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Peer relations

Essential to psychosocial adjustment in early childhood and well beyond, children’s relations with their peers play a major role in their overall development. Promoting social and emotional competencies and intervening in cases of difficulty very early in life seems particularly effective for fostering positive experiences among children.

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    Peer relations: sowing seeds of friendship  

    October 2009

  • Peer relations

    Peer relations: supporting children to develop friendships 

    October 2009

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Topic Editor:

Michel Boivin, PhD, Université Laval, Canada

Last update: December 2014

Topic funded by:

  • Margaret & Wallace McCain Family Foundation
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