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Question 1

What is social and emotional development?

Answer 1

Social and emotional development is linked to the ability to make relationships, co-operate with others and express emotions. Typical patterns of social and emotional development depend on the quality of attachment.

Question 2

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 0-1 years old?

Answer 2

• Starts to focus on familiar faces and smile
• Begins to cry when play ceases
• may self-soothe by sucking fingers or rocking.

Question 3

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 1-2 years old?

Answer 3

• Beginning to empathise with another persons distress by showing own distress
• Shows affection to familiar family members and friends.
• Starting to experience anxiety when separated from primary carers.

Question 4

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 2-3 years old?

Answer 4

• Engaging in parallel play
• Showing kindness and compassion towards others spontaneously
• Showing increasing independence.

Question 5

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 3-5 years old?

Answer 5

• Starting to verbalise a range of feelings
• Separating from primary carers more easily.
• Expressing likes and dislikes

Question 6

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 5-7 years old?

Answer 6

• Beginning to feel self conscious and embarrassed
• Can co-operate in deciding rules to games
• able to communicate with others freely and without prompts from adults.

Question 7

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 7-11 years old?

Answer 7

• Friendships are stable and important, usually same gender
• Understand rules and consequences
• Able to manage their immediate impulses
• Self esteem is usually positive in this period

Question 8

What is the typical social and emotional development at ages 11-16 years old?

Answer 8

• Increasing amount of time is spent with friends than with family members
• Increasing levels of insecurity as a result of puberty, peer pressure and developing sense of the ideal self
• Exploration of own identity and a distancing from family.