Recommended for parents, educators, policymakers of all kinds, and anyone who cares about the intellectual level and emotional health of all people, especially the upcoming generations.
I expected this to be another book on the evolution of intelligence. Instead, it turns out to be about how individuals acquire intelligence, some of the things that can hinder this acquisition, and a few suggestions as to what we can do about it.
The authors list and explain six stages in the early mental development of children, beginning from their very earliest interactions with their parents or other caregivers and how these form the foundations for all later stages of emotional and intellectual development. They talk about how even children who are cognitively impaired in some way (such as autistic children) or who suffer from early neglect or deprivation can, with proper remedial stimulation, be brought to higher levels of mental and emotional functioning than would have been thought previously.
They describe the ill effects of allowing the lack of proper relationships early in childhood to impair a child’s emotional, social, and intellectual development, and the implications of this in the areas of societal violence and mental health. They point out how a developmental approach to mental health can improve outcomes for many people even after they are grown. Apparently, it is not too late for emotional growth to take place in many areas of life even after people are grown if they can find the right kind of interactions.
They also talk about the implications at the level of nations – which forms of government are indicative of what the level of development of most of the people of a country is and the effect in international relations when the majority of adults in a given country are not fully functioning well-developed people. There is also extensive discussion of some of the problems – some old, some of more recent development – standing in the way of children being allowed to develop emotionally in their very early years.
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