Child abuse has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the emotion development of the abused child. Due to a history with the parent that includes a high proportion of negative interactions and an impaired parent-child relationship, the child who has been subjected to physical abuse often manifests psychological symptoms. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect that treatment aimed at increasing the frequency of positive interaction in the parent-child relationship had on the emotional status of the abused child. Results showed that parent-child interaction play sessions were effective in increasing positive interaction and decreasing subsequent abusive behavior in the parent-child dyad. Self-reported parental attitudes toward the child became more positive. Treatment did not generalize totally and was not maintained totally during follow-up. The effect that treatment had on the emotional status of the abused child was less clear, although some improvement was noted. The results of this study have important clinical implications for therapists working with abusive parents in terms of providing an effective intervention for treatment of child abuse. Further investigation of the treatment is warranted. Suggestions for future research are offered.

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This qualitative study examined the perceptions and understandings of various stakeholders in the early childhood sector of Mississippi about kindergarten readiness in response to the implementation of more rigorous academic standards in kindergarten. The participants (N=20) in this study were parent/guardians and teachers at 2 elementary schools in Mississippi and various preschool programs that feed into them including public pre-K, private child care, and Head Start. These perceptions and understandings were compared with official documents including position statements of professional organizations and learning standards. The results of the study provide insight into the perceptions and understandings of the participants as they experience the readiness process from preschool through participation in kindergarten. The qualitative analysis showed that as more rigorous standards have been implemented in kindergarten, all stakeholder groups are experiencing high levels of pressure related to the testing and accountability requirements related to the standards. This has caused a mismatch between the stated values of kindergarten teachers and the practices they reportedly use as they shift to what I conceptualized as more environmental-behaviorist teaching methods versus the social-constructivist, play-based methods they believe to be more effective. The analysis also revealed a breakdown in communication as kindergarten teachers expect the other stakeholder groups to come to them to see what is happening in kindergarten. This is driven by a mismatch between the standards and actual practices. A surprising finding is that the perceived job satisfaction of preschool teachers seems to have improved as they see themselves in a more vital role in the readiness process. This study is organized into five chapters. Chapter I provides an overview and rationale for the study. Chapter II includes a review of the literature which includes historical perspectives about kindergarten readiness, theories of kindergarten readiness, domains of readiness, and stakeholder perspectives of kindergarten readiness. Chapter III provides the methodology for the study. Chapter IV presents the findings from the analysis of data. Chapter V provides a discussion of the findings, suggestions for future research, and implications for practice.

In the United States, approximately 400,000 children reside in foster care, and most have been exposed to caregiver abuse, neglect, or abandonment. A majority of foster children suffer the effects of damaging circumstances including poverty, violence, inferior health care, and substandard housing. Consequently, young foster youth frequently struggle to accomplish developmental tasks such as establishing secure attachment relationships, cultivating preacademic skills, and acquiring social-emotional competence. The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of Peace4Kids, a nonprofit community-based organization, on young foster youths’ social-emotional development and pre-academic skills. Data collected from parents, teachers, and administrators during semi-structured interviews documented children’s experiences as they attended the organization’s Saturday Core Program. Participants noted that as foster children participated in a variety of curricular and co-curricular experiences at Peace4Kids, their social, emotional, and academic development were positively impacted. Parents, teachers, and administrators reported that the organization’s culture of consistency, trust, and accountability promoted secure attachment relationships among foster youth, staff members, and peers at the Saturday Core Program. Participants iterated that secure relationships provided a foundation for foster children to subsequently acquire social and emotional capacities, including persistence, conflict resolution, self-regulation, and autonomy. As youth in foster care developed social-emotional competencies, pre-academic skills such as literacy and numeracy emerged. This study’s findings indicate that a comprehensive approach is necessary to address the unique needs of foster children who have experienced prior trauma. Additionally, this research study contributes to a growing body of work that explores the role of attachment relationships in group and organizational settings.

