Guiding children's social development : theory to practice /

Bibliografische gegevens
Andere auteurs: Kostelnik, Marjorie J., Whiren, Alice Phipps, Soderman, Anne K., Gregory, Kara
Formaat: Boek
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Clifton Park, NY : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2006.
Editie:Fifth edition.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • Making a difference in children's lives
  • Children in the social world
  • Children's social knowledge and skills
  • Social competence
  • Development and social competence
  • Learning and social competence
  • Contextual perspectives and social competence
  • Contextual thinking concerning children
  • Your role in fostering children's social competence
  • Developmentally appropriate practices and social competence
  • Initiating social relationships in infancy
  • Infant characteristics as factors in social relationships
  • Individuation and socialization
  • emergence of communicative competence
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Building positive relationships through nonverbal communication
  • Functions of nonverbal communication
  • Channels of nonverbal communication
  • Adult abuses of nonverbal behavior
  • Communicating about the relationship
  • The impact of mixed messages
  • Children's acquisition of nonverbal communication skills
  • Guiding children with adult nonverbal behavior
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Promoting children's self-awareness and self-esteem through verbal cmmunication
  • The child's evolving sense of self
  • How adult practices relate to self-esteem
  • the verbal environment
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Responding to children's emotions
  • Children's emotional development
  • Problems children encounter when dealing with emotions
  • Appropriate ways of responding to children's emotions
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Supporting children in stressful situations
  • The nature of stress
  • Sources of children's stress
  • Natural disasters, war, terrorism, and violence
  • Children's reactions to stress
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Enhancing children's play
  • The nature of play
  • Types of play
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Supporting children's friendships
  • Not all relationships are created equal
  • What happens when children cannot find a friend?
  • Children's changing ideas about friendship
  • The emergence of friendship
  • The friendship framework
  • Likeness
  • Difficulty with friendships
  • The friendship process
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Influencing children's social development by structuring the physical environment
  • Fundamentals of structuring
  • Structuring space and materials
  • Structuring time
  • Coaching children in decision making, planning, implementing and evaluating
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Fostering self-discipline in children : expressing appropriate expectations for their behavior
  • What is self-discipline?
  • Developmental processes that influence self-discipline
  • How experience influences self-discipline
  • How adult behavior affects children's behavior
  • Stating behavioral expectations
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Fostering self-discipline in children : implementing consequences
  • Using consequences to promote social competence
  • Behavior problems and their solutions
  • Consequences
  • Combining the warning and follow-through with the personal message
  • Time-out : the ultimate consequence
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Handling children's aggressive behavior
  • What aggression is
  • Why children are aggressive
  • The emergence of aggression
  • Ineffective strategies adults try to reduce children's aggressive behavior
  • Effective strategies adults use to reduce children's aggressive behavior
  • A model for conflict mediation
  • When aggression becomes hostile
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Promoting prosocial behavior
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Supporting children's development : sexuality, ethnicity, and special needs
  • Children's psychosexual development
  • Ethnic identity, preferences, and attitudes in children
  • Inclusion of children with special needs
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments
  • Making judgments
  • Variables that affect judgment
  • Judgments about ethical behavior
  • Judgments about children's extreme behavior
  • Judgments regarding child abuse and neglect
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Key terms
  • Discussion questions
  • Field assignments.