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Nurturing natures, attachment and children's emotional, sociocultural and brain development, Graham Music

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-355) and index

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Nurturing natures

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Graham Music

attachment and children's emotional, sociocultural and brain development

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development. Integrating a wealth of both up-to-date and classical research from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience developmental psychology and cross-cultural studies, it weaves these into an accessible enjoyable text which always keeps in mind children recognisable to academics, practitioners and parents. It unpacks the most significant influences on the developing child, including the family and social context. It looks at key developmental stages from life in the womb to the pre-school years and right up until adolescence, covering important topics such as genes and environment, trauma, neglect or resilience. It also examines how children develop language, play and memory and, new to this edition, moral and prosocial capacities. Issues of nature and nurture are addressed and the effects of different kinds of early experiences are unpicked, creating a coherent and balanced view of the developing child in context. Nurturing Natures is written by an experienced child therapist who has used a wide array of research from different disciplines to create a highly readable and scientifically trustworthy text. This book should be essential reading for childcare students, for teachers, social workers, health visitors, early years practitioners and those training or working in child counselling, psychiatry and mental health. Full of fascinating findings, it provides answers to many of the questions people really want to ask about the human journey from conception into adulthood. --, Provided by publisher

Introduction: the blind men and the elephant -- Beginnings of emotional and social development -- Life begins : from conception to birth -- Born to relate -- Infant coping mechanisms, mismatches, and repairs in relating -- Empathy, self, and other minds -- Overarching bodies of ideas -- Attachment -- The importance of culture -- Biology and the brain -- Epigenetics, evolution and how nature meets nurture -- Developmental capacities and stages -- Language, words, and symbols -- Memories : learning who we are and what to expect -- Play: fun, symbolising, practising, and mucking about -- Boys, girls, and gender -- Not just mothers -- Nonmaternal care and childcare -- Middle childhood, siblings, peers and group life -- The place of fathers -- Moving towards adulthood -- Consequences of early experiences -- Trauma, neglect, and their effects -- Resilience and good feelings -- Moral development, antisocial and prosocial behaviour -- Conclusions: earlier experience and its longer-term consequences