Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

In this book the authors examine in depth the lives of inner-city adolescent mothers, going beyond stereotypes to illuminate the diverse pathways to young adulthood taken by these young women.

The publication of this unique three-volume set represents the culmination of years of work by a large number of scholars, researchers, and professionals in the field of moral development.

Measurement-based assessment has dominated our educational systems at the expense of the learning and the well-being of students and teachers.

The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues.

An Introduction to Child Development, Third Edition provides undergraduate students in psychology and other disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence, in a readily accessible format.

In this accessible and thought-provoking text, the author examines the behaviour of babies and young children in a developmental context, and takes into account the shifts and changes over time as young children grow and mature.

This book examines the modern pandemic of online child sexual exploitation (OCSE).

This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory.

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.

This book describes classroom-tested strategies for improving thinking, feeling and acting in students.

Have you ever been told you are chatty or fidgety at school?

Questionnaires in Second Language Research is the first state-of-the-art methodological guide for producing and using questionnaires as reliable and valid research instruments in second language studies.

This book equips school psychologists and other mental health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of mental health and well-being in adolescent girls.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison has always been a fighter--yet as a young teen, no one knew she was also a victim.

This book was first published in 1979.

This volume assists practicing mental health professionals in expanding their knowledge about nutritional and herbal interventions that can be attempted as alternatives to prescription medications.

Due to the extensive changes in family structure such as the increase of single parent families, a high divorce rate, and the decline of the extended family, support systems for young children are in decline.

On the whim of an idea, a sophomore student, unlike any other sophomore, takes on the might of the academic world with one of the most thought provoking books written on psychology and philosophy.

As they play, children do more than imagine--they also invent life-long approaches to thinking, feeling, and relating to other people.

Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little's highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology.

Although all recorded societies have contained a few people of extreme old age, they have been the exception rather than the rule.

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education.

First published in 2000.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open.

This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting.

Although attachment theory was originally rooted in psychoanalysis, the two areas have since developed quite independently.

A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health offers mental health professionals a practical, philosophical, and playful guide for working relationally and developmentally with dilemmas, muddles, and the emotions that accompany them.

Originally published in 1993.

This book reconstructs the foundations of developmental and educational psychology and fills an important gap in the field by arguing for a specific spatial turn so that human growth, experience and development focus not only on time but space.

This special issue represents the initial products of the first five years of a multi-center project entitled "e;Origins of Communicative Disorders.

Key human development theories that continue to guide research and practice are examined in this engaging text.

Dans ce livre, plus de cent experts de la psychologie positive provenant des quatre coins du globe partagent leur vision du meilleur chemin vers le bonheur.

Volume 27 of Adolescent Psychiatry focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma on its victims, especially the young.

3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A Post-Piagetian Approach to Cognitive Development puts forward Olivier Houde's 3-System theory of the cognitive brain, based on numerous post-Piagetian psychological and brain imaging data acquired from children and 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.

When your child has OCD your world can turn upside down and inside out.

A unique companion to professional play practice!

In this concise and lucid survey, originally published in 1972, the author considers the major theoretical perspectives influential in the psychology of thinking at the time.

This book provides comprehensive advice on what to write about for children, how to write it, and how to present the work professionally for publication.

Transforming Teen Behavior: Parent-Teen Protocols for Psychosocial Skills Training is a clinician's guide for treating teens exhibiting emotional and behavioral disturbances.

Planning.

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts.

This book focuses on the projections of romantic love and its progression in a selection of popular romance novels and identifies an innovation within the genre's formula and structure.

The book offers a global perspective on social and emotional learning skills (SEL) by summarizing findings from a collaborative multi-national and cross-cultural study of educator perceptions regarding the nature and value of SEL skills conducted by career development researchers from 19 countries.