009 - Temperament - Part 2 - Gray, Rothbart, Kagan, Eisenberg, Schermerhorn and Bates
12/31/24 • 22 min
In episode 8, I started discussing temperament theory with an introduction to Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess. They first developed a temperamental formulation by following 141 children longitudinally and proposed 9 dimensions of temperament that can be reduced to three basic categories: Easy, Difficult, or Slow-to-warm-up temperament. There were many researchers to follow and today I am going to compare and contrast a number of them, including Jerome Kagan, Jeffery Allan Gray, Mary Rothbart, and then highlight researchers who focussed extra attention on parenting and social development’s interactions with temperament - Nancy Eisenberg, Alice Schermerhorn and John Bates.
Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com
Feedback can be emailed to [email protected] OR submitted via a form at https://psydactic.com.
This is not medical advice. Please see a licensed physician for any personal questions regarding your own or your child's health.
In episode 8, I started discussing temperament theory with an introduction to Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess. They first developed a temperamental formulation by following 141 children longitudinally and proposed 9 dimensions of temperament that can be reduced to three basic categories: Easy, Difficult, or Slow-to-warm-up temperament. There were many researchers to follow and today I am going to compare and contrast a number of them, including Jerome Kagan, Jeffery Allan Gray, Mary Rothbart, and then highlight researchers who focussed extra attention on parenting and social development’s interactions with temperament - Nancy Eisenberg, Alice Schermerhorn and John Bates.
Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com
Feedback can be emailed to [email protected] OR submitted via a form at https://psydactic.com.
This is not medical advice. Please see a licensed physician for any personal questions regarding your own or your child's health.
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008 - Temperament - Part 1 - Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess
While it may seem quaint today, the radical contribution that Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess made to child development was to look at children as unique individuals with very different innate approaches to the world that were present at birth. While processes like attachment and their psychosocial context help to determine a child’s outcome, what Thomas and Chess emphasized was a child’s temperament, their own style of thinking and of interacting with the world.
Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com
Feedback can be emailed to [email protected] OR submitted via a form at https://psydactic.com.
This is not medical advice. Please see a licensed physician for any personal questions regarding your own or your child's health.
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I have so far discussed some of the early psychosexual, psychosocial and cognitive approaches to child development, but I would be remiss if I did not also mention a group of theorists who attempted to study humanity by completely ignoring the fact that they have thoughts and emotions. The behavioralists tried to simplify the study of humans by massively simplifying their assumptions about humans. In fact, they are primarily criticized for vastly oversimplifying humans. For instance, they assumed that behaviors were basically just reactions to the environment without any deeper meaning. These responses are learned based on environmental inputs. Whatever else is happening on the inside is either irrelevant or extraneous. All we can really see are behaviors, so we should only study behavior. This episode focuses on Classical Conditioning.
Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.com
Feedback can be emailed to [email protected] OR submitted via a form at https://psydactic.com.
This is not medical advice. Please see a licensed physician for any personal questions regarding your own or your child's health.
PsyDactic - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Study Edition - 009 - Temperament - Part 2 - Gray, Rothbart, Kagan, Eisenberg, Schermerhorn and Bates
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Temperament - Part 2 -
Gray, Rothbart, Kagan, Eisenberg, Schermerhorn and Bates.
Welcome to PsyDactic - CAPs board study edition. I am your host, Dr. O'Leary, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow in the national capital region. This is a podcast I designed to help myself and other CAPs fellows study for their boards. Anyone interested in human development and mental health will likely also get something o
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