External Factors Influencing Their Development

Children and young people often experience many things which have a direct impact on their development; things such as their family environment and structure, personality, hospital visits, childcare arrangements, and culture.

Describe with examples the kinds of influences that affect children and young people’s development, including:

The area a child grows up in has an effect, for example if a child is brought up on a council estate in poor housing they are more likely to have health problems. If parents are not working or have low income jobs they are likely to buy cheaper food and usually this means lower quality which can lead to health problems. Children and their families may have lower expectations. They might settle for the life that id mapped out. If a child lives in high rise flats or appartments they have less oppportunities to play. In poor quality housing there may not be a garden or safe playing area. This is reducing the childs opportunities to develop their physical gross motor skills. This of course is not always the case

2.1 Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors

If a practitioner see that the child is struggling with certain things, there could be an influence on other areas of development, because as we know each area of development are connected, and practitioner can use special screening programmes what can help the to pick up any areas of difficulty that child maybe suffering.

There are many examples that show how different aspects of development can impact one another. In majority of cases, one aspect will lead to another as a natural result, so for example, if a child has a speaks foreign language as his/her first and family just came to UK to live, this may lead to having language barrier, he/she may become shy, not very communicative, isolated, which affects emotional and intellectual development, further, he/she may have difficulty making friends, which can weaken his/her self esteem, affecting social and behavioral development.

Children and young people are influenced by physical factors, environmental factors, social and emotional factors plus economical factors.

In the story, the id, or the instinctual part of the personality, is represented by Jack. The id often comes into conflict with the superego, stated here: “Severe conflicts

The external factors influencing a child’s development include their immediate environment, i.e. their family and their circumstances at home, their socioeconomic background and the education they receive from institutions or their family.

Freaud outlined the topics of which he believed that three elements known as “id, ego, and super ego”(33) develop during childhood. In his words “The ID is the screaming infint demanding immediate pleasure”(33) and he identified Ego as something that develops to deal with the reality that immediate gratification is not always possible, which this happens as the infinite learns she is separate from the world and and it is impossible for her to control her surrounding. It is also mentioned that “Superego develops aound age 6 and is the demanding conscience that dictates what “should” and “should not” be done.

There are different things that can affect a child’s development in their background these are just a few of them: -

There are many social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on the lives of the children and young people that we may work with.

In the movie, Regarding Henry, a corporate lawyer named Henry Turner undergoes trauma that will profoundly change not only his life but his outlook on society as well. As a corporate lawyer his superego seemed to be abundant in his everyday language. His words were full of pride, his actions spoke of his undying competitive nature and his family was silent to the fact. Each part of Henry's personality, the id and superego, was brought about by different events that occurred in the lawyers life. For example his superego was shaped by his father's constant pressing on little Henry to be the best. After his superego took shape this took an effect on the way his growing Id responded. Pleasure came in the form of winning, soon Henry's work life and home life was consumed with pleasing himself with the approval of others. Therefore as the movie plays out, the viewer is able to see that Henry's natural state is his id.

The superego acts to perfect and civilize our behavior. It works to suppress all unacceptable urges of the id and struggles to make the ego act upon idealistic standards rather that upon realistic principles. The superego is present in the conscious, preconscious and unconscious. The ego is the component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality which was lacking in Lester,

The ego is the part of the mind that serves as a bridge between the id and superego (Seligman & Reichenberg, 2014). It develops as the child grows and separates from its mother (Bateman & Holmes, 2001). It is moreover evident that Kutlwano’s ego started developing when he went to school, being away from his mother.