Lifespan Perspective Essay
Lifespan perspective views development as lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a process that involved growth, maintence and, regulation of loss. Development is constructed through biological, sociocultural and individual factors working together. Within this concept, development is contextual. This means that development occurs within a context. A context refers to schools, peer groups, churches cities and many more. But within these setting there are influences such as historical, economic, social and cultural factors. Throughout life people change. As a result of these changes there are three different influences. These influences are known as normative age-related, normative history
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Examples of it could be if someone witnessed an abduction, had a premature baby or even death of a loved one. Out of the three influences nonnormative life events impacted me the most. One was the death of my grandfather. His death directed me in a better direction. He is the reason I work so hard to this day in every aspect. He inspired me to lose weight. I went from being obese to fit. His death almost gave me back my life. Looking back, if that never happened I have no idea what path I would be on. I think of that event as a “domino effect” after that, everything changed. New chapters begun and a lot of things were different. This is why it affected me so much. Another nonnormative life event was an unexpected career opportunity. This happened while I was at my old job. My boss asked me to be his nanny. It was out of the blue and I hesitantly said yes. I had no idea of what I was doing or what the job entailed. I learned within four months of the job that kids are my passion. I then applied for another job, Foss Swim School. I started teaching young children how to swim. Again I had no idea of what I was doing. I still nanny and work at Foss. If I never had become a nanny I would still probably be in school studying business. After six months into my nanny job I changed my major to Pre-DPT in hopes of becoming a pediatric physical therapist. Again, taking that job changed everything
Examples of it could be if someone witnessed an abduction, had a premature baby or even death of a loved one. Out of the three influences nonnormative life events impacted me the most. One was the death of my grandfather. His death directed me in a better direction. He is the reason I work so hard to this day in every aspect. He inspired me to lose weight. I went from being obese to fit. His death almost gave me back my life. Looking back, if that never happened I have no idea what path I would be on. I think of that event as a “domino effect” after that, everything changed. New chapters begun and a lot of things were different. This is why it affected me so much. Another nonnormative life event was an unexpected career opportunity. This happened while I was at my old job. My boss asked me to be his nanny. It was out of the blue and I hesitantly said yes. I had no idea of what I was doing or what the job entailed. I learned within four months of the job that kids are my passion. I then applied for another job, Foss Swim School. I started teaching young children how to swim. Again I had no idea of what I was doing. I still nanny and work at Foss. If I never had become a nanny I would still probably be in school studying business. After six months into my nanny job I changed my major to Pre-DPT in hopes of becoming a pediatric physical therapist. Again, taking that job changed everything