This authoritative, engaging work examines the key role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from the earliest infant-caregiver transactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Sections cover foundational developmental science, the self and relationships, social behaviors, contexts for social development, and risk and resilience. Leading experts thoroughly review their respective areas and highlight the most compelling current issues, methods, and research directions. Pedagogical Features: *Structured to follow the sequence of a typical social development course. *Chapters are brief and can be assigned along with primary source readings. *Includes end-of-chapter suggested reading lists. *Coverage is broader and higher-level than other social development texts. *Designed with the needs of students in mind, in terms of writing style, size, and price.
"This authoritative, engaging work examines the key role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from the earliest infant-caregiver transactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships.
Social development is examined from the dual perspectives of social and developmental psychology in this volume, which offers a multi-level review of the common boundaries between the two subdisciplines.
Wood and Middleton ( 1975 ) investigated the teaching strategies employed by mothers using the same task as Wood et al . ( 1976 ) , and found that some mothers did indeed scaffold their children's performance , concentrating on the ...
How Teens Construct Their Worlds Judith G. Smetana ... In a paper on the moral and religious training of children, Hall stated: “Before this age [12 to 16] the child lives in the present, is normally selfish, deficient in sympathy, ...
Theories and Skills for Developmental Social Work James Midgley, Amy Conley. Midgley, J. (1981). ... Ideological Roots of Social Development Strategies, Social Development Issues, 15(1): 1–13. Midgley, J. (1995) Social Development: The ...
Ideally speaking the term social development should be the wider term including economic, political and cultural development. However, for a variety of reasons, 'development' has been used in a wider sense, particularly by the ...
Retrieved from https://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/04/01/banking-on-womenextending- womens- access- to- financial- services Khinduka, S. K. (1987). Development and peace: The complex nexus. Social Development Issues, 10(3), 19–30.
Research in social development began morethanacenturyago.Its roots are much older, springing from enduring philosophical traditions, as well as from theory and research in other sciences such as biology and pedagogical studies (e.g., ...
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development, Second Edition presents an authoritative and up-to-date overview of research and theory concerning a child's social development from pre-school age to the onset of adolescence.
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies.