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IECD-550 Social-Emotional Development

4 semester credits


This course provides basic background information on the history, neuroscience foundations, the different developmental models and theoretical constructs involved in understanding the different aspects of social-emotional development occurring during infancy and early childhood, both in normal and disordered functioning. The course combines lectures, reading materials and videotaped examples to achieve its learning objectives.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):  

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

  1. Explain the philosophical origins of the idea that emotions need to be regulated or controlled in order for an individual to thrive.
  2. Explain an interpersonal model of emotional development and regulation in infants and young children.
  3. Explain the basic principles of the functional/emotional model of development and the role of emotions in the development of symbols and intelligence.
  4. Understand the ways in which increasingly complex and textured emotional interactions with caregivers promote symbolic development and progress in functional emotional development.
  5. Explain the benefit of the functional/emotional model for both assessments and intervention.
  6. Describe how each functional emotional developmental capacity contribute to emotional, intellectual and societal development (i.e., what does it enable the child to do in each of these areas).
  7. Explain what it means to say that disorders like autism, ADHD, or conduct disorder are downstream phenomena, and the implications of this developmental pathways model for assessment and intervention.
  8. Explain the concept of Secondary Altriciality and its bearing on our views about the role of certain types of caregiving experiences on a child’s development, especially in earliest infancy.
  9. Explain the role that emotions and emotional signaling plays in language development, and the implications of this understanding for our views about genetic determinism in general.
  10. Explain how emotions serve as the orchestra leader for the mind’s many functions.
  11. Describe the social, political and global implications of examining human development through the life-span functional emotional developmental perspective.



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