Describe the changes that take place in the adolescent’s relationship with her parents that come into play in these three steps you suggest.

School is an important and common
experience where socioemotional and moral development play out. For this
assignment, you will compose a written analysis of a case study on
Angela, who is in late childhood.

Case Study, Angela, 10:

Angela is a 10-year-old child who
identifies as mixed race. Her father of Jamaican and Trinidadian descent
and mother of Irish descent divorced when she was about 8 months old.
Because her father moved out of state and her mother worked long hours,
Angela spent a substantial amount of time with her grandmother until she
was about 5 years old. Her mother, who was employed as a server,
sometimes worked 10- and 12-hour shifts. Her father worked as a manager
of a grocery store seafood department and was sometimes relocated to new
stores.

Angela has recently moved to a new
location with her mom, farther from her grandma, about 30 minutes away,
and into an entirely new school district. Imagine that you are Angela’s
guidance counselor. Her teacher came to you recently and said, “Angela
is really quite intelligent and super creative, but I have noticed she
is having a difficult time making friends. Do you think you could help
her?”

Of course, you are willing to help one of your students, and you begin by observing Angela on the playground.

You have decided to have a couple of
meetings with Angela to get to know her and then hope to bring her mom
into the conversation.

Part I

Using your developmental psychology background (e.g., attachment, temperament, self-esteem), determine the following items:

What type of attachment would you predict that Angela has with
her caregivers? How would you predict that this has affected her
adjustment? Explain how Angela’s cognitive and physical changes come
into play.
In psychology, we know that labels can be dangerous. How would
you have a conversation with Angela’s mother about how Angela’s
temperament and peer status might be affecting her adjustment at her new
school without giving Angela a negative label?
You have the impression after meeting with Angela and her mother
that they are on board with being proactive in creating positive change
for Angela. What three steps would you suggest Angela and her mother
take that would improve Angela’s self-esteem and emotional maturity?
Describe the changes that take place in the adolescent’s relationship
with her parents that come into play in these three steps you suggest.

Part II

Thanks to your work as her guidance
counselor, Angela has made a successful transition and has friends at
her new school. Furthermore, she has been asked to participate in a
program as a peer mentor. Angela’s school has a great deal of
socioeconomic, racial, and cultural diversity. Unfortunately, there has
been a significant amount of bullying due to perceptions regarding
differences. Angela’s role is to help other kids in her elementary
school make prosocial decisions around the issue of bullying.

Once you have read the case study,
answer the questions below in a single document. Your total response
(for Parts I and II combined) must be at least two pages in length. Your
textbook must be used as a source along with at least one additional
source. All sources used must be cited and referenced according to APA
guidelines.

How may the role of Angela’s peers in her life be changing because she is in middle childhood?
What important factors have researchers discovered that increase the likelihood of bullying?
Given what you have learned about moral development in this
unit, how would Lawrence Kohlberg approach Angela and her peers given
his theory of moral development? What would a plan for much younger
students, such as kindergarteners, look like if it were created by
Angela?
If Angela was working with her female peers, would you recommend
a different strategy? Would that align with Carol Gilligan’s
perspective?

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