Here, there are all the summaries of the chapters of the book Psychological Communication, by H. van der Molen, G. Lang, P. Trower & R. Look. It's the 2nd edition, done in 2020.

Hope you enjoy!

“…each observer gains a partial superiority of insights from the peculiar position in which he stands.” (William James, 1899)

Chapter 1: Intro

1.1 Purpose and Structure

• Part I: processes involved in counselling
  • Chapter 2&5: theory underlying counselling, nature of effective helping-skills based on theories
  • Chapter 2: philosophy for working with people on their personal problems
  • Chapter 3: client-centred therapy
• Part II: detailed description of concrete skills needed to help a person
  
  • Chapter 6: nature and function of the basic skills needed to conduct a counselling interview
  • Chapter 7: more complect skills

This is the Chapter 12 of the book How Children Develop (Robert Siegler, 1st Edition). Which is content for the exam of the Theory component of Module 2 (Social Behaviour) of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands.

Ch. 12: Influence of family on development children

Family structures:

Number of relationships and members of households

• Increase number of single parents --> tendency to be found below the poverty line
• Older parents --> increased financial resources
• Grandparents present household --> negative effects on development
• Decreased family size --> increase birth control, women’s work ambitions, and divorce
• Teenager pregnancies --> weak parenting skills -->
  
  • Disorganized attachment style
  • Weak impulse control
  • Delay cognitive development
  • Increased chance of delinquent behaviour and sexual behaviour

Parents same sex:

Children don’t differ

This is the Chapter 13 of the book How Children Develop (Robert Siegler, 1st Edition). Which is content for the exam of the Theory component of Module 2 (Social Behaviour) of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands.

Ch. 13: Peers & Child Development

Importance of playing:

• Play: voluntary activity, with the motivation of own pleasure. It contributes to the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development

Types of play:

Non-social types of play:

• Unoccupied play: looking objects from environment, the attention is not held on anything specifically
• Onlooker play: watching other kids playing
• Solitary play: playing by yourself, not paying attention to others

Social types of play:

• Parallel play: when kids play next to each other, but not together
• Associative play: kids playing together, doing same

This is the Chapter 9 of the book Introduction to Kassin, S., Fein, S., Markus, H.R. (2021) Social Psychology, International Edition (11th edition). Which is content for the exam of the Theory component of Module 2 (Social Behaviour) of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands.

Ch.9: Attraction & close relationships

Need to belong:

• Social Anxiety Disorder: intense discomfort when social situations are observed
  • Public-speaking Anxiety: stage of fright when public speaking

Affiliation:

• Need for affiliation: desire to establish and maintain rewarding relationships. When do we need affiliation?
  • Stress --> increase need for affiliation, specially if others face same threat
    • Cognitive clarity about threat danger
    • Unity
  • Feeling lonely
  • Lack of power

Loneliness:

Deprivation feeling about existing social