Technology plays an increasingly significant role in the lives of children and adults, and it is imperative to understand if and how it impacts the development of psychological processes and the subsequent behaviors of preschool-aged children so that we can better understand how to navigate guidelines for use and interventions for overuse. To better understand the relationship between screen time use and a child’s social emotional development, it is important to consider parent time on screens, child time on screens, and any effects an older sibling in the home or parental gender may have on their development. This study gathered screen time usage rates from parents and their preschool-aged children and then measured the social emotional development of these children using an electronic version of the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers, Second Edition (eDECA-2). Results were analyzed using sequential regression models and found child and parent screen time usage to be negatively associated with the social emotional development of the child. There were no moderating effects of the presence of an older sibling in the home. There were only moderating effects for parental gender when considering primary parents, which showed that when a male is a primary parent, increased parental and child screen time leads to a steeper decrease in behavioral concerns than when the primary parent is female. Additionally, categories of screen time usage were analyzed using multiple analyses of variance and showed that parents who used tool-based applications rated their children with higher levels of social emotional development. Results that analyzed the child’s categories of use did not show delineated differences between tool-based and non-tool-based applications.

Child language brokers frequently translate in adult-level situations. Research has suggested that through translating, brokers may develop advanced language, cognitive, and social skills (De Ment, Buriel, and Villanueva, 2005; McQuillan and Tse, 1995), and these may lead to greater academic achievement and self-efficacy (Buriel, Perez, De Ment, Chavez,and Moran, 1998). Additionally, language brokers have been found to increase in biculturalism as they translate for people of different cultures (Acoach and Webb, 2004; Buriel et al., 1998). Brokers might experience reduced acculturative stress, for which biculturalism has been found to be a protective factor (Bacallao and Smokowski, 2005). Despite its possible benefits, brokering has been associated with negative emotions and behavioral problems for some children (Chao, 2006; Weisskirch and Alva, 2002). The mixed results of language brokering studies may partially be related to the age of participants, with translating appearing to be a more positive experience for older adolescents (Orellana and Reynolds, 2008). The purpose of this study was to test relations among language brokering, academic achievement, academic self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, and acculturative stress. I proposed and tested if language brokering was associated with more positive outcomes. In addition, I tested if older brokers had more positive outcomes than younger brokers. Participants included 207 Latino middle school students, aged 10 to 14 years, who completed self-report surveys. Measures included a background demographics questionnaire and scales for language brokering, academic self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, and acculturative stress. Achievement was measured with grades from school records. Results were non-significant for the relation of language brokering with achievement and social self-efficacy when controlling for other predictor variables. In contrast to expectations, translating for more people was associated with decreased academic self-efficacy and greater acculturative stress. Further analysis revealed that language brokering for parents and grandparents was associated with greater acculturative stress, while translating for other people was not. Although translating was associated with more acculturative stress, and older children reported less acculturative stress, age was not found to moderate the relation of language brokering and acculturative stress. Limitations, implications, and suggestions for future directions in language brokering research and clinical work are presented. / text

Pour développer le capital émotionnel, le domaine de l'éducation a besoin des programmes globaux qui pourraient former des individus sains, équilibrés, compétitifs, et capables à apporter le progrès, la paix et la prospérité à la société. Il y a aujourd’hui un besoin urgent de former des individus sains, équilibrés et équipés de compétences émotionnelles, personnelles et sociales pour faire face, dans un premier temps à des problèmes émotionnels, personnels, psychologiques, et socio-économiques, et afin de répondre, dans un deuxième temps, aux exigences du contexte social tout en prenant en compte les futurs défis. Le but de cette recherche était d'étudier les effets d'un programme de formation des compétences émotionnelles sur le développement du capital émotionnel des enfants des écoles primaires au Pakistan. / The purpose of this research was to study the effects of an Emotional Competency Training Program, based on two conceptual models of Mayer & Salovey Model of EI and Goleman model of EI and one action model of Six Seconds Model of EI, on the development of emotional capital of primary school children in Pakistan. The sample of the study was the 4th class students from Amanat Memorial High School in Lahore, Pakistan. The class of 32 students was randomly divided into 16 students for experimental group and 16 for the control group. Different students from both groups could not participate in post-test or follow up and finally the 9 students for each group were included in the final data analysis of this research. The research had a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a follow up after the two month from posttest phase. The data was analyzed statistically by using the multivariate repeated measures analysis of variance technique with SPSS software. The results of the research demonstrate that the experimental group significantly increased the emotional capital scores at post-test phase as compared to the control group’s mean scores. While the experimental group, compared to control group, sustained this development up to the follow-up phase two months after the post-program phase.

