Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Lessons in Educational Equality details the concrete ways that all children can reap the benefits of a quality education regardless of gender, ethnicity, language, income, or learning difference.

Over one billion people use the Internet globally.

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognition.

In a period in which the future of the European Union is subject to increased scrutiny, it is more vital than ever that the thoughts and views of younger generations are considered.

Originally published in 1986, in this compendium of recent research on children's play, acknowledged experts review the latest methodologies and ideas, examine salient problems, and reveal the application of current knowledge in several areas of professional practice at the time.

Help your daughter fulfil her potential and achieve success in a challenging world.

An in-depth overview, this book examines major current problems faced by today's adolescents.

Now updated for its second edition, this illuminating textbook explores the developmental stages and changes during adulthood that define some of the most pivotal years of our lives.

Wenn das eigene Kind Suizidgedanken oder Suizidabsichten hat, ist das für Eltern eine tief erschütternde Erfahrung.

The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong.

First published in 1985.

This book suggests a strategy to put students'' practices, cultures, and identities in the center of a twenty-first-century education.

A clear guide to one of todayis most popular treatment modalities, this volume explores why the narrative metaphor is important in the therapeutic relationship, and how to incorporate narrative techniques into social work practice.

This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss.

Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond the usual research populations that have extensive Western schooling in common.

Now in its second edition, this practical handbook assesses global developmental delay and other neurodevelopmental disorders in young children.

Originally published in 1972, the aim of Psychology and Visual Aesthetics was to present a study mainly concerned with experimental work on visual aesthetics.

With research perspectives on elements of psychology and technology, Emotional Intelligence in the Digital Era: Concepts, Frameworks, and Applications provides insight into the intersection of emotional intelligence and digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI).

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.

Odile Atthalin was a young woman from a prominent, bourgeois family in Paris when she decided to leave home in search of meaning.

Wie wir werden, wer wir sindVom führenden Entwicklungsforscher der GegenwartEin Muss für alle, die sich für die menschliche Entwicklung interessierenBeeindruckende Einführung in die BindungsforschungJede Lebensphase von der Geburt bis zum Erwachsenenalter hat ihre eigenen Herausforderungen und Konfliktfelder.

Many therapists can attest to the fact that adolescents can be difficult and frustating clients-problems are seldom well defined, clearly delineated symptoms are more exception than the rule, and troubling situations often involve the entire family.

For those who teach students in psychology, education, and the social sciences, the Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology, Second Edition provides practical applications and rich sources of ideas.

During the last decade there has been increased awareness of the limitations of standard approaches to the study of development.

Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population.

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field.

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

This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments.

This book examines the complex impact of prenatal stress and the mechanism of its transmission on children's development and well-being, including prenatal programming, epigenetics, infl ammatory processes, and the brain-gut microbiome.

In this book, leading behavioral scientists describe advances in research on regulatory influences that govern the development of childhood behavior problems.

This book re-examines the case of Nadia, discovered as a child aged six, who had been drawing with phenomenal skill and visual realism from the age of three, despite having autism and severe learning difficulties.

This book is the second of two volumes that aim to serve as a comprehensive guide for professionals working with neuropsychological interventions especially designed for children.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

SmartHelp for Good n Angry Kids provides the reader with an innovative tool for determining a child s individual learning strengths, and for pairing this information with specific, carefully crafted activities that teach the child about anger and its appropriate expression.

Originally published in 1974, a wide and interesting set of intellectual abilities in children are examined here.

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar).

Brings together top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates in the field.

Das Buch vermittelt die konzeptionellen und methodischen Grundlagen der Früherkennung im Kindes- und Jugendalter, stellt Praxisfelder der Früherkennung vor und gibt Einblicke in die Früherkennung von Entwicklungs-, Lern- und Verhaltensstörungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter.

The second edition of the popular Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance responds to and incorporates the wealth of new research that the first edition inspired on the subject.

This language study's primary purpose is to use aphasic performance to understand language, rather than to use linguistic analysis to understand aphasia.

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for in intensive mental health care.

Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data.

Psychological assessment has always paralleled the growth of psychology and its specialties, and it is not an overstatement to say that measurement and assessment are the cornerstones of psychology, providing the tools and techniques for gathering information to inform our understanding of human behavior.

Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed mild learning disabilities, and this guide is written for clinicians involved in making such assessments.

In der Entwicklungspsychologie hat sich - auch unter dem Einfluss soziodemographischen Wandels - ein Paradigmenwechsel zu einer lebensspannenumfassenden Perspektive vollzogen.

This key textbook, now in its fourth edition, provides students with the most comprehensive introduction to the study of human memory and its applications in the field.

Mach dir deinen Schulalltag leichter!

This book explores the inheritance of trauma, distress, and healing from one generation of survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence to the next.

The first book to present the contemporary Vygotskian approach to learning and development from birth through adolescence to English-speaking educators.