1. Emotional Development
Birth to One Year

2. Emotional Development
What is it?
The process of learning to recognize and express one’s feelings and to establish one’s identity as a unique person

3. Healthy Emotional Development
Self-Confident
Can handle stress
Shows empathy

4. Social Development What is it?
The process of learning to interact with others and to express oneself to others.

5. Healthy Social Development
Shows tolerance for others
Can communicate well with others
Listens to different point of views before acting

6. Influences that shape Development
The bond formed between the parent and child
The atmosphere of the home
Temperament of the child

7. Attachment
What is it?
The bond between a parent or caregiver and the child

8. Study on Attachment
Harry Harlow made monkey-shaped forms out of chicken wire AND soft cloth
Used substitute mothers to raise the monkeys
He found that the baby monkeys clung to the “mothers” made of soft cloth
Monkeys needed to feel physical closeness as well as receive a feeding
When they were older they did not know how to relate to other monkeys because they did not develop normal social relationships due to the lack of interaction with the real mothers

9. Studies done on Human
Children in orphanage had little personal care from adults.
Physical and emotional development of the children were slower than normal
Baylor University – studied abused and neglected children. They failed to receive love, touch, and opportunities for learning and had brains 20 to 30% smaller than average

10. Failure to Thrive What is it?
A condition in which they baby does not grow and develop properly
Can happen if:
Receive little attention
Little Encouragement
Lack of love and attention