Guiding Children&aposs Social Development and Learning Theory and Skills [Paperback]

Updated throughout and featuring an emphasis on NAEYC and other standards, GUIDING CHILDREN'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: THEORY AND SKILLS, Ninth Edition, focuses on ways professionals can help children develop both positive feelings about themselves and social competence. You'll find practical, developmentally appropriate strategies for how to work with children and families from many different backgrounds and circumstances, and in a variety of group settings. With the help of this text, you'll avoid much of the guesswork and frustration that can hinder practitioners' efforts to influence children's social development and behavior. And, you'll obtain a unified framework for decision-making and professional practice that incorporates sound principles of children's development, relationship enhancement, and behavior management. This is a book you'll want to keep and refer to long after you leave the course. This text has more in-depth content on many important concepts in child guidance and parenting such as an entire chapter on resiliency. It includes information on attachment and challenging behavior. I have to supplement the current text I am using to get the in-depth content I want for my students. A comprehensive tool that students can use to understand content, apply information, and make evaluative conclusions based on relevant real world experiences. This book will be the most valuable book a young teacher will have on her bookshelf and will refer back to it for many years to come. 1. Making a Difference in Children's Lives. 2. Good Beginnings: Establishing Positive Relationships with Infants and Toddlers. 3. Building Positive Relationships through Nonverbal Communication. 4. Promoting Children's Positive Sense of Self through Verbal Communication. 5. Supporting Children's Emotional Development and Learning. 6. Building Resilience in Children. 7. Play as a Context for Social Development and Learning. 8. Supporting Children's Peer Relationships and Frilã=