Children'S Friendships - The Beginnings Of Intimacy

• accessible and comprehensive book on friendship, beautifully written by a world authority;
  
• features a foreword by Jerome Bruner, one of the most influential psychologists alive today;
  
• stresses the importance of friendships to young children and considers the implications of friendship for our understanding of children’s development more generally;
  
• draws out the practical implications for parents, teachers and those who care for children;
  
• considers how to help children with friendship difficulties and what to do about 'trouble-making' friendships and bullying;
  
• latest addition to the Understanding Children’s Worlds series.

List of figures.

Acknowledgements.

Friends matter.

Beginnings.

Friends within a social world: the early years.

Differences in children’s friendships: links with social understanding.

With a little help from my friends.

Intrigues, bullying, rejection and loneliness.

Girls, boys and friendship.

Parents and Friends.

Siblings and friends.

Implications.

Appendix: How can parents help children over friendship difficulties?.

Notes.

References.

Name index.

Name Index.