Understanding Emotional Development provides an insightful and comprehensive account of the development and impact of our emotions through infancy, childhood and adolescence. The book covers a number of key topics: * The nature and diversity of emotion and its role in our lives * Differences between basic emotions, which we are all born with, and secondary social emotions which develop during early social interactions * The development of secondary social emotions; and the role of attachmentand other factors in this process which determine a childs' emotional history and consequental...

Understanding Emotional Development provides an insightful and comprehensive account of the development and impact of our emotions through infancy, childhood and adolescence. The book covers a number of key topics: * The nature and diversity of emotion and its role in our lives * Differences between basic emotions, which we are all born with, and secondary social emotions which develop during early social interactions * The development of secondary social emotions; and the role of attachmentand other factors in this process which determine a childs' emotional history and consequental...

The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of great social and political change within Ireland, as the Protestant Ascendancy gained control of the country, aided by the English government and aristocracy, with whom the ruling class in Ireland mixed through marriage and travel. The resulting Anglo-Irish elite, with its distinct transnational identity, differed markedly from the preceding Irish elite, but, at the same time, because of its Irish dimension, was very different also from the contemporary English and Scottish upper classes. Women played key roles in this...