title: Early emotional development: new modes of thinking for research and intervention.
abstract: Recent thinking about early emotional development in a context useful for pediatricians and other clinicians is reviewed in this chapter. Important functions of emotions are that they help define individuality, motivate approach or withdrawal from a situation, and communicate with caregivers. Emotional development in the first years of life may be seen as a series of predictable stepwise transitions when changes are pervasive and involve major reorientation for children and families.
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Emde
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009042:Motivation; D002666:Psychology, Child