A Bird View
This section is discussing some important key concepts and theories relate to the child development with the special focus on risk, protective factors, and resilience of the children. Most of these theories are put forth by psychologist and that has clinically experimented in different settings. For the purpose of better understanding on the theoretical perspective of this study, here explains the psycho social theories, behavior and social learning theories, biological theories, cognitive development theories very briefly and ecological system theory and resilience theory in a deep manner. All these theories emphasized on understanding of child development and to provide a better action to improve.
Sigmund Freud (psycho sexual theory) and Erik Erikson (psycho social theory) are the two notable theorist in psycho analytical theories. In his psycho-sexual theory, Freud stressed on the parent’s role in the child’s personality development by emphasizing on management of child’s sexual and aggressive drives in the first few years of the …show more content…
In environmental model of ecology each organism in an ecosystem linked with other organism in one way or other. The social ecological theory postulate that the development of the individual is linked with the interaction between the biological and psychological traits of the individual child and the conditions in his or her environment, the environmental conditions included, family, peer, school and community influences (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1986). The system approach is helpful to understand the resilience and resilience factors at the familial and social environmental level. This perspective giving a less importance to the personal factors of an individual, whereas emphasizing on how the individual and social factors interact to design personal agency and structural opportunity (Evans,