Module 6: Healthy growing years (8-18)
- Emerging from childhood to teenager to young adult- form changing and a shift in growing potentials.
- Appropriate advise on diet, exercise and study postures.
- Hormones, changing physiology and emotions: what to say & what not to do.
- Independence in the family: siblings and parents holding family & societal fulcrums.
- Emerging independence for “seeking” own health and health care, consent for treatment.
- 15 hours CPD per module.
Weekend Timetable
Saturday and Sunday
Start 9.30
Lunch 12.30-2
Finish 5.30
Patient Clinic
Saturday 4pm Demonstration with patient/s by presenter
Sunday 2.30-3.30 Participants practice with patient/s
References for further reading
Karen R, 1998, Becoming Attached, Oxford Uni Press, Oxford
Levine PA & Kline M, 2007, Trauma through a child’s eyes: infancy through adolescence, North Atlantic Books, CA
Moeckel E & Mitha N (Eds), 2008, Textbook of Pediatric Osteopathy, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, London
Pinkham JR et al, (Eds), 2005, Pediatric Dentistry: infancy through Adolescence, 4th Ed, Elsevier Saunders, Philadelphia, PA
Sergeoff N, 2007, Cranial osteopathy for Infants, Children and Adolescents: A practical handbook, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, Philadelphia
