Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes.

The landmark guide to play therapy completely updated and revised Edited by Charles E.

The landmark guide to play therapy completely updated and revised Edited by Charles E.

Sound research requires precision and reliability in its methods.

An accessible overview of the mental health effects of adolescent digital media use, for researchers, policymakers and parents.

This Element features the framework of preventive service delivery systems for breaking the cycle of problems in childhood.

Sound research requires precision and reliability in its methods.

An accessible overview of the mental health effects of adolescent digital media use, for researchers, policymakers and parents.

The non-violent resistance approach prevents escalation, while reducing parental helplessness, problem behaviors, and family discord.

The non-violent resistance approach prevents escalation, while reducing parental helplessness, problem behaviors, and family discord.

This Element explores the biological, psychological, social, and cultural contributions to the development of human cognition.

We propose a paradigm shift in how whole-child development, learning, and thriving are understood, measured, and enhanced.

We propose a paradigm shift in how whole-child development, learning, and thriving are understood, measured, and enhanced.

This Element features the framework of preventive service delivery systems for breaking the cycle of problems in childhood.

This definitive account of the intersection between music, wellness, and aging explores deeper aspects of human nature and later life.

This definitive account of the intersection between music, wellness, and aging explores deeper aspects of human nature and later life.

This Element explores children''s art as a window into their thinking and discusses intriguing connections between child art and modernism.

This Element explores children''s art as a window into their thinking and discusses intriguing connections between child art and modernism.

Easy language and preliteracy assessment instruments for childcare professionals without a speech/language degree.

Integrates research on parenting and children''s socioemotional development into a comprehensive overview of effective childrearing.

 The book provides new perspectives from leading experts examining the role of architects and urbanists in designing for inclusivity in our built environment.

Enriched with findings from anthropological scholarship, this book provides a guide to childhood in different cultures, past and present.

Easy language and preliteracy assessment instruments for childcare professionals without a speech/language degree.

Enriched with findings from anthropological scholarship, this book provides a guide to childhood in different cultures, past and present.

Integrates research on parenting and children''s socioemotional development into a comprehensive overview of effective childrearing.

This Element offers a critical assessment of the theories of newborn imitation and the stakes involved.

Provides the understanding and tools needed to help free yourself from perinatal anxiety, with clear examples and evidence-based techniques.

Provides the understanding and tools needed to help free yourself from perinatal anxiety, with clear examples and evidence-based techniques.

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition.

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition.

The most important emphasis is the focus on children''s lives, which combines child and parent depressive contexts.

The most important emphasis is the focus on children''s lives, which combines child and parent depressive contexts.

Find out how 12 World War II babies created a unified understanding on the development and prevention of human violence.

Motivation experts explain how goal-life alignment and ''thriving with social purpose'' inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning.

Comprehensive review of the science and practice of parenting in diverse cultural contexts, including policy implications and interventions.

This Element offers an overview and review of the research on gender development in childhood from a developmental science perspective.

Comprehensive review of the science and practice of parenting in diverse cultural contexts, including policy implications and interventions.

This guide helps parents of non-emerging adult children and introduces adulthood emergence failure as a systemic condition.

Provides an evidence-based overview of the challenges of becoming a parent in a broad range of contemporary contexts.

This book provides an understanding of memory development through an examination of the scientific contributions of Peter A.

This book provides an understanding of memory development through an examination of the scientific contributions of Peter A.

This Element offers an overview and review of the research on gender development in childhood from a developmental science perspective.

Provides an evidence-based overview of the challenges of becoming a parent in a broad range of contemporary contexts.

This guide helps parents of non-emerging adult children and introduces adulthood emergence failure as a systemic condition.

Examines the development of child helpers in varied cultural contexts, reviewing evidence and discussing the benefits of the helper stage.

Motivation experts explain how goal-life alignment and ''thriving with social purpose'' inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning.

Examines the development of child helpers in varied cultural contexts, reviewing evidence and discussing the benefits of the helper stage.

What scientists do and don''t know about children''s spirituality and religiousness, for better and worse.

Offers an entirely new way of thinking about how psychology works and how it constructs knowledge, using a process-based approach.

Intelligence is not IQ.