This course explores the powerful emotions behind behaviors…A particular focus of the course will be applying an understanding of childhood development to the participants’ work experiences.
Objectives:
• The students will be able to list salient developmental accomplishments of the first, second and third years of life.
• The students will be able to describe some of the crucial roles that early feelings and relationships play in the in the first, second, and third years of life.
• The students will be able to list salient developmental accomplishments of the fourth, fifth, and sixth years of life.
•In specific, the students will be able to describe the crucial role that feelings and relationships play in the in the fourth, fifth, and sixth years of life.
• The students will be able to describe how all behavior has meaning
• The students will be able to describe how disruptive behaviors serve as defenses against painful emotions.
• Participants will be able to describe the meaning of a child’s behavior which will allow the adult to approach the child more effectively.
• Participants will be able to describe the basic tenets of attachment theory.
• Participants will be able to describe the immediate and lasting impact of siblings, with special attention to twins, age differences, sexual differences as well as neo-natal deaths and miscarriages (unborn siblings).
• Participants will be able to describe the role of the father infant-toddler relationship in the development of the infant.
• Participants will be able to describe the literature on father loss and explain how this phenomenon affects both boys and girls.
• Participants will be able to explain the multi-faceted effect of the varying degrees of parental loss and different degrees of parental involvement (legal and actual).
• Participants will be able to describe the typical responses children have to trauma and loss.
• Participants will be able to assess the inner experiences and turmoil of adopted children and children in foster care.
• Participants will be able to delineate the challenges which face parents of children with special needs.
• The students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of childhood development and apply it to their work experience.
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