Unit IV Case Study School is an important and common experience where socioemotional and moral development play out. For this assignment, you will compose a written analysis of two case studies. Read the two case studies below. Once you have read each case study, complete the questions below it, and create one Word document that answers the questions from Case Study 1 and Case Study 2. You may answer each question individually (200 word minimum), or you can combine the questions from Case Study 1 and Case Study 2 into a two-page minimum essay. Any sources used, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA guidelines.

Case Study 1: Angela is 10 years old. Her parents divorced when she was about eight-months old, and she spent a lot of time with her grandmother until she was about five. Her mother was working, and her father no longer lived in the area. Angela has recently moved to a new location with her mom (farther from her grandma and into a 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. Using your developmental psychology background (e.g., attachment, temperament, self-esteem), determine the following:

1. What type of attachment would you predict that Angela has with her caregivers? How would you predict that this has impacted her adjustment?

2. 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 impacting her adjustment without giving Angela a negative label?

3. 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?

Case Study 2: 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.

1. How may the role of Angela’s peers in her life be changing as she is in middle childhood?

2. What important factors have researchers discovered that increase the likelihood of bullying?

3. Given what you have learned about moral development in this unit, how would Kohlberg approach Angela and her peers given his theory of moral development? What if Angela is to create a plan for much younger students— such as kindergarteners?

4. If Angela was working with her female peers, would you recommend a different strategy? Would that align with Gilligan’s perspective?

Must be in APA using Santrock's Lifespan Development 15th ed.