Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

How do children acquire language?

This book brings together key authors from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) to discuss theoretical and empirical research on families and children.

G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large.

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Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another.

First published in 1978.

Spielen weckt in allen Altersstufen die in uns angelegte Kreativität, Kommunikationsfähigkeit und Kooperation, die heute als Schlüsselqualifikationen für eine gelingende Lebensgestaltung im 21.

This thought-provoking volume explores the phenomenon of childhood experiences of sudden moments of self-awareness.

Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment.

Managing Children's Disruptive Behavior is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals and parents who care for children whose behavior problems are beyond those encountered normally.

This book addresses the question of whether or not behavioural differences between children can be most appropriately characterised by dimensions of psychological problems or by categorical diagnoses.

Dieser Klassiker der Entwicklungspsychologie liefert eine gut verständliche und immer noch spannend zu lesende Übersicht über die typischen Wahrnehmungs- und Interpretationsmuster von Vorschulkindern.

Creating Meaning in Young Adulthood explores the ways in which young adults are creating meanings in life through their relationships with the world.

There has been a burgeoning of interest in the relation between biological development--particularly brain development--and behavioral development.

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.

Tiger's Child, the deeply-moving sequel to Torey Hayden's Sunday Times bestselling first book, One Child, plus the first of four books from learning disabilities specialist Mary MacCracken, The Lost Children, combined in a single eBook volume.

The final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the life-span perspective: constancy and change in human development; opportunities for and constraints on plasticity in structure and function across life; the potential for intervention across the entire life course (and thus for the creation of an applied developmental science); individual differences (diversity) in life paths, in contexts (or the ecology) of human development, and in changing relations between people and contexts; interconnections and discontinuities across age levels and developmental periods; and the importance of integrating biological, psychological, social, cultural, and historical levels of organization in order to understand human development.

Guided by developmental cultural psychology, this volume focuses on understandings and responses to disability and stigmatization from the perspectives of educators practicing in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.

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

This comprehensive, forward-looking text is the first holistic research overview and practical methods guide for researching the role that affective and conative factors play in second language learners' task performance and language acquisition.

Genome Editing for Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Concept to Clinical Trials examines recent advances in neurodegenerative disease research and clinical challenges in practical applications.

This book is the first to introduce applied behavioral, social, and health sciences researchers to a new analytic method, the time-varying effect model (TVEM).

Navigating Speech Sound Disorders in Children is an easy-to-read resource which gives an overview of the whole area of speech sound disorders (SSDs) in children, covering assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management, underpinned by the latest research in the field.

This book offers a unique glimpse into the startlingly complex world of acute children's psychiatry through 12 chapters, each inspired by the actual visit of a child in psychiatric crisis to one of the most well-known psychiatric emergency rooms in the nation.

Utilizing an informal, sometimes humorous style of writing, this book brings to life 16 developmental psychologists who made a significant contribution to their field.

"A través de una información concisa y organizada, alrededor de algoritmos de decisiones, esta obra se constituye en un Norte en las áreas específi cas de la neurología que son frecuentes en lapráctica clínica.

From an award-winning neuroscience researcher with twenty years of teaching experience, Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain uses educator-friendly language to explain how the brain learns.

Children can struggle to engage with and articulate certain emotions, which can have a profound impact on their behaviour, confidence and ability to form relationships, follow instructions and perform tasks.

Handbook of Social Media Use: Online Relationships, Security, Privacy, and Society explores the determinants of social media use in individuals.

Given the fundamental challenges to society in this era, a radical rewrite of how we approach science and culture is necessary.

Despite their popularity, online video games have been met with suspicion by the popular media and academic community.

This book investigates the most common approach to assessing behavior in youth development.

This book bridges the gap between Islamic and conventional (micro)economics by demonstrating how modern tools and theories of microeconomics can be applied to Islamic assumptions regarding economics and finance.

A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.

This book is aimed at exploring the relevance of social-emotional competencies for preventing preschool children's behavior problems.

Chronic diseases and premature death can often be linked to social, environmental, and behavioral factors that are subject to modification, especially during adolescence when many habits--both good and bad--are formed.

Many children who have experienced serious trauma are withdrawn and closed off, making it difficult to engage with them in therapy effectively.

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the illustrated picture book Harry's Story.

Ein Titel aus der ReiheWissen & LebenHerausgegeben von Wulf BertramSoziale Neurowissenschaft für EinsteigerIn ihren Anfängen untersuchte die Neurowissenschaft Töne und Lichtflecken, mittlerweile ist sie den Kinderschuhen entwachsen und widmet sich komplexen Phänomenen.

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This encyclopedia provides a concise introduction to the mental health topics of greatest concern to adolescents.

Whether or not infants' earliest perception of the world is a "e;blooming, buzzing, confusion,"e; it is not long before they come to perceive structure and order among the objects and events around them.

Embark on an illuminating voyage through the biological foundations of human nature and development with Psychobiological Footprints through Human Development.

Self-regulation in education is a familiar and important topic for all educators: professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars.

 This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity.

This book is designed as a treatment manual for using family-based treatments with children struggling with mental illness, supporting both family therapists and the families they are helping.

Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education: A Training Module is a resource designed to help pre-service and in-service early childhood educators, including infant-toddler caregivers, understand the role of culture in their programs.

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The study of "e;usage"e; has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now.