Bright Future – Social & Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Key Areas
(Key areas in italics are especially important for children with special health care needs.) |
| Self | self-esteem
• Experiences of success • Reasonable risk-taking behavior • Resilience and ability to handle failure • Supportive family and peer relationships self-image • Body image, celebrating different body images • Prepubertal changes; initiating discussion about sexuality and reproduction; prepubertal changes related to physical care issues |
| Family | What matters at home
• Expectation and limit setting • Family times together • Communication • Family responsibilities • Family transitions • Sibling relationships • Caregiver relationships |
| Friends | Friendships
• Making friends, friendships with peers with and without special health care needs • Family support of friendships, family support to have typical friendship activities, as appropriate |
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Key Areas
(Key areas in italics are especially important for children with special health care needs.) |
| school | school
• Expectation for school performance; school performance developed and defined in Individualized Education Program (IEP) or Section 504 Plan • Homework • Child-teacher conflicts, building relationships with teachers • Parent-teacher communication • Ability of schools to address the needs of children from diverse backgrounds • Awareness of aggression, bullying, and being bullied • Absenteeism |
| Community | Community strengths
• Community organizations • Religious groups • Cultural groups High-risk behaviors and environments • Substance use • Unsafe friendships • Unsafe community environments • Particular awareness of risk-taking behaviors and unsafe environments because children may be easily abused or bullied |