Child Development: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition

✍ Scribed by Douglas Davies

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 513
• Series: Social work practice with children and families
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The author explains how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among early relationships, brain development, and the social environment. Developmental processes of infancy, toddlerhood, the preschool years, and middle childhood are described. The book shows how children in each age range typically behave, think, and relate to others, and what happens when development goes awry. It demonstrates effective ways to apply developmental knowledge to clinical assessment and intervention. Vivid case examples, observation exercises, and quick-reference tables facilitate learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright Page
......Page 5
Dedication
......Page 6
About the Author
......Page 7
Preface
......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Contents......Page 16
PART I. Contexts of Development: A Transactional Approach......Page 20
The Maturational Perspective......Page 22
Developmental Pathways and Intervention,......Page 23
CHAPTER 1 Attachment as a Context of Development......Page 26
Functions of Attachment......Page 27
Patterns of Attachment......Page 30
Attachment Classifications......Page 31
Attachment, Class, and Culture......Page 38
Attachment and Future Development......Page 40
Parental Models of Attachment......Page 43
Attachment Theory and Family Systems Theory......Page 47
The Attachment Perspective in the Assessment of Young Children,......Page 48
Kelly and Her Mother: A Case Example......Page 49
CHAPTER 2 Brain Development......Page 58
Early Brain Growth: Synaptogenesis and Myelination,......Page 59
Synaptic Overproduction and Pruning,......Page 61
Bonding, Attachment, and Brain Development,......Page 62
Mirror Neurons and the Social Brain,......Page 64
Can Parents Build Better Brains?......Page 65
Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Brain Development,......Page 66
Stress, Trauma, and Brain Development,......Page 68
Early Trauma and Brain Development,......Page 70
Studies of Institutionally Deprived Young Children,......Page 75
Research on Risk and Resilience,......Page 79
Protective Factors and Processes......Page 80
Risk Factors,......Page 84
Conclusion,......Page 120
Appendix 3.1. Summary of Risk and Protective Factors,......Page 122
How to Use Risk Factor Analysis,......Page 124
Prediction of Risk: Assessing Current Risk and Protective Factors,......Page 125
Retrospective Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors,......Page 135
PART II. The Course of Child Development......Page 144
Barriers to Understanding the Child’s Perspective,......Page 146
Interactions between Maturation and Environment,......Page 148
Organization of Developmental Chapters,......Page 149
The Interaction between Maturation and Caregiving,......Page 150
Metaphors of Infant–Parent Transactions,......Page 151
Caregivers’ Adaptations to Developmental Change,......Page 152
The Neonatal Period: Birth–4 Weeks,......Page 153
Age 1–3 Months,......Page 156
Age 3–6 Months,......Page 161
A Normal Infant and a Competent Parent: A Case Example,......Page 166
Age 6–12 Months,......Page 168
Appendix 5.1. Summary of Infant Development, Birth–12 Months of Age,......Page 179
CHAPTER 6 Practice with Infants......Page 182
Assessment Issues,......Page 183
Assessment and Brief Interventions with an Infant and Her Family: A Case Example,......Page 187
Observation Exercises,......Page 202
CHAPTER 7 Toddler Development......Page 204
Attachment and Secure Base Behavior,......Page 205
Cognitive Development,......Page 211
Language and Communication,......Page 212
Symbolic Communication and Play,......Page 219
Regulation of Emotion and Behavior,......Page 222
Moral Development,......Page 228
The Developing Self,......Page 234
Appendix 7.1. Summary of Toddler Development, 1–3 Years of Age,......Page 241
Assessment,......Page 244
Assessment of Toddler Development: A Case Example,......Page 249
Intervention: Parent–Child Therapy,......Page 263
Parent–Child Therapy with an Abused Toddler: A Case Example,......Page 266
Observation Exercises,......Page 268
Interview Exercise......Page 269
CHAPTER 9 Preschool Development......Page 270
Physical Development,......Page 271
Attachment,......Page 273
Social Development,......Page 275
Language Development......Page 281
Symbolic Communication and Play......Page 286
Cognitive Development......Page 289
Regulation of Emotion and Behavior......Page 298
Moral Development......Page 306
The Developing Self,......Page 313
Appendix 9.1. Summary of Preschool Development, 3–6 Years of Age,......Page 319
Assessment,......Page 323
Child Care Consultation with a Preschool Child: A Case Example,......Page 324
Intervention with Preschoolers: Play Therapy......Page 329
Using Play in the Treatment of Preschoolers,......Page 331
Medical Treatment as a Developmental Interference,......Page 332
Play Therapy with a Preschool Child: A Case Example,
......Page 334
Observation Exercise,......Page 345
CHAPTER 11 Middle Childhood Development......Page 346
Physical Development,......Page 347
The Transition from Preschool to Middle Childhood,......Page 348
Attachment......Page 353
Social Development,......Page 355
Language and Communication,......Page 363
Play and Fantasy,......Page 366
Cognitive Development,......Page 369
Self-Regulation,......Page 377
Moral Development,......Page 384
Sense of Self,......Page 386
Toward Adolescence......Page 397
Appendix 11.1. Summary of Middle Childhood Development, 6–12 Years of Age,......Page 399
Assessment,......Page 403
Intervention,......Page 412
Working to Master the Trauma of Repeated Abuse: A Case Example,......Page 417
Using Developmental Strengths: A Case Example,......Page 425
Observation Exercises,......Page 433
CHAPTER 13 Conclusion: Developmental Knowledge and Practice......Page 434
Applying Practice Knowledge and Skills,......Page 435
Ever-Present Complications in Practice......Page 436
Intervention and Developmental Outcome,......Page 438
References......Page 440
Index......Page 500