Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation

by Simonetta M.G. Adamo, Margaret Rustin

Overview

Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud's observation of his grandson's game with the cotton-reel onwards. This book describes the practice of observing young children in home and nursery settings

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329976
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

M.G. Adamo, Simonetta | Rustin, Margaret

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface — Introduction — Developmental issues — The transition from home to nursery school — The story of child development: a psychoanalytic account — Oedipal anxieties, the birth of a second baby, and the role of the observer — The Young Child Observation seminar: new steps in developing the observer role — Observing in the home — An observation of a young Asian child with feeding difficulties, conceived via assisted reproductive technology — Laurie and his cars: a 3-year-old begins to separate — The day Captain Antonio’s balloon burst — The observed child, the observing child: the complexity of a child’s response to the stillbirth of a sibling — Observing in a nursery — The work of playing: a male observer gets to know a little boy whose father is absent — Seeing beneath the surface: an observer’s encounter with a child’s struggle to find herself at nursery — Thoughts on transitions between cultures: Jonathon moves from home to school and from class to class — “The house is a boat”: a group of children face separation — Applications — Sewing on a shadow: acquiring dimensionality in a participant observation — A participant observation with a boy suffering from a chronic illness — Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends: familiar faces in an uncertain world — Research — Now we are two, going on three: triadic thinking and its link with development in the context of Young Child Observations — Young Child Observation used as a research tool: investigating toddlers’ development in day care nurseries — Young children’s relationships with staff and peers in nursery: observations of two girls aged 29 months and 25 months — Epilogue