Objectives

When you have completed this unit you should be able to:

• List the rights of children.
• Understand the role of poverty in ill health.
• Describe the importance of the social environment.
• Recognise and manage child abuse.
• Understand the problem of street children.
• Discuss the problems of orphans.
• Describe normal development.
• Identify neurodevelopmental disability.
• Manage behaviour and emotional problems.