THE PHYSICALLY PRECOCIOUS OR DELAYED CHILD
“Adolescence,” observed Alexander and Strang (1953, p. 756), “is as
if the biological functions of mature sexuality were foisted upon an
organism which emotionally is not fully prepared for it.
…
A full-grown
body is entrusted to an inexperienced mind.”
Chapter 7
Developmental Asynchrony and De´calage
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Figure 7.2
Profiles representing developmental strengths and weaknesses for (a) a glob-
ally precocious and (b) a globally delayed child.
Physical maturation from conception through later adulthood fol-
lows a course determined by DNA and altered—sometimes subtly and
other times quite radically—by a variety of environmental factors, in-
cluding stress,
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nutrition, medication, and toxic exposure. All other
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