Elly Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elly Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elly |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0340-9544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Listen to the Client. (Foster) Children about 'Difficult' Parents: How to Handle Conflicts with Them
In the 1920s Vygotsky, one of the founders of a socio-historical approach to developmental psychology, was apprenticed to an experienced clinical psychiatrist. A theoretical framework and an interview instrument were developed to study the dynamics of children&s;s behaviour from their own perspective. The aim was to understand children&s;s inner logic, that is, the connections children make between their actions, the goals and values they pursue,…
Friendship in young children: Construction of a behavioural sociometric method
We need methods to measure friendship among very young children to study the beginnings of friendship and the impact of experiences with friendship for later development. This article presents an overview of methods for measuring very young children’s friendships. A behavioural sociometric method was constructed to study degrees of friendship among children in daycare centres. Friendship indications of earlier studies were verified. Data were col…
The relationship between young children’s linguistic ability, home language, and their adaptive modifying strategies in peer conflicts
This article presents the results of a study of conflict strategies in 96 two- and three-year-old children in multiethnic childcare centers. The main question was whether young children’s use of psychologically complex strategies in conflict management depends on language development. It is hypothesized that 2-year-olds rely on verbal adaptive modification strategies less often than 3-year-olds; and that children with a home language different fr…
Learning Morality in Peer Conflict: A study of schoolchildren’s narratives about being betrayed by a friend
This article discusses the narratives of Dutch schoolchildren from varied cultural-ethnic backgrounds discussing experiences of being betrayed by a friend, and the lessons they learned from the experience. In line with earlier social constructivist research in western societies, the authors found that peers and friends acted as highly emotional forums for moral learning. Revealing intimate information led to awareness of two moral issues: the iss…
Use Your Words’: A Sociocultural Approach to the Teacher’s Role in the Transition from Physical to Verbal Strategies of Resolving Peer Conflicts among Toddlers
In resolving peer conflicts among young children, a sociocultural approach stresses the importance of creating a Zone of Proximal Development through the teacher’s use of dialogic tools. This approach is questioned and modified following a review of studies of toddlers’ peer conflictsand of language acquisition. In the early years, the non-symbolic, social function of speech predominates. Only gradually do toddlers learn to understand the deconte…
Use Your Words: A Sociocultural Approach to the Teacher's Role in the Transition from Physical to Verbal Strategies of Resolving Peer Conflicts among Toddlers
A Concept Becomes a Passion: Moral Commitments and the Affective Development of the Survivors of Child Abuse
The questions of resilience and discontinuity in the affective development of survivors of child abuse are explored from the viewpoint of Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory and current social constructivist theories. Moral tools, commitments and higher-order skills play a crucial part in the development of agency, personal empowerment and discontinuity. The recurrence of affective problems in survivors may be connected to moral confusion and i…
A Dissociative Identity Disorder is a Developmental Accomplishment: Reply to Van der Hart and Steele
In the theory of dissociation inspired by Janet, psychic processes are reified. The client is conceptualized as a victim-to-whom-things-happen. The development of the higher mental functions and control systems that enable people-including survivors of childhood abuse-to monitor their psychic functioning is ignored. Indeed, the Janetian trauma treatment is intended to break down the client's higher mental functions: by re-experiencing horror, aut…
Culturally Mediated Learning and the Development of Self-Regulation by Survivors of Child Abuse: A Vygotskian Approach to the Support of Survivors of Child Abuse
In his studies of handicapped and ‘difficult’ children, Vygotsky applied one of his basic assumptions in the domain of affective development: that human individuals try to master themselves from the ‘outside’ through the development of higher mental functions. His theoretical accounts provide both a conceptualization of the unique methods employed by abused children to compensate and a conceptual framework to study the way new psychological tools…
Rethinking Moral Issues in Therapies of the Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect
The (Ab)use of Reliving Childhood Traumata
Most treatments of adult survivors of child abuse are based on the assumption that without memory, without an understanding or felt experience that the abuse is at the heart of the client's difficulties, the survivor is lost. This paper questions this assumption. The alleged therapeutic value of reliving is based on the denial of unbearable suffering, and on an abstract idea of mental health which has its roots in psychoanalytic theories for the …
Shared Care for Children
Developmental psychologists have no adequate way of understanding shared care because their theories are rooted in a pedagogic concept of family upbringing with mother at home. This article shows how deeply developmental theories, concepts and research questions are anchored in the moral and social-political choices and problems of the middle class. Special attention is given to attachment theory as a pedagogic model for regulating emotions and b…
Learning Morality in Peer Conflict: A study of schoolchildren’s narratives about being betrayed by a friend
