Temperament and Children: Profiles of Individual Differences

✍ Scribed by Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book presents an empirical model of commonly occurring individual differences in children that is derived from a large-scale research effort assessing parental and teacher perceptions of children in middle childhood. It examines eight characteristic behavioral traits, most of which have been widely shown to be present in infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The book demonstrates the importance of considering profiles of these relatively stable individual differences for the educational, social, and emotional life of the child. It describes characteristic behaviors of children within each profile – emphasizing the assets and liabilities of each – and how they are perceived by their parents, teachers, and peers. Chapters explore issues related to the most developmentally effective management of children exhibiting each profile type.

In addition, the book addresses a critical need in child development, parenting, and teaching to understand the wide range of individual differences observed every day in school-aged children. Not only does this volume underscore that commonly occurring differences can be understood as being normal and do not suggest a pathology, it also discusses implications of the model in diagnosing pathology. The book describes what is known about the stability of temperament behaviors and profiles across the lifespan as well as the origins of these behaviors.

Key topics addressed include:

• Nurturing development of well-adjusted children.
• Causes of individual differences in children’s behavior.
• Temperamental tendencies and profiles of children.
• Diagnosing psychopathology in children.

This book is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental, clinical child and school psychology, social work, public health, pediatrics, family studies, educational psychology and counseling, and all other interrelated disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
We Need a New Model of Normal Behavior Differences in Children (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 3-12
The Most Important Behavioral Traits of Children (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 13-25
Development of Behavioral Profiles (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 27-34
Front Matter ....Pages 35-35
Exceptionally Well-Adjusted High Achievers (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 37-50
Fostering the Development of Well-Adjusted Children (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 51-62
Average Children: Two Temperamental Profiles (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 63-79
Fostering the Development of Average Children (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 81-88
Shy and Socially Withdrawn Children: Two Temperament Profiles (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 89-106
Fostering the Development of Shy, Withdrawn Children (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 107-117
Poorly Self-Regulated Children: Two Temperament Profiles (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 119-135
Fostering the Development of Poorly Self-Regulated Children (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 137-148
Front Matter ....Pages 149-149
Stability of Temperament Traits and Profiles (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 151-158
Why Children Exhibit Different Behavioral Patterns (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 159-170
Diagnostic Implications of Temperament-Based Profiles (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 171-184
Limitations, Major Findings, and Implications (Roy P. Martin, A. Michele Lease, Helena R. Slobodskaya)....Pages 185-195
Back Matter ....Pages 197-286

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Child and School Psychology; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Clinical Psychology; Public Health