g., SIDS, injury).
5. Address attachment issues during infancy.
6. Provide tips for fostering healthy development in the three areas of infant development.
Use two to four scholarly resources to support your information.
Critical periods of prenatal development are clear, concise, and makes relevant connections to current research.
Teratogens that could impact prenatal development is clear, concise, and makes relevant connections to current research.
List and describe ways to have a health pregnancy, including reduced prenatal risks are clear, concise, and makes relevant connections to current research.
Description of infant risks and how to minimize those risks are clear, concise, and makes relevant connections to current research.
Attachment issues during infancy are clear, concise, and makes relevant connections to current research.
Provide tips for fostering healthy development in the three areas of infant development are clear, concise, and makes relevant connections to current research.
Research is supportive of the rationale presented. Sources are distinctive. Addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment criteria.
Synthesis is unique. Synthesis shows careful planning and attention to how disparate elements fit together. The combination of elements is verified.
The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.
Read Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of Experiencing the Lifespan.
URL:
https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/bedford-freeman-and-worth/2018/experiencing-the-lifespan_5e.php
Explore the child development page of the CDC website.
URL:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/infants.htm
Study “Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory – Summary Diagram,” located on the Businessballs.com website.
URL:
http://www.businessballs.com/erik_erikson_psychosocial_theory.htm#erikson_psychosocial_theory_summary
Study “Erik Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development.”
URL:
http://allpsych.com/psychology101/social_development.html
Explore the Zero to Three website.
URL:
http://www.zerotothree.org/
Explore the NYU Child Study Center website.
URL:
http://aboutourkids.org/
Read “Infant and Toddler Health” on the Mayo Clinic website.
URL:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-and-toddler-health/MY00362
Read about breastfeeding on the World Health Organization’s website.
URL:
http://www.who.int/topics/breastfeeding/en/
Read “Effect of Breastfeeding Promotion Interventions on Breastfeeding Rates, With Special Focus on Developing Countries,” by Imdad, Yakoob, & Bhutta, from BMC Public Health (2011).
URL:
https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=60440504&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Read “Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Its Effects on Neurodevelopment: What Is Known and What Remains Uncertain,” by Gray, Mukherjee, & Rutter, from Addiction (2009)
URL:
http://search.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmedm&AN=19215606&site=eds-live&scope=site
Read “Perception of Teratogenic Risk of Common Medicines,” by Sanz, Gomez-Lopez, & Martinez-Quintas, from European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology (2001).