Chapter 1. Introduction: The Importance of Studying Children’s Emotions
Section 1. Key Foundations, Theories and Methodologies
Chapter 2. The Study of Children’s Emotional Development
Chapter 3. Key Methods for Studying Emotional Development
Section 2. Key Emotions and Empirical Findings
Chapter 4. Expressing Feelings: Infants’ Crying, Smiling and Laughing
Chapter 5. Fear and Loathing in Infancy and Childhood
Chapter 6. Worries, Phobias, and Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 7. Anger in Infancy and Childhood
Chapter 8. Difficult Temperament, Angry Aggressiveness and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Chapter 9. Empathy, Callousness, and Conduct Disorder
Chapter 10. Sadness
Chapter 11. Depression in Childhood and Adolescence
Section 3. Key Impacts on Research, Practice and Policy
Chapter 12. Impacts of Research on Children’s Emotions on Practice and Policy
Section 4. Key Emerging Areas
Chapter 13. Emerging Areas of Novel Research on Children’s Emotional Development
Glossary
Biography
Dale F. Hay is Professor Emerita in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. She is a developmental psychologist whose studies of children’s development have been funded by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the Waterloo Foundation in the UK, and the National Science Foundation in the US. She has written an earlier textbook on emotional development, co-authored a book on statistics, and editing a number of books on topics in developmental psychology.
