Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This edited volume examines current themes in the neurolinguistic study of multilingual and monolingual adults and highlights several new directions the field is moving toward.

Social anxiety disorder causes significant distress and academic impairment for many adolescents.

This Element explores children''s art as a window into their thinking and discusses intriguing connections between child art and modernism.

Winner - 6th Annual Beverly Hills Book Award for Relationships and Parenting & FamiliesAward Finalist in the "e;Parenting & Family"e; category of the 2017 Best Book AwardsFinalist, 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Memoirs Overcoming Adversity/TragedyLinda Atwell and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey a high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities have always had a complicated relationship.

This valuable text will help readers to understand the physical, social, and cognitive development of high ability children.

In the decade after high school, young people continue to rely on their families in many ways-sometimes for financial support, sometimes for help with childcare, and sometimes for continued shelter.

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.

Lawmakers and judges often enact and enforce laws and policies that impact youth.

The Neurodegeneration Revolution: Emerging Therapies and Sustainable Solutions provides insights into the mechanics, characteristics, behavior, application, and manufacturing of advanced materials such as nanowires, 2D materials, biomaterials, smart materials, and more.

The effects of trauma and abuse on children can be long-lasting, acute and damaging.

The third edition of Memory provides students with the most comprehensive introduction to the study of human memory and its applications in the field.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

This book provides a comprehensive overview of child abuse and neglect globally in general terms and with empirical evidence from Puducherry, India.

The thrust of the book is not so much upon the formation of grammatical constructs but rather upon the shape of the grammatical system and its relation to semantics, discourse and pragmatics.

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion.

Numerical Cognition: The Basics provides an understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that enable us to perceive, process, and memorize numerical information.

This is the first ever introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Framework written specifically for undergraduate students.

In Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind, noted educators Arthur L.

This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes.

In late 1980s, I was controlling a large staff, which had their own personal problems, but slowly the staff members started approaching me for guidance, though this was not part of my official duty, as such , in the beginning I was reluctant to render any advise, but I found that if the problems are not sorted out in a sympathetic manner, then this leads to loss of output and at times, even led to accidents.

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we are.

The book examines the intersections of online learning theories and models in the current research literature for teaching in digital environments in postsecondary education.

This book explores humanising practice within higher education (HE).

Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle.

This unique text covers the core research methods and the philosophical assumptions that underlie various strategies, designs, and methodologies used when researching cultural issues.

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and theories of family communication and family relationships.

A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.

Wenn auf diesem Planeten ein Kind geboren wird, gerät es in eine konkrete Umgebung, von der es annehmen muss, dass sie die ganze Welt repräsentiert.

With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade.

How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us?

Brendan Hyde identifies four characteristics of children's spirituality: the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing.

Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web is devoted to the exploration of how the World Wide Web might be used to deliver current, easily accessible health information to adults over the age of 60 and their caregivers.

The WISC-III is the most frequently used IQ assessment technique in the United States.

Activity and engagement are vital to our well-being throughout our lives and this continues to be just as true of people living with dementia.

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

In a detailed analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders, this book highlights the connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders, and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion.

Assessment, intervention and living with children who are looked after or adopted all require an understanding of psychology and its application.

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching.

The teenage years will bring problems that will make any parent long for the days of their childhood.

Growing Children's Social and Emotional Skills examines how parent-educator partnerships can be achieved to enhance the development of children's social and emotional skills.

This volume provides practicing clinicians and researchers with an update on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology as well as those that are emerging in the field and have promise of being proven effective as additional research is conducted.

Full of simple strategies for happiness in children and teens with autism, this book is a must read for anyone dedicated to the wellbeing of a child on the spectrum.

Pete and Jem get ready for Belle's birthday, but get stuck trying to blow up balloons.

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

This book examines lifelong learning through the lens of policy studies.

Originally published in 1940, this book was addressed to students of the psychology of childhood and to parents and teachers who were trying to get from psychology some light on problems of discipline and of the difficult child.

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.