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In your view, how can we best support mothers? If you were to create a program to help prevent depression or to help depressed mothers, what might you include?

To sum up, over the first few months of life, infants display the full range of basic emotions. As their cognitive and social capabilities develop, they are able to experience complex social emotions, such as embarrassment. The social world plays a role in emotional development. Adults interact with infants, provide opportunities to observe and practice emotional expressions, and assist in regulating emotions. Much of emotional development is the result of the interplay of infants’ emerging capacities and the contexts in which they are raised, especially the emotional contexts within the home. The accompanying Lives in Context feature discusses the challenges maternal depression poses for emotional development.