O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar a função de cuidar na perspectiva das educadoras de berçário. Participaram deste 15 educadoras de berçário de duas creches públicas federais de Porto Alegre/RS. As educadoras responderam a entrevistas e questionários, e as suas respostas foram examinadas através de análise de conteúdo qualitativa. As verbalizações das educadoras permitiram refletir acerca da possibilidade de um cuidado suficientemente bom ser oferecido na creche. Contudo, algumas falas denunciaram que cuidar de bebês e crianças pequenas é uma tarefa emocionalmente exigente. Frente a isso, destaca-se a necessidade de o fazer do educador ser reconhecido enquanto gerador de sentimentos com os quais os profissionais podem ter dificuldade de lidar sozinhos. Dessa forma, é fundamental que sejam fornecidos dentro das creches espaços de escuta nos quais a equipe possa refletir sobre os sentimentos e ansiedades evocados no trabalho emocionalmente próximo com bebês e crianças pequenas. / This study aimed to investigate the function of care in the perspective of nursery educators. 15 nursery educators from two federal public daycares in Porto Alegre/RS participated in this study. The educators responded to interviews and questionnaires, and their answers were examined through qualitative content analysis. The educators’ verbalizations allowed to reflect on the possibility of a good enough care to be offered in the daycare. However, some statements reported that caring for infants and young children is an emotionally demanding task. In view of that, it is highlighted the importance of the practitioner’s work to be recognized as generator of feelings with which professionals may experience difficulties to cope alone. Thus, it has to be provided within the daycare listening spaces in which the staff can reflect on the feelings and anxieties raised in an emotionally close work with babies and young children.

Didaktiniai žaidimai vaidina svarbų vaidmenį, siekiant pamoką padaryti įdomesne, didinant mokinių motyvaciją dalyvauti mokymosi procese. Pedagoginėje literatūroje ir mokslinėje bei mokyklinėje praktikoje jau daugelį metų diskutuojama apie šio metodo taikymo mokyme galimybes. Žaidimo tinkamumą mokymui savo pasisakymuose minėjo Platonas ir Aristotelis. Mokslinėje literatūroje, pedagoginėje publicistikoje plačiai aptariamas didaktinių žaidimų naudojimas mokymosi procese. Mokslininkai, pedagogai praktikai (Montessori M., 2004, Pokrovskis A., 1994, Grinevičienė N., 2002, Kontautienė Z.,1978 ir kt.) nagrinėja didaktinių žaidimų panaudojimo galimybes ugdant skirtingo amžiaus vaikus, aiškinasi šio metodo naudojimo privalumus skirtingų dalykų pamokose. Tačiau iki šiol mažai nagrinėtas didaktinių žaidimų, skirtų padėti intelekto sutrikimus turinčių vaikų jausmų bei emocijų pažinimui. Vaiko emocinio vystymosi problema - viena iš aktualių problemų psichologijoje. Poddiakov A. N. (2000) (Поддьяков) savo darbe teigia, kad įvairiausių mokslininkų darbuose (Henderson B., Keller H., Rotenberg V. C. ir kt.) įrodyta, kad emocijų susiformavimo jų gausos ir diferenciacijos lygis priklauso nuo pažintinių procesų kokybės: pojūčių, jausmų suvokimo, atminties, mąstymo, motyvacijos pobūdžio bei valingu procesų būklės. Darbo objektas: protiškai atsilikusio vaiko emocinė raida didaktinio žaidimo metu, užtikrinus atitinkamas pedagoginės sąlygas. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti didaktinių žaidimų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This master thesis consists of two papers devoted to emotional development of the child during didactic games. The first paper investigates theoretical substantiation of the problem. It discusses the roles of didactic games in child’s emotional development. The article deals with the general construct of disability, and the use of the term intellectual disability. The second paper presents results of experimental work. Experiment passed in three stages: Ascertaining stage of experiment - have revealed a degree of emotional development of children leaning on a condition of empathy. Distribution of children in groups has been lead on the basis of allocated levels of empathy by V. Мegedev (1996). Forming stage – was used system of didactic games. Control stage lean on the same methods, as at the first stage. At this stage we seek to reveal influence didactic games on emotional development of the children. Results of an experimental research convince us of that, didactic games influence not only emotional development of children, but also on development of the person as a whole. Thus, under influence of a purposeful management in didactic games children with mental disabilities have an emotional progress more intensively.