Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, the student should be able to complete the following goals:

1

Assess the role of self in healthy development.

2

Discuss components of self-esteem and its relationship to competence.

3

Examine the behavior pattern exhibited by chronic offenders.

4

Describe the importance of self-control in an emerging sense of self.

5

Discuss the influence of peers during middle childhood, including levels of social complexity.

6

Summarize criteria for school effectiveness and characteristics of positive school environments.

7

Define the characteristics of learning and how they relate to the potential interactions with a school environment.

8

State the extent of television viewing and examine the relationship between cognitive development and television watching.

9

Summarize the effects of viewing violent television programming as well as the effects of prosocial programming.

10

Provide examples of specific childhood stressors; explore how sex, age, and temperament affect childhood stress; and examine developmental effects on stress.

11

Examine the problem of child abuse, including incidence, parental characteristics leading to child abuse, and the special case of sexual abuse.

12

Characterize the resilient child and identify children's ways of coping with stress.

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