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The Developing Person
Through the Life Span
Eighth Edition
Kathleen Stassen Berger
Part IV Chapter Thirteen
Middle Childhood: Psychosocial Development
The Nature of the Child
Families and Children
The Peer Group
Children’s Moral Values
The Nature of the Child
• Industry and Inferiority
– Erikson’s Insights
– Freud on Latency
• Self-Concept
– The Me-Self
– Complications of Unrealistic Self-Esteem
– Culture and Self-Esteem
The Nature of the Child
• Resilience and Stress
– Cumulative Stress
– Social Support and Religious Faith
Families and Children
• Shared and Nonshared Environments
• A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: “I Always
Dressed One in Blue Stuff…”
• Family Function and Family Structure
– Diversity of Structures
– Connecting Structure and Function
• Family Trouble
The Peer Group
• The Culture of Children
– Friendship and Social Acceptance
– Popular and Unpopular Children
– Social Awareness
• Bullies and Victims
– Causes and Consequences of Bullying
– Can Bullying Be Stopped?
Children’s Moral Values
• Moral Reasoning
– Kohlberg’s Levels of Moral Thought
– Criticisms of Kohlberg
• What Children Value
• THINKING CRITICALLY: Evidence
for Morality