Emotional Development Database Report: Child Development Analysis

This report examines the emotional development of children, focusing on two key parameters: emotional expressiveness and emotional understanding. It details developmental milestones across five age groups: birth to 6 months, 7 to 12 months, 1 to 2 years, 3 to 6 years, and 7 to 11 years, outlining the progression of emotional behaviors such as smiling, fear, language use, self-regulation, and empathy. The report also explores the development of attachment between parents and infants, describing four distinct phases: pre-attachment, attachment in the making, clear-cut attachment, and the formation of a reciprocal relationship. These phases are characterized by specific behaviors and emotional responses, reflecting the evolving bond between caregivers and children. The report references key sources like Berk (2013), Bowlby & Ainsworth (2013), and others to support its findings.

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Emotional development of the child is measured in two parameters which are based
on emotional expressiveness and emotional understanding. The progress of the child in this
area measured on the basis of milestones and there are 5 milestones in total. Milestones are
divided according to the age and they are divided as from birth to 6 months, 7 to 12 months, 1
to 2 years, 3 to 6 years, and 7 to 11 years (Berk, 2013). Emotional expressiveness and
emotional understanding in those groups is summarized in the below sections.
Birth to 6 months: In this stage the child started to laugh and smile as well as increment of
happiness can be seen in their expression. They also able to start understanding the care
givers emotional tone and they detect it by matching their expression.
7 to 12 months: in this stage they started to express fear and anger in increasing frequency.
They can also regulate their emotion by stimulation. In addition, they started to detect the
emotional signal among the others (Nilsen, 2013).
1 to 2 years: In this stage they started to use language as well as emotional self- regulation.
Additionally, their emotions become self- conscious with respect to adult supervision and
encouragement. In this developmental stage, they started to comprehend that their emotional
state might be different than the others. Also, started to show empathy (Emde, 2014).
3 to 6 years: Understanding of language improves and along with that regulation of emotion
through active strategies. In this stage, their self- conscious emotion depends on the self-
evolution. Empathy started to become more reflective in addition with improved language.
Complexity and accuracy of their behavioural signs improves (Widen, 2013).
7 to 11 years: Conscious use strategies for the regulation of emotion as a coping mechanism
of emotion centred and problem centred approach. They become aware of the fact that
person’s expression might be the true reflection of the feelings. In addition, they started to
reconcile conflicting cue in respect to emotional expression (Berk, 2013).

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An attachment develops among the parents and infants through the cognitive and
emotional bond (Holmes, 2014). This attachment between the parents and infants develops
through four steps. This steps are briefly described below:
1. Pre- attachment phase: This phase lasted for 6 months from the birth. They started to build
signals and cues in this stage. However, attachments have not developed just yet and they
don’t get agitated if they are left alone with unfamiliar adult (Berk, 2013).
2. ‘Attachment in the making’ phase: This is generally develops between 6 weeks to 6 -8
months. In this stage, the toddler responds better to a familiar care giver instead of the
unfamiliar one (Bowlby & Ainsworth, 2013).
3. ‘Clear- cut’ attachment phase: This attachment phase develops from the age up to 2 years.
Clear cut attachment can be observed during this phase. Separation anxiety can be seen
among the infants and they become upset without their familiar care giver (Bowlby &
Ainsworth, 2013).
4. Formation of reciprocal relationship: The formation of this stage develops along the way
from 2 years and onwards. Due to development in language and emotional behaviour,
reciprocity grows between them and they started to understand the behaviour of their parents.
As a result, protest due to the separation started to decrease (Berk, 2013).

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References:
Berk, L. E. (2013). chap. 10 Child Development (9th Ed.). pp 419-429, USA: Pearson
Education, Boston.
Bowlby, J., & Ainsworth, M. (2013). The origins of attachment theory. Attachment Theory:
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Emde, R. N. (2014). Levels of meaning for infant emotions: A biosocial view.
In Development of cognition, affect, and social relations (pp. 11-48). Psychology
Press.
Holmes, J. (2014). John Bowlby and attachment theory. Routledge.
Nilsen, B. A. (2013). Week by week: Plans for documenting children's development. Cengage
Learning.
Widen, S. C. (2013). Children’s interpretation of facial expressions: The long path from
valence-based to specific discrete categories. Emotion Review, 5(1), 72-77.