Chapter 10
Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood
Focus: Marian Anderson, Operatic Trailblazer
The Developing Self
•	Representational Systems: A Neo-Piagetian View

•	Self-esteem

•	Emotional Growth
The Child in the Family
•	Family Atmosphere
•	Parenting Issues: Coregulation and Discipline

•	Effects of Parents’ Work

•	Poverty and Parenting
•	 Checkpoint: Can you…
•	Identify ways in which parents’ work can affect children?

•	Discuss effects of poverty on raising children?
The Child in the Family
•	Family Structure
•	Adoptive Families
•	When Parents Divorce
•	Living in a One-Parent Family
•	Living in a Stepfamily
•	Living with Gay or Lesbian Parents
Families with Children Younger than 18, 1970 and 2000
The Child in the Family

	
	Sibling Relationships: How do siblings influence and get along with one another?

The Child in the Peer Group
•	Positive and Negative Influences of Peer Relations

•	Popularity

•	Friendship
Selman’s Stages of Friendship
The Child in the Peer Group
•	Aggression and Bullying
•	Aggression and Social Information Processing

•	Does Televised Violence Lead to Aggression?

•	Bullies and Victims
What’s Your View?

•	What can and should be done about children’s exposure to violent television programs?
Mental Health
•	Common Emotional Disorders

•	Disruptive Behavior Disorders

•	Social Phobia and Other Anxiety Disorders

•	Childhood Depression
Mental Health
•	Treatment Techniques
•	individual psychotherapy
•	family therapy
•	behavior therapy
•	play therapy
•	art therapy
•	drug therapy
Mental Health
•	Stress and Resilience: Protective Factors

•	Stresses of Modern Life

•	Coping with Stress: The Resilient Child

Characteristics of Resilient Children and Adolescents
Digging Deeper
Should Parents Stay Together for the Sake of the Children?
Window on the World

Popularity: A Cross-Cultural View