Fig. 2

Developmental characteristics throughout childhood and adolescence

*Legend Fig. 2. Definitions on some of the defined domains [62]: (1) psychological/emotional aspects: the experiences, behaviors, traits, attitudes and emotions that characterize that development group; (2) general cognitive aspects: skills involved in performing the tasks associated with perception, learning, memory, understanding, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intuition and language; (3) social aspects: the gradual acquisition of certain skills (e.g., language, interpersonal skills) and behavior that enable to interact with others and to function as a member of society; (4) coping strategy: an action, a serious of actions, or a thought process used in meeting a stressful or unpleasant situation or in modifying one’s reaction to such a situation; (5) and (6) conceptualization of illness and death: the process by which a person abstracts a common idea from one or more particular examples and learns the defining features or combination of features that are characteristic of the concepts ‘illness’ and ‘death’; (7) communication: the transmission of information, which may be by verbal or nonverbal means