ABSTRACT

This book provides an indispensable account of current understandings of children’s emotional development. Integrating the latest research findings from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience and developmental psychology, it weaves these into a readable and easy-to-digest text.

It provides a tour of the most significant influences on the developing child, always bearing in mind the family and social context. It looks at key developmental stages, from life in the womb to the pre-school years and right up until adolescence, whilst also examining how we develop key capacities such as language, play and memory. Issues of nature and nurture are addressed and the effects of different kinds of early experiences are unpicked, looking at both individual children and larger-scale longitudinal studies. Psychological ideas and research are carefully integrated with those from neurobiology and understandings from other cultures to create a coherent and balanced view of the developing child in context.

Nurturing Natures integrates a wide array of complex academic research from different disciplines to create a book that is not only highly readable but also scientifically trustworthy. Full of fascinating findings, it provides answers to many of the questions people really want to ask about the human journey from conception into adulthood.

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Part I BEGINNINGS OF EMOTIONAL AND

chapter 2|10 pages

Life begins: From conception to birth

chapter 3|10 pages

Born to relate

chapter 5|12 pages

Empathy, self, and other minds

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Part II OVERARCHING BODIES OF IDEAS

chapter 6|12 pages

Attachment

chapter 7|12 pages

The importance of culture

chapter 8|14 pages

Biology and the brain

part |2 pages

Part III: Developmental capacities and stages

chapter 9|12 pages

Language, words, and symbols

chapter 12|14 pages

Boys, girls, and gender

part |2 pages

Part IV NOT JUST MOTHERS

chapter 13|10 pages

Nonmaternal care and childcare

chapter 15|12 pages

The place of fathers

chapter 16|14 pages

Moving towards adulthood

part |2 pages

Part V: Consequences of early experiences

chapter 17|10 pages

Trauma, neglect, and their effects

chapter 18|14 pages

Resilience and good feelings

chapter 19|8 pages

Genes, nature, and nurture