Emotional Development
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- Created on: 27-01-23 10:21
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- Emotional Development
- Definitions
- Emotional Literacy
- The ability to recognise, understand, and appropriately express emotions
- Essential for forming positive social relationships
- Who might find emotional literacy hard to form?
- Those with learning difficulties
- People with speech difficulties
- Empathy
- The ability to identify with or understand another's situation or feelings
- Attachment
- A strong emotional connection between a child and caregiver
- Attachments are formed from our first stages of emotional and social development
- Emotional Literacy
- Infants are biologically pre-programmed to form attachments
- Emotional development needs to include how a person values themselves as well as other people
- Forms emotional literacy
- Forms the ability to empathise
- By forming strong attachments to someone this can increase self-esteem and self-image
- Life Stages
- Infancy
- Need to form attachments necessary for good relationships throughout life
- Early Childhood
- Start understanding self and others
- Begin to have an idea of self concept
- Start understanding self and others
- Adolescence
- Identity
- Sense of self continues to develop including a sense of own identity
- Identity
- Early and middle adulthood
- Intimacy
- Adult relationships - have to learn to cope with emotional attachment.
- Self esteem influenced by lifestyle
- Intimacy
- Later adulthood
- Making sense of your life
- Need secure sense of self to cope with physical changes associated with aging and death
- Making sense of your life
- Infancy
- Attachment
- Benefits
- The child will have a sense of belonging
- The child will feel
- Secured
- Loved
- Caregivers should ensure that child have:
- The physical, mental, and emotional encouragement to develop healthy
- Secure attachments in childhood can lead to happier and healthier attachments with others in the future
- Bowlby's theory of attachment
- Ainsworth's strange situation
- Benefits
- Reasons for poor attachment
- Disability
- Some babies born with disabilities can have difficulty forming attachments
- Emotional unavailability
- Drug or alcohol abuse
- Illness or struggling with their role
- Prematurity
- If in an incubator they cannot be picked up and held which can affect the attachment process
- Foster care/ adoption
- Inconsistency of care givers may affect attachments and their sense of identity
- Post-natal depression
- May affect the mothers ability to bond with her baby
- Separation
- Through bereavement or divorce
- Disability
- Definitions
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