Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course
Sixth Edition
Learning Objectives
- Compare one’s own emotional and cognitive reactions to three case studies.
- Summarize some themes in the sociocultural context of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.
- Recognize important mechanisms of reproductive genetics.
- Analyze the ways that humans try to get control over conception and pregnancy.
- Summarize the major stages of fetal development.
- Describe the special challenges faced by premature and low-birth-weight newborns and newborns with congenital anomalies.
- Give examples of different circumstances under which people become parents.
- Give examples of risk factors and protective factors in conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.
- Apply knowledge of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth to recommend guidelines for social work engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.