Social- emotional Development

Ecological Systems Theory

A child’s development is influenced by multiple layers of environmental systems, each layer interacts to shape the child’s growth.

Authoritarian Parenting style

Strict approach by parents to which enforces high expectations and rigid rules, prioritize obedience and discipline rely on punishment, with limit warmth to responses to the child’s needs.

Permissive Parenting Style

Relax approach to parenting where parents show warmth and responsiveness but few rules and low exceptions, avoid forcing strict boundaries and give children everything indulging their desires.

Authoritative Parenting Style

Balance approach to parenting combines high exceptions with warmth and support, parents support clear rules and encourage independence while being responsive and open to their children’s needs and opinions.

Temperament

The inmate traits that influence how children responds to their environment, including activity level, emotional reactivity, and adopt adoptability, this later is basis of a person.

Imprinting

Rapid and instinctive form of the early learning where certain animals, particularly birds, form strong attachments at the first moving object seen.

Contact Comfort

The sense of security and emotional relief derived from physical touch, mostly between infants and caregivers.

Separation Anxiety

A distress response experienced by infants or young children when separated from primary caregivers.

Attachment Styles

Patterns of behavior that describe how children form emotional bonds with caregivers, influencing relationships in life.

Secure Attachment

Patterns where children feel confident and trust that their caregiver will meet their needs.

Avoidant Attachment

Pattern where children show independence and avoid seeking comfort from their caregivers, often resulting from emotionally unavailable or unresponsive caregiver.

Anxious Attachment

Patterns where children are overly clingy and anxious about separation from caregiver stemming from inconsistent caregiving.

Disorganized Attachment

Pattern characterized by inconsistent or confused behaviors towards a caregiver, often resulting from trauma or abuse.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Potentially traumatic events or conditions, such as abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction that occurs before age 18 and can have long term impacts on health and well being.