This article discusses the narratives of Dutch schoolchildren from varied cultural-ethnic backgrounds discussing experiences of being betrayed by a friend, and the lessons they learned from the experience. In line with earlier social constructivist research in western societies, the authors found that peers and friends acted as highly emotional forums for moral learning. Revealing intimate information led to awareness of two moral issues: the iss…
Shared Care for Children
Developmental psychologists have no adequate way of understanding shared care because their theories are rooted in a pedagogic concept of family upbringing with mother at home. This article shows how deeply developmental theories, concepts and research questions are anchored in the moral and social-political choices and problems of the middle class. Special attention is given to attachment theory as a pedagogic model for regulating emotions and b…
The (Ab)use of Reliving Childhood Traumata
Most treatments of adult survivors of child abuse are based on the assumption that without memory, without an understanding or felt experience that the abuse is at the heart of the client's difficulties, the survivor is lost. This paper questions this assumption. The alleged therapeutic value of reliving is based on the denial of unbearable suffering, and on an abstract idea of mental health which has its roots in psychoanalytic theories for the …
Rethinking Moral Issues in Therapies of the Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect
A Dissociative Identity Disorder is a Developmental Accomplishment: Reply to Van der Hart and Steele
In the theory of dissociation inspired by Janet, psychic processes are reified. The client is conceptualized as a victim-to-whom-things-happen. The development of the higher mental functions and control systems that enable people-including survivors of childhood abuse-to monitor their psychic functioning is ignored. Indeed, the Janetian trauma treatment is intended to break down the client's higher mental functions: by re-experiencing horror, aut…
Culturally Mediated Learning and the Development of Self-Regulation by Survivors of Child Abuse: A Vygotskian Approach to the Support of Survivors of Child Abuse
In his studies of handicapped and ‘difficult’ children, Vygotsky applied one of his basic assumptions in the domain of affective development: that human individuals try to master themselves from the ‘outside’ through the development of higher mental functions. His theoretical accounts provide both a conceptualization of the unique methods employed by abused children to compensate and a conceptual framework to study the way new psychological tools…
A Concept Becomes a Passion: Moral Commitments and the Affective Development of the Survivors of Child Abuse
The questions of resilience and discontinuity in the affective development of survivors of child abuse are explored from the viewpoint of Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory and current social constructivist theories. Moral tools, commitments and higher-order skills play a crucial part in the development of agency, personal empowerment and discontinuity. The recurrence of affective problems in survivors may be connected to moral confusion and i…
Use Your Words’: A Sociocultural Approach to the Teacher’s Role in the Transition from Physical to Verbal Strategies of Resolving Peer Conflicts among Toddlers
In resolving peer conflicts among young children, a sociocultural approach stresses the importance of creating a Zone of Proximal Development through the teacher’s use of dialogic tools. This approach is questioned and modified following a review of studies of toddlers’ peer conflictsand of language acquisition. In the early years, the non-symbolic, social function of speech predominates. Only gradually do toddlers learn to understand the deconte…
Use Your Words: A Sociocultural Approach to the Teacher's Role in the Transition from Physical to Verbal Strategies of Resolving Peer Conflicts among Toddlers
Learning Morality in Peer Conflict: A study of schoolchildren’s narratives about being betrayed by a friend
This article discusses the narratives of Dutch schoolchildren from varied cultural-ethnic backgrounds discussing experiences of being betrayed by a friend, and the lessons they learned from the experience. In line with earlier social constructivist research in western societies, the authors found that peers and friends acted as highly emotional forums for moral learning. Revealing intimate information led to awareness of two moral issues: the iss…
The relationship between young children’s linguistic ability, home language, and their adaptive modifying strategies in peer conflicts
This article presents the results of a study of conflict strategies in 96 two- and three-year-old children in multiethnic childcare centers. The main question was whether young children’s use of psychologically complex strategies in conflict management depends on language development. It is hypothesized that 2-year-olds rely on verbal adaptive modification strategies less often than 3-year-olds; and that children with a home language different fr…
Friendship in young children: Construction of a behavioural sociometric method
We need methods to measure friendship among very young children to study the beginnings of friendship and the impact of experiences with friendship for later development. This article presents an overview of methods for measuring very young children’s friendships. A behavioural sociometric method was constructed to study degrees of friendship among children in daycare centres. Friendship indications of earlier studies were verified. Data were col…
Listen to the Client. (Foster) Children about 'Difficult' Parents: How to Handle Conflicts with Them
In the 1920s Vygotsky, one of the founders of a socio-historical approach to developmental psychology, was apprenticed to an experienced clinical psychiatrist. A theoretical framework and an interview instrument were developed to study the dynamics of children&s;s behaviour from their own perspective. The aim was to understand children&s;s inner logic, that is, the connections children make between their actions, the goals and values they pursue,…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Child abuse (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works)