Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential neurodivergent figures who have achieved amazing things in recent times.

This book examines the many roles of families in their members' food access, preferences, and consumption.

The safety of children in the context of protection from assault and violence is a basic need of our society.

Disorganized children' may display a range of behaviours symptomatic of, for example, ADHD, autism and conduct disorders, but they often fail to meet all the criteria for a clear diagnosis.

People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) understand and respond to the world in a very different way from people without this condition.

Emotional abuse and neglect are at the core of all types of child maltreatment, and have the most harmful effects on the physical and psychological development and well-being of children.

Contrary to the belief that computers isolate users, Karen Littleton and Paul Light demonstrate that learning with computers is often a collaborative and social activity.

Praise for the First Edition:'A warm feeling of positive reassurance and guidance runs throughout the book.

The handbook provides thoughtful and provocative critiques of the science and practice of school mental health.

Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition.

This book raises the issue of the practice of patrimonial power with a focus on habitations, particularly in the urban areas of Indonesia.

What does it mean to find a gene or set of genes that are associated with ADHD, schizophrenia, or autism?

Stepfamilies represent an increasing number of American households and shape the upbringing of countless stepchildren.

Exploring the Complexities of Human Action offers a bold theoretical framework for thinking systematically and integratively about what people do as they go about their lives.

Stress and anxiety in children and teenagers are just as prevalent as in adults.

Dealing with Disputes and Conflict: A Self-Help Tool-Kit for Resolving Arguments in Everyday Life offers accessible and practical strategies and solutions to guide untrained mediators and readers on effective ways to resolve disputes and conflict, across a wide range of dispute contexts.

Information from neuroscience is growing and being properly used, and misused wich makes it imperative that educators receive accurate and practical information.

En los últimos sesenta años, los cambios en las actitudes de los jóvenes han sido muy marcados.

Der Kindheit kommt eine grundlegende Bedeutung für den weiteren Verlauf des Lebens zu.

The familiar image of the disabled tends to emphasize their limitations and reduced quality of life.

For effective use, this book can be purchased alongside the professional guide, Supporting Children with DLD.

The need to understand human social life is basic to our human nature and fuels a life-long quest that we begin in early childhood.

In spite of its obvious importance and popularity, the field of cognitive development remains highly fragmented, scientifically.

Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit.

This comprehensive text makes an important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements.

Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia gives a conceptual framework for curriculum design for English Language Teaching, taking into account context specific features in the teaching-learning settings of post-colonial South Asia.

Rebels with a Cause is a comprehensive guide to working with adolescents using action techniques and drama therapy.

Butler and Huang's book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at children of primary and pre-primary years.

Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as perceiving, remembering, learning, and problem solving.

This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychological science.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

Fad diets have influenced our society for hundreds of years.

State-of-the-art guidance on the effective assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with ADHDNew updated editionProvides guidance on multimodal care and diversity issuesIncludes downloadable handoutsThis updated new edition of this popular text integrates the latest research and practices to give practitioners concise and readable guidance on the assessment and effective treatment of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Have your students mastered the underlining theory and skills of coaching practice but wanting to get a flavour of what coaching actually looks like in different real-life settings?

*Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2006*Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes.

Focusing on reproductive and sexual justice, this important book explores in detail both the challenges that trans people face when negotiating reproductive and sexual health in restrictive social contexts, and their agency in advocating for change.

Ethical Applied Behavior Analysis Models for Individuals Impacted by Autism provides teachers, parents, and behavior analysts with a comprehensive analysis of evidence-based, behavior analytic programs for the therapeutic treatment of persons with autism, from infancy through adulthood.

Navigating Media's Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence moves through research and questions that are relevant to practicing pediatricians and therapists in their everyday practice.

This provocative new work on children's development in context presents recent theoretical developments and research findings that have been generated by sociocultural theory.

Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes in offending and problem behaviors over time.

Letting Go of Perfect gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism.

This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions.

Pete and Jem are very helpful at the supermarket, but end up causing chaos with a tower of food on display.

This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement.

Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and perspectives from Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition.

A comprehensive collection of multidisciplinary perspectives on the forms and functions of play and its importance in development.

Children with Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing struggle to regulate their emotions and behaviors in response to sensory stimulation.

We live in a self-centered world, despite the call from employers and thought leaders for more cooperation and compassion.