Key Topics in Children's Emotional Development

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-77499-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: BPS Key Topics in Psychology

Key Topics in Children’s Emotional Development explores how children express, understand, and manage their emotions. From infancy to young adulthood, the book examines how young people develop feelings such as happiness, fear, anger, sadness, and empathy, while also addressing the challenges some face in managing these emotions. It introduces the foundational theories, methodologies, and historical context of emotional development, providing a comprehensive framework for understanding children’s emotional growth.

The book delves into the development of key emotions and the pathways that may lead to clinically significant emotional problems, such as anxiety, phobias, depression, and Conduct Disorder. Organized to reflect the ages at which children begin to express different emotions, it pairs chapters on primary emotions with discussions of individual differences and related emotional disorders. Additionally, it explores contemporary issues affecting young people’s emotional well-being, including loneliness, body image concerns, gender dysphoria, racism, political unrest, and climate change. The book highlights the latest prevention and intervention strategies, offering practical insights for addressing children’s mental health challenges.

This book is an essential resource for students of developmental and abnormal psychology, as well as those studying educational, clinical, and forensic psychology. It will also appeal to postgraduate students pursuing professional qualifications in psychiatry, social work, paediatric nursing, teaching, and early childhood education.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hay, Dale F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Importance of Studying Children’s Emotions

Section 1. Key Foundations, Theories and Methodologies

Chapter 2.  The Study of Children’s Emotional Development

Chapter 3. Key Methods for Studying Emotional Development

Section 2. Key Emotions and Empirical Findings

Chapter 4. Expressing Feelings: Infants’ Crying, Smiling and Laughing

Chapter 5. Fear and Loathing in Infancy and Childhood

Chapter 6. Worries, Phobias, and Anxiety Disorders

Chapter 7. Anger in Infancy and Childhood

Chapter 8. Difficult Temperament, Angry Aggressiveness and Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Chapter 9. Empathy, Callousness, and Conduct Disorder

Chapter 10. Sadness

Chapter 11. Depression in Childhood and Adolescence

Section 3. Key Impacts on Research, Practice and Policy

Chapter 12. Impacts of Research on Children’s Emotions on Practice and Policy

Section 4. Key Emerging Areas

Chapter 13. Emerging Areas of Novel Research on Children’s Emotional Development

Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Dale F. Hay is Professor Emerita in the School of Psychology in Cardiff University. She is a developmental psychologist whose studies of children’s development have been funded by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the Waterloo Foundation in the UK, and the National Science Foundation in the US. She has written an earlier textbook on emotional development and co-authored a book on statistics as well as editing a number of books on topics in developmental psychology.