Infant Development

Choose a topic from the list below (or choose a topic of your own) to use as the foundation for this assignment. Use the Capella library and Internet to locate academic and professional articles on the topic. Use a minimum of three (at least one academic and one professional) recent (within the last 5 years) articles as resources for this assignment.

Topics:

• The effect of maternal stress on prenatal development.
• Prenatal exposure to drugs and the effects on brain development.
• Environmental influences on prenatal development. Please select only one:
  • Diseases.
  • Outside environmental hazards.
  • Medications (legal and illegal).
  • Alcohol and tobacco.
• The effect of maternal post-partum depression on newborn infant development.
• The effects of premature birth on the developing infant.

Requirements

For this assignment:

• Describe the problem as it exists today in the United States. Be sure to include any statistics on frequency, geographic distribution, cultural distribution, and so on.
• Explain how the problem affects the developing infant.
• Explain how the research findings have influenced both social thinking and social policies with regard to the problem.
  • Describe the research methods used to reach those findings.
• Offer one intervention you would recommend if a client came to you with the selected problem.
• Requirements.

• Length: 3–4 typed, double-spaced pages not including