Class 6: Trauma & Coping in Late Childhood
 
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Lesson
I hope to introduce play therapy on Thursday. It would probably be helpful to especially read the chapter in regard to changes in middle childhood (cognitive, language, social) that may influence play and using play in therapy.
Attachment
How does attachment behavior become extended to peers?
Social Development
Describe social perspective taking and can therapists help promote it?
Language
Can therapists communicate to school-age children as they can to adults? How so and how not?
Play
What can play reveal about a child’s anxieties and worries?
Cognitive Development
What are decentration, concrete operations, reversiability?
What changes around age 7?
Self Regulation
What psychological defense mechanisms are active during this period
What helps improve self control
Moral Development
How is moral reasoning different than preschool-age moral reasoning but not quite at adult levels?
How do cognitive changes reflect moral reasoning changes?
Sense of Self
How does self esteem (self-concept) change in middle childhood?