Childhood Development Social-Emotional Development

Elements of Social-Emotional Development

▪ Acting: Interacting with teachers and peers in positive ways. Inhibiting negative impulses. Solving Problems with independence.

▪ Feeling: Identifying emotions in themselves and others. Managing strong emotions. Being empathetic and understanding others perspectives.

▪ Thinking: Focusing attention on a lesson or an activity. Screening distractions. Planning steps or strategies to complete a task or an activity.

Social-Emotional Development

▪ Child’s experience ▪ Expression▪ Management of emotions and the ability

to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others (Cohen and others 2005). ▪ Encompasses both Intra-and

interpersonal processes

Healthy Social-Emotional Development

▪ Infants and toddlers need positive ongoing relationships with familiar, nurturing adults. ▪ Attuned to social

and emotional stimulation.

Emotional Development▪ Ability to identify and understand one’s own feelings▪ Accurately read and comprehend emotional states in others▪ Manage strong emotions and their expression in a constructive manner▪ Develop empathy for others ▪ Establish and maintain relationships (National Scientific Council on the

Developing child 2004,2)

Newborns and development

Newborns appear to attend more to stimuli that resemble faces (Johnson and others, 1991). They also prefer their mothers voices to the voices of other women (DeCasper and Fifer, 1980).

Infants▪ Experience, Express,

and Perceive emotions before they fully understand them.

▪ Learning to recognize, label, manage, and communicate their emotions and attempt to connect them with:

▪ Family ▪ Peers▪ Teachers▪ Community

Infants and relationships ▪ Infants develop close

relationships with children they know over a period of time.

▪ Children in the family child care setting or neighborhood.

▪ Relationships with peers provide young children with the opportunity to develop strong social connections.

Infant/Toddler Years▪ Children begin to develop an

understanding of the responses, communication, emotional, expression, and actions of other people.

▪ This development includes infants understanding of what to expect from others, and how to engage in back-and-forth social interactions.

Young Children and Development

▪ Young children who exhibit healthy social, emotional, and behavioral adjustment are more likely to have good academic performance in elementary school (Cohen and others, 2007).

Why is Social-Emotional Development Important?▪ Child’s social emotional development is as

important as their cognitive and physical development.

▪ It is important to know that children are not born with social-emotional skills. It is the role of the parents, caregivers, and teachers of children to teach and foster these abilities (Moore, 1992)

Is this relevant to me personally?

▪ Absolutely! I have always love kids of all ages, I raised my little brother and sister, started babysitting at age eleven and had my own home daycare for a year and a half before I here.

▪ Learning social-emotional development helped with what to teach the children I was watching as well as what to expect from them at a certain age.

Could This Content be of Use in My Professional Life?

▪ Yes, my career choice is to become a teacher. Whether it is in elementary or high school, social-emotional development will help me teach and connect with students, as well as know the reason why one student may act one way and another student another way.

Red Flags for Social-Emotional Development (2 Years)You should talk to your doctor or another health professional if these occur.

▪ Does not imitate other people

▪ Constantly moves from one activity to another

▪ Does not show any interest in other children

▪ Too passive, does not want to try new things

▪ Has extreme difficulty waiting for items he wants

Red Flags for Social-Emotional Development (3 Years)

You should talk to your doctor or another health professional if these occur.

▪ Is not interested in pretend play

▪ Extreme difficulty separating from you

▪ Not responding to simple interactions with other children

▪ Showing abnormal aggression

▪ Shows extreme fear that interferes with daily activities

References▪ http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/re/itf09socemodev.asp

▪ http://ecdc.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/BulletinSocialEmotionalDevelopment2.pdf

▪ http://www.tkcalifornia.org/teaching-tools/social-emotional/