Process of Development



Process of Development

Introduction

All people living in this world have inherited genes and are influenced by some environmental factors and continuously burgeoning. Development is part of life. Development can be defined as the pattern of change that begins at conception and continues throughout the human life. This development process gets influenced by scores of factors. The process of development is mainly influenced by different things and different people (Guest, 2010). The parents and peers of the individual plat a very important part in the process of development of an individual. Many believe that parents are more important and play a more significant part in the development process as compared to the peers. However, some believe that peers play a major part in the development a lot more the parents. This paper discusses whether the individual's parents or peers play a more important role in the process of development.

Discussion

Urie Bronfenbrenner's developmental model identifies contexts of care for the young person including the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. The microsystem is comprised of family, school, peer, and neighborhood structures directly impacting the youth. The mesosystem describes relationships between structures in the microsystem such as consistency and level of involvement within family and school and within family and peer circles (Bronfenbrenner & Evans, 2000).

The literature from psychology and physiology is useful regarding the developmental pathways and brain development of children and youths in terms of their mental capacity to form judgments and understand the nature and circumstances of the events that surround their criminal conduct. As discussed by George McKenna and Stanley Feingold in the book “Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Political Issues”, the family environment (mainly the role of parents) is often considered one of the most influential antecedents to risky behavior—or on the contrary, one of the most important protective factors from engaging in high-risk activities. More important than family structure, however, is the quality of the relationship between the youth and his or her parent(s), the management style of the parent(s), and the parents' own involvement in high-risk, dangerous, or illegal behavior.

Leading self, like all leadership, is a developmental process that spans the life cycle beginning in childhood and continuing through seniorhood. One on hand, young adults are instructed to be mature and behave as a grownup would. But, on the other hand, people under the age of 18 have few rights, and most major decisions in their lives are dictated by their parents, so no matter how old or mature the youths appear outwardly, they are still treated as children. These two factors induce uncertainty and fear about the future and further compromise youths' abilities to cope with stress, peer pressure, and adolescent life, and put them further at risk of not maturing into responsible adults.

Since it is not always equally necessary to focus more narrowly on the decision-making process to understand why an individual acts the way it does in the society, it is important to identify under which conditions leadership and the decision-making process are ...