Social Development
This book tries to trace the course of social development in the child from birth to maturity. It assumes that the neonate comes into the world with the endowment and the need to contact others, to attach itself to the surrounding humans and by this very
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to the memory of H.B.
Studies in Developmental Paediatrics Series Editor Margaret Pollak
Volume 4
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Ruth Blunden Senior Psychologist Sir Wilfrid Sheldon Children's Centre King's College Hospital Medical School London
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Published in the UK and Europe by MTP Press Limited Falcon House Lancaster, England British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Blunden, Ruth Social development. - (Studies in developmental paediatrics; v. 4) 1. Socialization I. Title 303.3'2 HQ783 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-9783-3 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-9781-9 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-9781-9 Published in the USA by MTP Press A division of Kluwer Boston Inc. 190 Old Derby Street Hingham, MA 02043, USA Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Blunden, Ruth. Social development. (Studies in developmental paediatrics; v. 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Socialization. 2. Child development. I. Title. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Child development. 2. Socialization. WS 105.5.S6 B658sl HQ783.B56 303.3'2 81-20862 AACR2
Copyright © 1982 Ruth Blunden Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1982 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from the publishers.
CONTENTS
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Series Editor's Note Introduction Acknowledgements Communicating with the infant Attachment and the growth of fear Separation experiences First steps to independence Who am I? The establishment of identity The middle school years Social adjustment in adolescence Assessment and treatment References Index
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Studies in Developmental Paediatrics
Other books in the series include: Language Development and Assessment - Joan Reynell The Development of Hearing - Sybil Yeates The Development of Vision - P. A. Gardiner Neuromuscular Development - P. Robson Adaptive Development - Margaret Pollak
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SERIES EDITOR'S NOTE
Adequate social development is a necessity for all children in order that they may live and interact happily and successfully with their families, friends and society. If adequate social development is important for all children, nowhere is it more essential than for the handicapped. Often, by concentrating upon the fulfilment of potential in social skills, the severely handicapped can become more acceptable to society and thus live within it rather than suffer segregation and isolation. Although subject - as are all parameters of development - to the basic rules of development, social development is somewhat different to the other parameters for several reasons: It is often not seen in isolation but superimposed upon other aspects of behaviour. It is seen in the home, nursery, school and street. It is subject, in a marked degree, to environmental and cultural attitudes and is thus affected by child rearing pr
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