Use your Broderick and Blewitt textbook, The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, to complete the following:

Studies

Readings

Use your Broderick and Blewitt textbook, The Life Span: Human Development for Helping Professionals, to complete the following:

Read Chapter 2, “Epigenesis and the Brain: The Fundamentals of Behavioral Development,” pages 40–77. This chapter is about genetics with respect to the early brain development. The chapter also introduces stress and adaptation responses, and atypical development linked to heredity.

Use the Capella library to complete the following:

Read Bornstein, Suwalsky, and Breakstone’s 2012 article, “Emotional Relationships Between Mothers and Infants: Knowns, Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns,” from Development and Psychopathology, volume 24, issue 1, pages 113–23.

Read Knafo and Jaffee’s 2013 article, “Gene-Environment Correlation in Developmental Psychopathology,” from Development and Psychopathology, volume 25, issue 1, pages 1–6.

Read Lefmann and Combs-Orme’s 2013 article, “Early Brain Development for Social Work Practice: Integrating Neuroscience With Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development,” from the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, volume 23, issue 5, pages 640–647.

Read Kurth, Spichiger, Stutz, Biedermann, Hösli, and Kennedy’s 2010 article, “Crying Babies, Tired Mothers – Challenges of the Postnatal Hospital Stay: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study,” from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, volume 10, issue 21.

Use the Internet to complete the following:

Read “Fetal Development: The First Trimester,” from the Mayo Clinic’s Web site.

Multimedia

Learn more about prenatal development in the following presentations:

Click The Marvel of Prenatal Human Development.

Click Turning Points: An Overview of Prenatal Human Development.

Academic Guides

Read the Learner Expectations for this course for information important to your success.

Read the one-page MEAL Plan. This guide for academic writing will be the basis of your first assignment.

Read pages 3–12 of the Professional Communications and Writing Guide. You are expected to adhere to these guidelines when writing discussion posts and responses and papers, and when using citations and references. This information will also be important for your first assignment. It is suggested, but not required, that you download this guide and review the remainder of it for guidance in other written assignments.

Read the one-page Writing in the Third Person resource. This information will also be important for your first assignment.

Browse through Capella’s Online Writing Center. There are many resources that can help you with the writing process and using APA guidelines.

Browse through the APA Style and Format site. You are expected to adhere to APA style in all coursework in your program, unless specific exceptions are made.

Optional Audiovisual Media

You are encouraged, but not required, to complete the following. Please note that transcription and closed captioning are provided at the link for each of these videos:

View Alison Gopnik’s 20-minute TED Talks video, What Do Babies Think?

View Annie Murphy Paul’s 17-minute TED Talks video, What We Learn Before We’re Born.

View James Watson’s 20-minute TED Talks video, How We Discovered DNA.

View Dean Ornish’s 3-minute TED Talks video, Your Genes Are Not Your Fate.

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Writing Self-Analysis

If you have not already done so, complete your readings under Academic Guides in the studies for this unit.

For this assignment, complete a self-evaluation of your professional writing skills, including the following:

Review the content, structure, and organization of the initial post you submitted in your first discussion (from the previous unit), and the responses you received from your fellow learners.

Evaluate your post, using the Writing Self-Evaluation Rubric, linked in the Resources.

In the rubric, review the different levels of achievement that are possible for each criterion. Place an “X” in the level of achievement you believe your discussion post has attained.

The very last column on the right provides space for you to leave notes about the criterion. Indicate the reason for your assessment of each criterion in the last column.

Once you have completed the rubric, be sure to save a copy of it to your computer for later comparison.

Submit the rubric along with a copy of the discussion post you assessed as Word document attachments in the assignment area.