Pathways to Competence: Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children - Taschenbuch

Readers will return to this book again and again for its comprehensive coverage of the social and emotional aspects of child development. Pathways to Competence covers nine aspects of social and emotional development in children from birth to 6 years: a sense of "body self"; attachment to caregivers; play and imagination; language and communication; self-esteem; morality and conscience; emotion regulation; concentration, planning, and problem solving; and social competence, empathy, and prosocial behavior. These areas are examined in facinating detail in separate chapters, each with a summary of research findings, an age-specific description of how children develop, explicit guidelines to help professionals enjoy positive interactions with parents, and a masterful bibliography. Students and professionals will also find practical content they can use in their daily work, such as group activities, photos and tables that illuminate key points, and lists of further readings and children's books. Whether used in the field or in community colleges and graduate programs, this is a thorough and versatile text. Not only does it serve as an ideal textbook for students, it also supports effective partnering with families to promote children's healthy social and emotional lives. Preservice and in-service professionals will want to keep this texbook for the rest of their careers.