Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence

<p><em>Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems</em> offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence from delight surprise and love to anger distress and fear. Taking a chronological approach each chapter focuses on a specific emotion and covers the theories and research relating to its development from infants’ emotional capabilities to the changes in self-understanding and self-conscious emotions of adolescence. </p><p>Hay integrates the approaches of classic developmental differentiation and differential emotions theory to create a comprehensive textbook with a unique approach to the subject matter showcasing a range of research linking emotions to biological underpinnings and early experiences. This wide-ranging book also includes coverage of differences in temperament developmental psychopathology emotion regulation and development of emotional understanding and attachment. </p><p>It is core reading for students of developmental psychology health psychology child welfare and social work as well as anyone taking a course on social and emotional development courses. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in educational and clinical psychology and child psychiatry. </p>