Child development theories focus on different aspects of development of a child including emotional, social and cognitive growth.
Not exact matches
Her academic training and research has crossed areas of family - community interaction, developmental
theory, and educational psychology, all with a
focus on how to share information in a manner that supports
children's and families»
development.
Solis» research
focuses on
children's cognitive
development, specifically how young
children play with each other and with objects to understand and build
theories about the world around them, and how this is shaped by their cultural context.
School
Development Program, Yale University - A
Focus on
Child Development Theory - Strong Parent Program - School Planning and Management Team
As a result, early
child development research followed untested psychoanalytic
theory in
focusing exclusively on mothers and infants, presuming fathers to be quite peripheral and unnecessary to
children's
development and psychological adjustment.
Focusing on how to integrate attachment
theory and developmental psychology in practice with adopted or fostered
children, she emphasises the need for understanding of early trauma and its effect on
child development.
Erikson's (Erikson, 1965, 1968)
theory on the stages of psychosocial
development in
children, adolescents, and adults and Herbert's flow chart (Herbert, 1987)
focus on the vicissitudes of identity and the
development of unhealthy mental and social problems.
In defense of ethological attachment
theory, one must say that it has generated an incredible body of research
focused on understanding the social, emotional, and interpersonal
development of
children.
Lisa's session will
focus on «The Neurobiology of Play» and attendees will learn cutting - edge research on neural anatomy, mindfulness, attachment
theory and brain
development as the research is translated into practical ways of working with
children and parents.
Although her
focus on the problems caused by lack of sufficient nurturing, and her belief that even young
children are strongly influenced by the «death instinct,» led her to develop useful tools for treating seriously troubled
children, her
theory does not provide a complete, or hopeful, view of normal human psychological
development.
1995 — Building Relationships: Families and Professionals as Partners 1996 — A Promising Future 1997 — Fostering the Well Being of Families 1998 — Trauma: A Multi-Dimensional View 1999 — Coming Together for
Children and Families: Developing Comprehensive Systems of Care 2000 — The Neurobiology of
Child Development: Bridging the Gap Between
Theory Research and Practice 2001 — Processing Trauma and Terrorism 2002 — The Road Less Traveled: Adoptive Families in the New Millennium 2003 — A Better Beginning: Parents with Mental Illness and their Young
Children 2004 — Approaches That Work: Multi-Stressed Families and their Young
Children 2005 — The Screening and Assessing of the Social Emotional Concerns 2006 — Supporting Young
Children through Separation and Loss 2007 — Social Emotional
Development: Promising Practices, Research and Policy 2008 — Attachment: Connecting for Life 2009 — Evidenced - based Practices for Working with Young
Children and Families 2010 - Eat Sleep and Be Merry: Regulation Concerns in Young
Children 2011 - Climbing the Ladder Toward Competency in Young
Children's Mental Health 2012 -
Focusing on Fatherhood 2013 - Trauma in Early Childhood: Assessment, Intervention and Supporting Families
In sum, attachment
theory is a
theory of both normal and abnormal
development that
focuses on the impact of parent -
child attachment relationships on healthy
development and psychopathology, including juvenile delinquency (Sroufe et al. 1999).