This perceptive work examines the relationship between child development and social welfare, exploring the interactions between children's moral and intellectual development, their relationships with parents and peers, and the socioeconomic background in which they live. Drawing on many areas of developmental psychology, the author presents an integrated approach which stresses that a child's self-perception, as well as his or her perception of the nature of parenthood and of society, form a basis for marality and achievement in adolescence and early adulthood. Siegal considers the implications of shifting patterns of parenthood in recent years--the working mother, the increasingly mobile family--and he weighs the potential influence of an interventionist developmental psychology on social welfare policy.
- ISBN10 0198521200
- ISBN13 9780198521204
- Publish Date 1 December 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English