Social-Emotional Development

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This paper focuses mainly on the psychologist Erik Erikson's eight stages of social-emotional development. The paper explores each of these eight steps of development. The author discusses further methods of encouraging a child's positive emotional and social development, for example, showing respect, encouraging communication, building trust and competence and providing honest recognition and praise to children. In conclusion, the paper expands on the importance of the implementation of these strategies and methodologies into the school and home environments.

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"In a less broad sense, teachers must be aware of the individual emotional needs of their students in order to help them develop positive emotional health. Assessing and targeting specific covert and overt behaviors for improvement for individual students will aid in fostering positive emotional health. For example, the student who puts herself down may need to receive a reprimand for speaking poorly of herself. Or, the teacher of this same student may need to make a conscious effort to praise her in the areas in which she exhibits low self-esteem in an attempt to increase self-esteem. Or, the teacher may need to utilize a token reinforcement strategy and reward the student with token reinforcement when the she speaks positively of herself (Bray, Kehle & Marini-Scully, 2000)."

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