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Emotional Development

Emotional Development. Birth to One Year. Emotional Development. What is it? The process of learning to recognize and express one’s feelings and to establish one’s identity as a unique person. Healthy Emotional Development. Self-Confident Can handle stress Shows empathy .

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Emotional Development

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  1. Emotional Development Birth to One Year

  2. Emotional Development • What is it? • The process of learning to recognize and express one’s feelings and to establish one’s identity as a unique person

  3. Healthy Emotional Development • Self-Confident • Can handle stress • Shows empathy

  4. Social Development • What is it? • The process of learning to interact with others and to express oneself to others.

  5. Healthy Social Development • Shows tolerance for others • Can communicate well with others • Listens to different point of views before acting

  6. Influences that shape Development • The bond formed between the parent and child • The atmosphere of the home • Temperament of the child

  7. Attachment • What is it? • The bond between a parent/ caregiver and the child • Essential to form- Erik Erikson Trust vs Mistrust • Basis of developing trust-needed for healthy social/emotional development.

  8. Study on Attachment • Harry Harlow made monkey-shaped forms out of chicken wire AND soft cloth • Used substitute mothers to raise the monkeys • He found that the baby monkeys clung to the “mothers” made of soft cloth • Monkeys needed to feel physical closeness as well as receive a feeding • When they were older they did not know how to relate to other monkeys because they did not develop normal social relationships due to the lack of interaction with the real mothers

  9. Studies done on Human • Children in orphanage had little personal care from adults. • Physical and emotional development of the children were slower than normal • Baylor University – studied abused and neglected children. They failed to receive love, touch, and opportunities for learning and had brains 20 to 30% smaller than average

  10. Without attachment=Failure to Thrive • What is it? • A condition in which they baby does not grow and develop properly • Can happen if: • Receive little attention • Little Encouragement • Lack of love and attention

  11. TEMPERAMENT Style of reacting to the world and relating to others

  12. INTENSITY • High- deep & powerful responses; cry hearty • Intense person very loud

  13. PERSISTENCE • Determined in action • Less persistence accepts “no” for an answer • High- set goals don’t give up

  14. SENSITIVITY • Strong reactions to feelings • Fussy eater, complain about clothes bothering you-sights, sounds, or smells • Less sensitive accept what comes goes with the flow

  15. PERCEPTIVENESS • High- aware of surrounding, distracted easily, several directions may lose track • Low less attention to detail, can follow may steps at once

  16. ADAPTABILITY • How well do you adjust to changes?? • Low- resist change • High- like surprises, change

  17. REGULARITY • High- follow strong patterns, routines, schedules • Low- different from day to day

  18. ENERGY • High- physically active • Low- stay one spot/place/activity

  19. FIRST REACTION • How you face new situations? • Dive right in tackle things head on • High-try new activities, new foods • Low- hold back, watch first

  20. MOOD • Cheerful or Cranky • Optimistic vs Pestimistic

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