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Psych Ideas — Understanding Learning Disorders Part 2:...

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Making psychological theory clear. Understanding Learning Disorders Part 2: Psychometric Constructs. In my last entry. I described Bruce Pennington’s (2009) framework for understanding cognitive development. In this entry I’ll focus on the psychometric, or testing related, constructs that neuropsychologists rely on when diagnosing learning disorders. 1) General intelligence can best be understood as a composite of other kinds of intelligence. There are four categories of intelligence that psychometrician...

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Psych Ideas — Piaget Part I - Play, Assimilation, and...

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Making psychological theory clear. Piaget Part I - Play, Assimilation, and Accommodation - some ideas about development and learning. The balancing act of development. Each talk about play. What is out of balance? Assimilation outweighing Accommodation in early development. For Piaget the question of balance in psychological development has to do with how much of the world children understand through assimilation and how much they understand through accommodation. You could think of assimilation as colle...

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Psych Ideas — Playing with Winnicott - Part 1

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Making psychological theory clear. Playing with Winnicott - Part 1. In his chapter “Playing: a theoretical statement” D.W. Winnicott (1971) wrote about the nature of playing and its relationship to psychological well-being and development. I find his ideas useful for thinking about child and adult psychological needs. If these ideas catch your interest I recommend giving his book, Playing and Reality a read. It is pretty wonderful. How do we know when playing is happening? Where does play happen? Accordi...

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Psych Ideas — The Parent-Infant relationship according to...

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Making psychological theory clear. The Parent-Infant relationship according to Winnicott - Part 2. In my previous post. I described Winnicott’s ideas about what a good enough infant-parent relationship lets happen in later development. Here I’ll flesh out a few more of his ideas about what infancy is and what the developmental tasks of infancy are. What stage of life is infancy? What are the developmental tasks of infancy? What helps an infant to do all of this developing? What is going on in the infant?

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Psych Ideas — Debold on Playing: The high stakes of play for...

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Making psychological theory clear. Debold on Playing: The high stakes of play for girls growing up in a sexist culture. After thinking about the very male and somewhat dated flavor of the entries on play that I wrote several months ago ( Vygotsky. Each being dead white men) I sought out feminist contributions to play theory to write about. During this search I came across a wonderful article,. The Body at Play. Women Girls and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance,. Debold raises an important question: giv...

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Psych Ideas — The Parent-Infant Relationship according to...

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Making psychological theory clear. The Parent-Infant Relationship according to Winnicott - Part 3. In my last 2 posts I discussed Winnicott’s ideas about how the the infant-parent relationship allows for the development of basic confidence. And his definition of infancy and the developmental tasks of that stage of life. Here I’ll talk a little more about his ideas about parental care and an infant’s dependence. What makes for good care? A) first comes holding. Both the living together stage and the holdi...

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Psych Ideas — Understanding Learning Disorders Part 3: Cognitive...

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Making psychological theory clear. Understanding Learning Disorders Part 3: Cognitive Neuroscience Constructs. In my previous post. I discussed the psychometric constructs relevant to understanding learning disorders. While psychometric constructs developed out of efforts to understand and predict work and school performance, Cognitive neuroscience developed along different lines. Structural language includes the sounds in a language, the grammar in a language and the vocabulary of a language. Functi...

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Psych Ideas — Supporting parents of children with disabilities:...

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Making psychological theory clear. Supporting parents of children with disabilities: remembering the importance of joy. In preparing for an upcoming CEU class I’ll be teaching on working with families impacted by disability. I came across a wonderful article from the Journal of Advanced Nursing. The article,. Between joy and sorrow: being a parent of a child with developmental disability. Background: what’s missing in clinical understandings of family life with a disability? I knew her condition was seri...

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Psych Ideas — The Parent-Infant relationship according to...

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Making psychological theory clear. The Parent-Infant relationship according to Winnicott - Part 1. Returning for a while to Winnicott, I’d like to unpack one of his denser articles, a piece he published in 1960 called. The Theory of the parent-infant relationship. I find his ideas really useful, but I also think that they reflect some of the limits of the thinking of his time. If something I’ve written here catches your interest, I’d recommend giving the original article a read. In The Theory of the Infa...