Think about in what circumstances a cognitive perspective would be helpful in our work in health and social care. Think about the service users who might benefit from this approach and the sort of issues that might help them with.

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P4: Think about in what circumstances a cognitive perspective would be helpful in our work in health and social care. Think about the service users who might benefit from this approach and the sort of issues that might help them with.

The value of the cognitive approach is to enable children to understand the environment around them its also helpful in a situation whereby the development of a service user is an issue. Cognitive perspective helps service users such as children to explore with their hands and feet during early developments. However, cognitive perspective also assists children boost their knowledge and the understanding of self, others, and the physical world around them. In other words they develop the very spirit of play is that it encourages imagination and improves social skills. Through play a child learns about himself and the others around him which in turn teaches him how to deal with others in the wider world. Cognitive perspective is a significant part of early development. For example playing, playing helps children to learn the skills necessary to effectively take part in their world. It also offers children with natural opportunities to connect in real and meaningful activities that improve physical, language, social, and cognitive development. Play is essential to development as it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social and emotional well being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with their children.

One of the famous psychologists called Jean Piaget (1896-1980) explained his theory through four stages of cognitive development that every child progresses by. The first stage is called the Sensorimotor, which is inbuilt behaviour beginning straight after birth of sucking, crawling and watching. During this stage the child slowly adapts to the wider world around whilst interacting with their environment, building their knowledge, and ability of language.  The second stage is called the pre-operational at this point the child is capable of using words however they do not understand what they are saying using other words to describe their thoughts. By the age of five they will slowly develop the understanding of the logic behind and also get the meaning of the wrongful words. The Concrete operations stage arises at the age 7-11 at this point the child is able to think in a logical manner using their thoughts to solve problems. Children at this age endure collecting faucal information on what they are interested in. The final stage, Formal operations, is when children and adolescents develop their thinking through formal logic enabling them to use their imagination and understanding to solve problems by hypothesis and testing them out. This is when their future builds up.  

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