Key Topics in Children’s Emotional Development

Integrating developmental research with clinical studies of children’s emotional problems, Key Topics in Emotional Development explores how children begin to express their feelings, empathize, or sympathize with other people’s emotions, and, in some cases, struggle to manage their own feelings about the worlds in which they live.

Dale F. Hay is Professor Emerita in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. She is a developmental psychologist whose studies of children’s development have been funded by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the Waterloo Foundation in the UK, and the National Science Foundation in the US. She has written an earlier textbook on emotional development, co-authored a book on statistics, and editing a number of books on topics in developmental psychology.