SOCIAL-AND-EMOTIONAL-DEVELOPMENT.ppt

Social and EMotional Development

1. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

2. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Social and emotional development
includes the child’s experience,
expression, and management of emotions
and the ability to establish positive and
rewarding relationships with others

3. Components that contributes to a child’s social and emotional development:
•Emotional awareness
•Social interaction
•Self regulation
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

4. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF infant
Infants' social-emotional
development includes an
emerging awareness of self and
others. Infants demonstrate this
foundation in a number of ways.
By the age of nine to 12 months,
infants developed a distinct
personality and demonstrates
emotions like sadness,
happiness, anger, fear, hurt or
discomfort.

5. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT OF infant
Herearesomeofthesocialandemotionalmilestonesyoucan
expect:
•RecognizesParent’sVoice
•Smilesatfamiliarfaces
•Reactstodiscomfortandpain
•Fearofstrangersorstaresatstrangers
•Enjoysbeingtootherchildren

6. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF toddler and preschooler
Toddlers and Pre-schoolers learn to explore and express feelings, engage
with others, and become more independent when it comes to getting their
needs met.
Some Social and Emotional Milestone:
12 to 18 months
* Starts basic communication * Repeats sounds or actions to get attention.
* Engages in simple pretend behavior (feeding a doll)
* Interacts with family members

7. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF toddler and preschooler
Some Social and Emotional Milestone:
2 to 3 years old
•Has temper tantrums
•Starts to extend relationships to others
•Starts to understand emotions and what they mean to others
•Starts to name friend’s and may understand when a friend is upset or sad

8. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF toddler and preschooler
Some Social and Emotional Milestone:
Milestones include:
4 years-5 years old:
•Starts to play with others and might prefer it over independent play.
•Starts to share more with others
•Can be more physically affectionate towards others

9. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF school-age
A child’s social and emotional development includes making friends, playing
with others, and reacting to different situations.
Some of the milestones you may see at this age are:
•They will begin to experience feelings of jealousy.
•Beginning at 5 children will begin to notice the differences in gender and by the
age of 8 or 9 they’ll begin to play with both genders.
•These kids begin to imitate adult behavior.
•Kids this age will enjoy competition, and want to play games with friends, but will
struggle with failure and loss.
•Becomes excessively moody if puberty begins

10. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF adolescence
As their social circles expand,adolescents spend less time with their families
and may focus more on their peers. Young people also develop a greater capacity
to form stronger relationships with adults outside of their families who may function
as mentors.
Building new connections and establishing identities outside of the context of the
family is a normal part of healthy development. Interacting with people outside of
the family circle can teach adolescents how to maintain healthy relationships in
different contexts and identify roles they can play in the broader community.

11. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF
adolescent
Some of the milestones you may see at this age are:
•Have more interest in romantic relationships and sexuality
•Spend less time with parents and more time with friends
•Feel a lot of sadness or depression, which can lead to poor grades at school,
alcohol or drug use, unsafe sex, and other problems
•Go through less conflict with parents
•Have a deeper capacity for caring and sharing and for developing more intimate
relationships