CF 550 DL
Development I: Infancy and Toddlerhood
Spring, 2008
Anne R. Gearity, PhD
2904 Humboldt Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55408
612/824-4142 (home); 612/825-7200 (office)
geari002@umn.edu
Course Description
This course is the first semester of the development
sequence that traces normative developmental processes over the life course.
In this course, the interactive nature of early development will be examined,
beginning with the adult developmental experience of pregnancy and entering
into parenthood, and then moving towards understanding of the increasingly
competent and engaging child as part of this dyadic partnership.
The interface between physical growth, relational experience, environmental
influences and emotional/cognitive discovery will be emphasized.
Remembering D.W. Winnicott’s admonition (1942):”There
is no such thing as a baby . . . meaning that if you set out to describe
a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone. A baby
cannot exist alone, but is essentially a part of a relationship,” this
course will also pay attention to the emerging relational dynamics that
facilitate and support optimal early development, and become foundational
to later relational experiences. The course will also address how
infants become increasingly competent within their environments, able to
regulate emotions, construct interpretive awareness of what others do –
and they understand (beginning cognition) and enjoy what researchers now
call effortful control.
I have borrowed extensively from Ericka Schmidt’s
syllabus and appreciate her developmental clarity.
Goals
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Acquire understanding of the concepts of development
and developmental processes;
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Acquire descriptive knowledge of the sequential unfolding
of growth and development;
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Acquire an appreciation for the interface between
physical growth and emotional development;
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Become knowledgeable about the major psychodynamic
theories of early development;
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Be able to critically read popular literature and
professional research regarding early development and family life.
Required Texts
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Galatzer-Levy, R. & Cohler, B. (1993). The
essential other. NY: Basic Books.
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Shonkoff, J. & Phillips, D. (Eds.) (2000).
From
neurons to neighborhoods the science of early child development.
Washington DC: National Academy Press.
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Stern, D. (1985). The interpersonal world
of the infant. NY: Basic Books.
Course Outline
This distance cohort class will meet for two hours
on January 13th and March 2nd. Weekly hourly meetings will be online,
on Tuesdays, January 22, 29; February 5, 19, 26; March 11, 18, 25 April
1, 8. PLEASE NOTE: I will not be available on February 12th; we will
negotiate another time. I will also be trading dates for the March 4th
class and will announce the switch as soon as possible.
Since we are meeting weekly, some of the readings
will be assigned, and shared within our discussions.
January 13th (in Chicago) Introduction: Nature
and Nurture
Shonkoff, J. & Phillips, D. (Eds.) (2000).
Executive summary; Introduction; Rethinking nature and nurture; Challenge
of studying culture. In From neurons to neighborhoods the science
of early child development (pp. 1-70). Washington DC: National
Academy Press.
Sameroff, A. & Fiese, B. (2000). Models
of development and developmental risk. In C. Zeanah (Ed.)
Handbook
of infant mental health (pp. 3-19). NY: Guilford Press.
Winnicott, D. (1964/1987). What do we mean
by a normal child? In D. Winnicott, The child, the family,
and the outside world (pp. 124-130). Reading MA: Addison-Wesley.
January 22nd Parenthood
Benedek, T. (1959). Parenthood as a developmental
phase. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 7:
389-417. PEP Archive
Bornstein, M. (2000). Parenting infants.
In J. Osofsky & H. Fitzgerald (Eds.). WAIMH handbook of infant mental
health: Vol. 3, Parenting and child care (pp. 213-239).
Shonkoff, J. & Phillips, D. (Eds.) (2000).
Nurturing relationships. In From neurons to neighborhoods the
science of early child development (pp. 225-266). Washington
DC: National Academy Press.
January 29th Becoming a Baby
Shonkoff, J. & Phillips, D. (Eds.) (2000).
The developing brain (pp. 182-217). Acquiring self regulation (pp.
93-123). In From neurons to neighborhoods the science of early
child development. Washington DC: National Academy Press.
Emde, (1988) Development terminable and interminable:
Innate and motivational factors from infancy. International Journal
of Psychoanalysis, 69, 23-42. PEP Archive
Sroufe, L., Egeland, B., Carlson, E. & Collins,
W. (2005). Adaptation
in infancy. In The development of the person (pp. 87-105).
