SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Stampa
Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic year
2021/2022
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-PSI/04 (PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Course
PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (04/10/2021 - 21/12/2021)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
English
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
CARONE NICOLA (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of developmental psychology
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the students will be able to:
▪ know the main stages and characteristics of socio-emotional development throughout the life cycle from the attachment perspective;
▪ know the factors and the mechanisms influencing the socio-emotional development within the primary affective relationships and, to a wider extent, the entire family system, with a specific focus on parents’ attachment states of mind, siblings relationships, and children’s individual characteristics;
▪ know evidence-based interventions to support child development and positive parenting;
▪ discuss the most recent evidence on the socio-emotional adjustment of children raised in same-sex parent families.
Course contents
The course analyzes the developmental pathways of socio-emotional competencies throughout the life cycle from the attachment perspective. Great emphasis is placed on the formation and the transmission of attachment relationships across generations and different developmental stages (i.e., childhood, adolescence and adulthood). The monographic course focuses on parenting and child socio-emotional adjustment in same-sex parent families (i.e., adoptive gay and lesbian parent families, gay father families formed through surrogacy, lesbian mother families formed through donor conception).
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises in small groups.
Reccomended or required readings
TEXT/CHAPTERS FOR THE BASIC COURSE:
• Cassidy, J., & Shaver, P. R. (2016) (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications, 3rd edition. New York: Guilford Press. CHAPTERS 1, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27.
• Juffer, F., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2018). Video-fedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline. Development and meta-analytic evidence for its effectiveness. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Handbook of attachment-based interventions (pp. 1–26). New York: Guilford.
• Moretti, M. M., Pasalich, D. S., & O’Donnell, K. A. (2018). Connect: An attachment‑based program for parents of teens. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Handbook of attachment-based interventions (pp. 375–400). New York: Guilford.

CHAPTERS FOR THE MONOGRAPHIC COURSE “SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SAME-SEX PARENT FAMILIES”:
• Berkowitz, D. (2020). Gay men and surrogacy. In A. E. Goldberg & K. R. Allen (Eds.), LGBTQ-Parent Families. Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice (pp. 143–160). New York: Springer.
• Bos, H. M. W., & Gartrell, N. K. (2020). Lesbian-mother families formed through donor insemination. In A. E. Goldberg & K. R. Allen (Eds.), LGBTQ-Parent Families. Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice (pp. 25–44). New York: Springer.
Assessment methods
Written and oral exams. Specifically, the exam test will consist of 21 multiple choice questions and 3 open questions related to the course program, including the monographic course. Students who achieve a score greater than or equal to 18/30 can optionally decide to improve (or confirm) their grade taking an oral exam. The mark range achievable for the oral exam is 0–4 points.

For those who request to take the exam remotely, the test will be exclusively oral.
Further information
The slides and materials used during the course will be uploaded on the KIRO platform. At the beginning of the course, the volumes to be purchased and those made available by the teacher will be communicated.
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