The emotional development of a child in early childhood is important to study to facilitate and support the development of children. There are various issues especially the boundaries between the subdomains of social and emotional development which need to be addressed by research.

1. Emotional Development
Early Childhood

2. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Refers to children’s emerging capacity
to Experience, regulate and express a
range of emotions.
• Healthy social and emotional
development is rooted in nurturing
and responsive relationships with
family members and other caregivers

5. Emotional Competence
• Awareness of our emotions (self-conscious emotions)
• Discerning and understanding other’s emotions
• Emotion Vocabulary Usage
• Empathy and Sympathy
• Differentiation Between Internal and External Emotional
Expression
• Emotional Regulation

6. Atypical Development
• For most young children, social and emotional development unfolds in predictable
ways.
• This is not the story for all children. at least 10% experience disruptions in their social
and emotional development and consequently, mental health problems.

7. WHAT DO
MENTAL
HEALTH ISSUES
LOOK LIKE IN
CHILDREN?
• Excessive hitting, biting or pushing of
other children.
• Flat effect or very withdrawn behavior.
• Engages in compulsive activities.
• Throws wild, despairing tantrums.
• Displays repeated aggressive or
impulsive behavior.
• Difficulty playing with others.

9. Autism
Children with autism struggle to understand:
How they feel
How others feel
How to interpret visual cues of how others feel

10. WHO PLAYS A ROLE IN SUPPORTING
HEALTHY EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT?
• Nurturing and responsive primary caregivers
• Social and relationship norms of family, community, and
culture
• Values, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes related to child-
rearing
• Nonparental caregivers, family members, professionals
• Health care providers

11. CURRENTTRENDS
• Susan B. Campbell, Susanne A. Denham, Grace Z. Howarth, Stephanie M.
Jones, Jessica Vick Whittaker, Amanda P. Williford, Michael T.
Willoughby, Monica Yudron, Kristen Darling-Churchill, Commentary on
the review of measures of early childhood social and emotional
development: Conceptualization, critique, and recommendations,
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 45, 2016, Pages
19-41, ISSN 0193-3973, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2016.01.008.

12. Halle, T. G., & Darling-Churchill, K. E. (2016).
• Is a scale or instrument assessing commonly recognized aspects social
and emotional development?
• Out of 75 only 6 were suitable for use in childhood field
• Comprehensive coverage of all four sub-domains of social-emotional
development is also lacking
• Time sensitivity of development not considered in measures
• No operational distinction between the domains

13. CONTINUED
Measures that address diversity
• 29 out of 75 available in a language other
than English
Ease of administration
• 29 required trainers
Best coverage of the 0-5 age range
• 3 out of 6 best ( 13 as a whole)

14. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
OF SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER
Need for
• the field to come to agreement on sound conceptual and
methodological approaches to measuring young children's
social and emotional development
• Comprehensive coverage of subdomains of social and
emotional development
• Operational distinctions between subdomains

15. Playfulness and Emotional Development
• Children Apperception Test- Pakistani Adaptation used
• Top playful : Introduction of novel characters, element of
aggression, oral gratification themes without deprivation
• Middle: insecurity but no loneliness, mediocre fantasy and
imagination,
• Bottom: inhibited, and withdrawn, no fantasy or imagination
shown

16. CONCLUSION
• Children achieve remarkable advances in social and
emotional development that establishes a foundation for
later competencies
• These achievements can be threatened by exposure to
elevated stresses of many kinds
• Primary caregivers, family, society can help emotional
development
• The field is lacking in comprehensive measures of emotional
development
• Indigenous research is almost non-existent