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Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker?s Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker?s Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy

Author(s): Lynne Goeldner

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2014

Pages: 78

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2014

Pages: 80

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Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker's Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy is a valuable theoretically-based tool to enhance children’s development, especially during pregnancy.

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? provides a solid framework of theory and research and simply lays out significant elements of child development along with enhancement strategies which are theoretically framed and supported by a wealth of research.

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker's Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy by Lynne Goeldner:

  • Addresses the first two years of life. The book chapters are organized birth to 4 months, 4–8 months, 8–12 months, 12–18 months, and 18–24 months.
  • Utilizes psychoanalytic theorist Erik Erikson’s “stages” of development through childhood.
  • Provides the stages, domains, and controversies of child development to serve as the construct for information that has the potential to make a significant difference in the life of children. 
  • Includes general, widely accepted information about development as well as strategies and suggestions for the enhancement of development.
Overview/Introduction
Development Is Defined
The Stages of Development
The Domains of Development
Developmental Controversies

1 Birth to Four Months
The Physical or Biological Domain
Sleep Patterns during Infancy
Nutrition
Immunizations
Reflexes
Gross and Fine Motor Skills
Sensation and Perception
Vision
Hearing
Touch
Smell
Taste
Perception
The Cognitive Domain
The Sensorimotor Stage
Attention
Memory
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain
Emotions
Communicating Through Cries
Smiles
Attachment
Temperament
Summary of Birth to Four Months

2 Four to Eight Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain
Summary of Four- to Eight-Month Development

3 Eight to Twelve Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
The Socio-Emotional Domain

4 Twelve to Eighteen Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain

5 Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain
Child Care

References
Lynne Goeldner
Dr. Lynne Goeldner is Professor of Psychology, and she has been at Concordia University Wisconsin since 1994. Earning an undergraduate degree at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI), Dr. Goeldner majored in Religious Studies and minored in Education. She holds a lifetime teaching certificate, grades 1–8, for the State of Wisconsin. During her undergraduate years, she studied for a semester in Eningen, Germany.

Dr. Goeldner attended Northern Arizona University to acquire her Master’s Degree in Education, with a specialization in counseling. She held a Professional School Counselor’s license after completing internships in an elementary school and in family counseling in Arizona.

A Ph.D. was earned by Dr. Goeldner at UW-Milwaukee. The doctorate degree is in Urban Studies, with a specialization in Educational Psychology. Dr. Goeldner has taught not only Educational Psychology at Concordia, but also Child Development, Life-Span Development, Adolescent and Adult Development, Abnormal Psychology, General Psychology, Social Psychology, Theories of Learning, Principles of Counseling, and Interpersonal Communication. Dr. Goeldner wrote and instructed the courses “The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud” and “Maria Montessori and Reggio Emilia.” She led groups of students to Austria and Italy, respectively, as culminating experiences of these courses. In 2007, Dr. Goeldner was an exchange/guest professor of the University of Upper Austria at Linz and Steyr where she taught classes of business students and social workers in the area of multicultural diversity and communication.

Dr. Goeldner is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) as well as past member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). She has served Concordia as Department Head, Social Science Chair, and member of the Faculty Senate, Faculty Development Committee, and Institutional Review Board. She has written a book on affective teaching and has engaged in research on the effects of cancer on relationships.

In her spare time, Dr. Goeldner spends time with her four children and their families, travels (and shops!), and creates antique reproduction samplers.

Groundbreaking Child Development 
Publication Now Available!

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker's Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy is a valuable theoretically-based tool to enhance children’s development, especially during pregnancy.

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? provides a solid framework of theory and research and simply lays out significant elements of child development along with enhancement strategies which are theoretically framed and supported by a wealth of research.

Where Was This Book When I Became a Parent? A Caretaker's Condensed and Straight-Forward Guide to Enhancing Development Through Infancy by Lynne Goeldner:

  • Addresses the first two years of life. The book chapters are organized birth to 4 months, 4–8 months, 8–12 months, 12–18 months, and 18–24 months.
  • Utilizes psychoanalytic theorist Erik Erikson’s “stages” of development through childhood.
  • Provides the stages, domains, and controversies of child development to serve as the construct for information that has the potential to make a significant difference in the life of children. 
  • Includes general, widely accepted information about development as well as strategies and suggestions for the enhancement of development.

Overview/Introduction
Development Is Defined
The Stages of Development
The Domains of Development
Developmental Controversies

1 Birth to Four Months
The Physical or Biological Domain
Sleep Patterns during Infancy
Nutrition
Immunizations
Reflexes
Gross and Fine Motor Skills
Sensation and Perception
Vision
Hearing
Touch
Smell
Taste
Perception
The Cognitive Domain
The Sensorimotor Stage
Attention
Memory
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain
Emotions
Communicating Through Cries
Smiles
Attachment
Temperament
Summary of Birth to Four Months

2 Four to Eight Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain
Summary of Four- to Eight-Month Development

3 Eight to Twelve Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
The Socio-Emotional Domain

4 Twelve to Eighteen Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain

5 Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months
The Physical Domain
The Cognitive Domain
Language Development
The Socio-Emotional Domain
Child Care

References

Lynne Goeldner
Lynne Goeldner
Dr. Lynne Goeldner is Professor of Psychology, and she has been at Concordia University Wisconsin since 1994. Earning an undergraduate degree at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI), Dr. Goeldner majored in Religious Studies and minored in Education. She holds a lifetime teaching certificate, grades 1–8, for the State of Wisconsin. During her undergraduate years, she studied for a semester in Eningen, Germany.

Dr. Goeldner attended Northern Arizona University to acquire her Master’s Degree in Education, with a specialization in counseling. She held a Professional School Counselor’s license after completing internships in an elementary school and in family counseling in Arizona.

A Ph.D. was earned by Dr. Goeldner at UW-Milwaukee. The doctorate degree is in Urban Studies, with a specialization in Educational Psychology. Dr. Goeldner has taught not only Educational Psychology at Concordia, but also Child Development, Life-Span Development, Adolescent and Adult Development, Abnormal Psychology, General Psychology, Social Psychology, Theories of Learning, Principles of Counseling, and Interpersonal Communication. Dr. Goeldner wrote and instructed the courses “The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud” and “Maria Montessori and Reggio Emilia.” She led groups of students to Austria and Italy, respectively, as culminating experiences of these courses. In 2007, Dr. Goeldner was an exchange/guest professor of the University of Upper Austria at Linz and Steyr where she taught classes of business students and social workers in the area of multicultural diversity and communication.

Dr. Goeldner is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) as well as past member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). She has served Concordia as Department Head, Social Science Chair, and member of the Faculty Senate, Faculty Development Committee, and Institutional Review Board. She has written a book on affective teaching and has engaged in research on the effects of cancer on relationships.

In her spare time, Dr. Goeldner spends time with her four children and their families, travels (and shops!), and creates antique reproduction samplers.