Emotional development Flashcards
What is emotional development?
Is the change over time in understanding and capacity for the feelings of oneself and others
What is development?
Development is the process of change a person go through throughout the lifespan
What is emotional development impacted by?
Emotional development is related to the impact that someone’s early years Have had on their brain’s development and function, capacity to respond to stress, ability to self regulate and form trusting relationships
Developed through a complex process commencing in childhood and continuing into adult hood
What does the way people interpret and respond to feelings have?
A major impact on behaviour and choices
Impact on how people experience enjoyment in life satisfaction, including coping with life changes and challenges
What is emotional development and well-being also known as?
Social – emotional development or psychosocial development
Regarding emotional development and well-being what is the process of dynamic interactions referring to?
Interactions within the developing person (intrapersonal)
With other people (interpersonal)
With the influence and into relation of social and cultural environment (complex)
What did children learn about emotions in childhood
What feelings and emotions are
Understanding how and why they experience emotions
Recognising their own feelings and those of others
Developing effective regulation and management skills
In the first four years of life what does a child’s brain to?
Go through 80% of growth
Most significant time period of growth
Laying with foundations for the ongoing development of social and emotional well-being
How did children initially experience emotion?
They experience physical responses, including heart rate breathing
They’ll have language and basic motor skills developed so that’s why you say things like tantrums
thinking becomes more complex influencing feeling behaviours as they get older then emotions get developed beyond physical as this happens
Went to children start to develop a sense of self?
Two years onwards
When referring to development of emotions what is the progression of early years to old childhood
Early years
Physical reactions and behaviour
Eg butterflies, acting out, basic emos
Oldr years (and sense of self)
More complex emotions
Example sinus, surprise, elation, embarrassment, shame, guilt, pride and empathy
What are the 5 Influences on emotional development?
Parents, familial and cultural values and beliefs about appropriate and inappropriate ways expressing emotions
Effectiveness of children’s emotional needs being met
Childs temperaments
Learned emotional behaviours children observe or experience
Pressures and stress soars families and children experience and the resources they have to effectively respond
What are the domains Of early childhood development and how does social emotional fit into the others?
Social and emotional development is in every domain
they all begin in family context
Influenced by peers and social contacts and community
Six domains include language, cognitive, gross motor, fine motor, social and emotional, self-help and adaptive and spiritual and moral
What is the Identity and emotional development of birth - 3 months?
Fused to mother (or other caregiver) exists as one
What is the Identity and emotional development 4-5th months?
Infant starts to recognise the mother is a seperate being
