Female relationships are described as more intense, demonstrative, exclusive, and nurturant than male. Male relationships are more likely to be based on enjoyable companionship and similarity in attitudes. The relationship is important enough to development that lack of a close friend should be viewed as a deficit. (Author)

Kindergartners and first and second graders viewed a videotape of a classroom scene in which a child who exhibited behaviors characteristic of peer-rejected children received teacher feedback. Positive feedback resulted in higher preference and moral judgment scores and more positive descriptions of the child in the video. (BG)

This module is part of a training program for foster parents and foster care workers offered at Colorado State University. The module's learning objectives address: (1) child development within the context of family and social development; (2) the stages of cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical development; (3) the range of normal…