Social-Emotional Development

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Social-Emotional Development

• Birth to One

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Social-Emotional Development

• A persons basic disposition.
• The way they interact with others.
• How they show their feelings.

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Temperament

• The tendency to react in a certain way
• partly inherited
• prenatal conditions
• ease of birth
• environment

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Characteristics of a babys temperament

• Easy 4 in 10
• Slow to warm up 1 in 10
• Difficult 1 in 10

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Aspects of Social Development

• Interacting with others
• Born with tools for social development
• Understand social messages
• Send signals
• Eventually initiate social contact

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Learning to Trust

• Erik Erikson Learning to trust while avoiding
  mistrust is the social-emotional task of infancy
  basis for later feelings toward others.
• Two key factors in whether infants learn to
  trust
• By having a consistent environment.
• By having their needs met promptly each
  time.

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Meeting psychological needs such as cuddling,
loving, playing, and being talked to usually
creates happier babies,
and happier parents, too!
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Attachment

• The closeness baby develops to those who care for
  them.
• Necessary for healthy brain development.
• Specific attachment behaviors are closely related
  to the babys mental development.

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Infants Express Emotions

• Two basic responses during first three or
• four months
  
• distress shown by crying muscle
  tension
• excitement shown by smiling, cooing,
  wiggling the body

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• By 12 months old, babies express
• love
• fear
• anxiety
• anger
• jealousy
• joy
• sadness

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LOVE

• Babies must realize that they are
• separate from caregivers others.
• Babies begin to feel show
• love and affection to caregivers
• that make them feel full,
• clean, comforted.
• Babies become attached
• to objects that seem to
• offer security.

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FEAR

• Occurs at around 6 months
• Fear of the unknown.
• Fear learned from direct experiences or
  teachings.
• Affects motor mental development.

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Anxiety

• Occurs between
• 10 12 months
• fear of a possible future event.
• separation anxiety babies become anxious when
  the adults they love must leave them for a time.

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Anger

• Occurs between 8 10 months
• Directed toward a person or object.
• Expressed in physical ways
• since they lack language
• skills.
• Can often be prevented or
• reduced by appropriate
• actions by caregivers.

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Emotional development is complex and depends on
brain development in other areas such as
thinking, memory, and language.
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Babies who express a range of emotions, from
happy to unhappy, show healthy development!