NY: Guilford Press.
February 5th-19th Attachment
Cassidy, J. (1999). The
nature of the child’s ties. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.)
Handbook
of attachment (pp. 3-20). NY: Guilford Press.
Fonagy, P. (2001) Summaries:
What do psychoanalytic theories and attachment tehory have in common?
In Attachment theory and psychoanalysis (pp. 157-184). NY:
Other Press.
Karen, R. (Feb, 1990). Becoming
attached. The Atlantic Monthly (pp. 35-70).
Main (2000), The organized categories of infant,
child and adult attachment: Flexible vs. inflexible attention under attachment-related
stress. Journal of American Psychoanalytical Association, 48:4,
1055-1096. PEP Archive
Hesse and Main (2000). Disorganized infant, child
and adult attachment: Collapse in behavioral and attentional strategies.
Journal of American Psychoanalytical Association, 48: 4, 1097-1127.
PEP Archive
February 26th: Attachment and companionship:
Two emotion systems
Trevarthen, C. (2005) First
things first: Infants make good use of the sympathetic rhythm of imitation,
without reason or language. Journal of Child Psychotherapy,
31:1, 91-113
Panksepp, J (2001), The long term psychobiological
consequences of infant emotions: prescriptions for the 21st century.
Infant
Mental Health Journal, 22, (1-2), 132--173.
March 2nd (in Chicago): Self in Infancy
Stern, D. (1985). Part II The four senses
of self (Sense of an emergent self; Sense of a core self I and II; Sense
of a subjective self I and II. In The interpersonal world of the
infant (pp. 37-161). NY: Basic Books.
March 4th and 11th: Mutual Regulation/ Self
Regulation of Emotions
Schore, A. (2000) Attachment
and regulation of the right brain. Attachment and Human Development,
2 (1), 23-47
Beebe, B. and Lachmann, F. (1994). Representation
and internalization in infancy: three principles of salience. Psychoanalytic
Psychology, 11 (2) 127-165. PEP Archive
March 25th and April 1st: Toddlers, Self-Awareness
and Morality
Galatzer-Levy, R. & Cohler, B. (1993).
Toddlerhood: The self and morality. In R. Galatzer-Levy & B.
Cohler, The essential other (pp. 64-85). NY: Basic Books.
Emde, R., Johnson, W. & Easterbrooks, A. (1987).
The do’s and don’ts of early moral development: Psychoanalytic tradition
and current research. In J. Kagan & M. Lamb (Eds.) The emergence
of morality in young children (pp. 245-276). Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
Lewis, M. (1992). Shame,
the exposed self. Zero to Three, 13: 6-10.
Lieberman, A. (1991). Attachment
and exploration: The toddler’s dilemma. Zero to Three, 12:
6-11.
Sroufe, L., Egeland, B., Carlson, E. & Collins,
W. (2005). Adaptation
in the toddler period: Guided self-regulation. In The development
of the person (pp. 106-120). NY: Guilford Press.
April 8, 2008: Language and Play
Galatzer-Levy, R. & Cohler, B. (1993).
The toddler years: Language, play, sex, anality. In R. Galatzer-Levy
& B. Cohler, The essential other (pp. 86-114). NY: Basic
Books.
Katan, A. (1961). Some thoughts about the
role of verbalization in early childhood. Psychoanalytic Study
of the Child 16: 184-188. PEP Archive
Shonkoff, J. & Phillips, D. (Eds.) (2000).
Communicating and learning (pp. 124-162). In From neurons to neighborhoods
the science of early child development. Washington DC: National
Academy Press.
Slade, A. (1994). Making
meaning and making believe: Their role in the clinical process.
In A. Slade & D. Wolf, Children at play: Clinical and developmental
approaches to meaning and representation (pp. 81-107). NY: Oxford
University Press.
Stern, D. (1985). The sense of a verbal self.
In D. Stern, The interpersonal world of the infant, (pp. 162-182).
NY: Basic Books.
Addenda:
Nahum,
J 2000 Overview of Louis Sanders
Trevarthen,
C 2005 Intrinsic motives for companionship
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