Chapter 6 Flashcards
Emotions
Joy 6-10 weeks •Anger 3-4 months •Sadness 3-4 months •Fear 5-7 months •Disgust within first 8 months •Within first 8 months “basic emotions” emerge can can be vocalized and seen as facial expressions
Self-regulation
Control negative emotions and integrate emotions adaptively
•Appears last 6 months of first year in healthy babies
•Manage stress
•Soothe themselves
•Cope with frustration
•Affected by temperament
•Goodness of fit
Attachment
Affectional bond that one individual forms for another and endures
•Expressed in behaviors
Early attachments lead to purposeful communication and positive sense of self
•Infants are affected by mothers moods and emotions
Strange situation- Mary ainsworth 1983
Strange Situation- Mary Ainsworth 1983
•Securely attached infants
•Insecure/avoidant: avoid mother on return
•Insecure/resistant: go to mother briefly then reject her
•Disorganized/disoriented
Views of development
Psychosocial view- Erikson’s trust vs mistrust
- Behavioral view- reward appropriate behaviors and extinguish negative ones
- Psychoanalytic view-conflicts with meeting needs to suck, expel urine and feces, feeding schedule and mother relationship is prototype to future
- Cognitive view-how children reason and solve problems, Paigeten
- Ecological view-family, school community, government contribute to social and emotional development
Psychosocial view
Psychosocial view- Erikson’s trust vs mistrust
Behavioral view
Behavioral view- reward appropriate behaviors and extinguish negative ones
Psychoanalytic view
•Psychoanalytic view-conflicts with meeting needs to suck, expel urine and feces, feeding schedule and mother relationship is prototype to future
Cognitive view
•Cognitive view-how children reason and solve problems, Paigeten
Ecological view
•Ecological view-family, school community, government contribute to social and emotional development
Greenspan
Stanley Greenspan: child psychiatrist in Bethesda, MD
•Worked at NIMH for 19 years
•Researcher on the prevention and treatment of emotional and developmental disorders in infants and children
•Written many books for parents with children with or without special needs
Developed the Test of Sensory Functions in Infants (TSFI) with DeGangi
•Experiences and interactions based on emotions wire the brain and cause neuronal connections
•Early interaction affects and drives cognition and intelligence later in life
•The ability to think abstractly is based on LIVED experience based on emotions
Emotional Milestones: Greenspan
- Self Regulation and Interest in the World (0-3 months)
- being calm/achieving homeostasis
- taking in sensory input in an organized manner
- is interested in environment
- sleeps regularly
- enjoys touch and some movement
- Intimacy/Falling in Love (2 to 7 months)
- responds to your overtures, sometimes with obvious pleasure, sometimes with curiosity and interest
- becomes displeased when you are unresponsive during play for more than 30 seconds
- joyful interest in human world, cooing, smiling and hugging
3.Developing Intentional Communication (3 to 10 months)
The child responds to: - your gestures with gestures in return - your emotional expressions with emotional response The child initiates: - interactions and comforting - exploration and assertiveness
- The Emergence of an Organized Sense of Self/Complex Problem Solving (9-18 months)
- complex behavior
- plays in a focused organized manner
- integrate behavior with emotions to meet
needs
- recovers from anger quickly
5.Emotional Ideas (18 to 36 months)
- engages in pretend play with others and
alone
- constructs designs in space
- uses gestures or words to convey feelings
or needs
- use ideas to express emotions
- Emotional Thinking (30 to 48 months)
- Building bridges between ideas
- know difference between fantasy and reality
- follows rules
- understands consequences of behavior, thought and feelings
- interacts in a socially accepted way
- Building bridges between ideas
Greenspan summary
Greenspan Summary
•Emotions and thoughts are developed through experience (not flashcards)
•Increase thought processing by stimulating emotions- encouraging two-way interaction, and opening and closing circles of comm.
•Assess child’s developmental level and work within that stage
•Cornerstone to DIR Floortime
•http://www.stanleygreenspan.com/about-floortime/
Other social- emotional milestones
4-6 weeks: social smiling
•4-8 months: develops “stranger anxiety”, responds appropriately to facial expressions, tone of voice, laughs, mad when toy taken away
12-16 months: follows simple requests, imitates housework, understands “no”
•18-24 months: temper tantrums, claims ownership of things, initiates own play
Mother as caregiver
- Mother as Caregiver
* Prototype of all other love relations, emotional development
