Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

How can the study of typical development inform our understanding of atypical development?

The Department for Education (DfE) want to ensure all trainee teachers have an understanding of emotional development and attachment, and so this book presents the key concepts that are essential for training in this area to ensure all teachers are up to date.

The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school.

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How can parents and teachers most effectively support the language development and academic success of deaf and hard-of-hearing children?

Traditional approaches to social skill development may often be ineffective for those in most need of them - those who are neuro-diverse (for example, on the Autism Spectrum, with dyspraxia, or with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), those who have experienced trauma, those with an intellectual disability, and those who present with Complex Communication Needs.

The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence.

Die ersten Lebensjahre sind für die Entwicklung der emotionalen und intellektuellen Grundmuster der Persönlichkeit entscheidend.

This book provides teens with an accessible introduction to counseling, psychotherapy, and other related services.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages?

This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics.

Behavioral and cognitive development is considered here as an ordered change in an individual throughout his or her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons, nor as stage-like progressions.

Although there has been much empirical study within what has been referred to as "e;functional approaches to child language,"e; there has yet to be a major attempt to compare and contrast such proposals.

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This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from researchers studying the general problem of perceptual development.

This reference examines the wide-ranging impact of militarylife on families, parenting, and child development.

Identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as early as possible can have a significant, positive impact on the child's journey to adaptation and independence.

Editor Vibiana Bowman has drawn together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of children and childhood studies (CCS) in this guided approach to literature searching in CCS.

This comprehensive reference analyzes psychological and anthropological studies concerning child and adolescent development across cultures, digging into often-forgotten topics like street children, child soldiers, and parenting in war-torn countries.

Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category) 2013!

Supporting Your Child with Special Needs offers practical activities and strategies to help you prepare your children for school success and best connect with school personnel to meet your child's unique needs.

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This book provides a holistic understanding of the state of health psychology in the Indian context and the types of psychological and social support and welfare that are offered and required within treatment processes for various illnesses.

This volume focuses on understanding the impact of age-related decline in cognitive abilities on medical decisions and compliance with medical instructions.

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children whose parents are going through a separation.

The Definitive Guide to Theraplay(R) for Practitioners, officially endorsed by the Theraplay(R) InstituteTheraplay is an intervention that focuses on enhancing the connection, trust and joy between a child and a parent.

Die Autorin schildert Chancen und Probleme in sozialen Beziehungen und seelische Schwierigkeiten, die bei hochbegabten Kindern und Erwachsenen auftreten können.

Play Therapy: A Psychodynamic Primer for the Treatment of Young Children provides a contemporary, comprehensive exploration of the theory and technique of psychoanalytically oriented play therapy, addressing both the dearth of writings on these topics and the frequent lack of in-depth education on the basic principles and practice of psychodynamic play therapy offered by contemporary training programs for child clinicians.

The book intertwines several strands of scholarship in Indian Philosophy, contemporary psychology and the lived Indian psychological practice inclusive of Yoga, advaita, tantra and bhakti to engage in an exploration of consciousness, cognitive science and philosophy.

Originally published in 1975, this volume deals with animals and human infants.

Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social.

During the last 15 years, human sociobiology has metamorphosed into evolutionary psychology.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based psychosocial intervention appropriate for a plethora of problems including anxiety, depression, and emotion dysregulation.

The hidden talents approach opens new perspectives for educators, policy makers, families, and youth to reframe the effects of adversity.

PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ON WRITING USEFUL, ACCESSIBLE, AND LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL REPORTS From clearly identifying reasons for referral to making recommendations based on assessment results, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports offers practical guidance for creating reports that enhance the understanding of children and their strengths and challenges in order to better meet their educational and functional needs.

A recent poll revealed that one in four Americans believe in both creationism and evolution, while another 41% believe that creationism is true and evolution is false.

This book provides you with a unique, simple method for getting to know yourself honestly, objectively and without prejudice and thus developing a more peaceful way of dealing with yourself and your environment.

This volume celebrates the work and influence of T.

Everything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn't realize you needed to ask.

The Brain and Educational Connections is based on current studies from neuroscientists and research in the field of psychology and education.

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works.

This book integrates the science of spatial cognition and the science of team cognition to explore the social, psychological, and behavioral phenomenon of spatial cognition as it occurs in human collectives such as dyads and work teams.

Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions.

Based on over 1500 interviews with a national random sample of 16- to 19-year-olds in 1974-5, originally published in 1978, My Mother Said.

What happens to homeless and runaway adolescents when they become adults?

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed.

Originally published in 1982, Emotion and Early Interaction is a collection of papers by investigators who had been attempting to integrate emotion and interaction processes in early development.

This important book considers how youth of color and other marginalized youth experience socio-cultural deprivation from the repetition of traumatic socio-historic experiences as well as from the institutions they interact with such as schools, mental health organizations, and social services agencies.