Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Bergese

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 78
• Series: Understanding Your Child
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds introduces the challenges that face children as they start to make their transition from childhood into adolescence. Children at this age begin to express independence and confidence in their capability that may extend beyond their direct experience. Adults caring for their well-being need to monitor the new dimensions in the child's life, such as competitiveness and its impact on relationships at school and at home. Rebecca Bergese guides the reader through the broad range of emotional and social challenges experienced by children as they are encouraged to take on greater responsibility. This book is essential reading for parents, caregivers and professionals who are seeking to understand and support a child at this vulnerable stage of development.

✦ Table of Contents

FRONT COVER......Page 1
Understanding10–11-Year-Olds......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Becoming “two figures”......Page 14
1 Family Life......Page 17
2 Changing Families: Bereavements, Separations and Dislocations......Page 33
3 Social Life......Page 39
4 Changing Body Changing Self......Page 51
5 School Life......Page 55
6 Hard Times: When Help Is Needed......Page 65
HELPFUL ORGANIZATIONS......Page 71
RECOMMENDED READING......Page 73
INDEX
......Page 75