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Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development. It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others. [ 1 ]
Seen in its social context, the life stages were linear for an individual but circular for societal development: [33] In Freud's view, development is largely complete by adolescence. [ 58 ] In contrast, one of Freud's students, Erik Erikson (1902–1994) believed that development continues throughout life.
Adolescence is a critical period in social development because adolescents can be easily influenced by the people they develop close relationships with. This is the first time individuals can truly make their own decisions, which also makes this a sensitive period.
Social development. Is socially active. [31] Smiles to attract attention and responds when interacted with. [31] Able to tell if a person is a stranger. [33] Enjoys playing with others, especially with parents. [33] Language development. Able to blow raspberries and pronounce consonants such as "ba", "da", and "ga". [31]
During adolescence, peer groups tend to face dramatic changes. Adolescents tend to spend more time with their peers and have less adult supervision. Peer groups give a sense of security and identity. A study found that during the adolescent phase as adolescents spend double time with their peers compared to the time youth spend with their ...
Robert Selman developed his developmental theory of role-taking ability based on four sources. [4] The first is the work of M. H. Feffer (1959, 1971), [5] [6] and Feffer and Gourevitch (1960), [7] which related role-taking ability to Piaget's theory of social decentering, and developed a projective test to assess children's ability to decenter as they mature. [4]
The adolescent's social options for friendship and romance are limited by her own crowd and by other crowds. [ 9 ] Often crowds reinforce the behaviors that originally caused an individual to be labeled part of that crowd, which can positively or negatively influence the individual (toward academic achievement or drug use, for example).
These social "cliques" fundamentally influence adolescent life and development. [ 3 ] : p.155–164 [ 5 ] Perhaps because they are perceived as an external threat to parental authority, undesired changes in adolescent behavior are often attributed to cliques. [ 6 ]