Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Functional Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide to Implementation and Training provides practitioners with the most updated information about applying the wide span of current functional analysis (FA) methodologies geared specifically to applied service settings.

The Emergence of Symbols: Cognition and Communication in Infancy provides information pertinent to the nature and origin of symbols, the interdependence of language and thought, and the parallels between phylogeny and ontogeny.

Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality.

This book illustrates the process of mediated dialogue in a digital age.

The nature of people's moral lives, the similarities and differences in the moral concepts of individuals and groups, and how these concepts emerge in the course of human development are topics of perennial interest.

`This volume offers a broad perspective on psychological processes in children with complex needs.

In this unique text, ten cases of music therapy with autistic children (tamariki takiwatanga) are critiqued through the eyes of family members and other autism experts.

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.

Bringing together authors from a range of academic disciplines and research backgrounds - united as standard-bearers for the child's right to play - and set against a backdrop evoking play's critical essence, this book documents the rise and fall of an explosive period of political interest in play in the UK.

Despite a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of adolescent parenting, minimal attention has been given to investigating systematic changes in adolescent mothers' and their children's psychological functioning over time.

Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems.

This book investigates the long-term impact of migration on development, engaging in a thorough analysis of the pertinent factors in migration.

Many parents find getting their child to school in the morning to be quite a challenge.

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.

Traditionally, home circumstances or school regimes have been blamed for the worst excesses of pupil disaffection.

Teaching World Languages for Social Justice: A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices offers principles based on theory, and innovative concepts, approaches, and practices illustrated through concrete examples, for promoting social justice and developing a critical praxis in foreign language classrooms in the U.

This discipline has become more reflective in recent years.

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the health of older adults.

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) is one of the most often used measures to assess intelligence and cognitive functions in children, ages 6-16 years.

This summary of recent research in neuroeconomics aims to explain how and why a person can sometimes be generous, helpful, and cooperative, yet other times behave in a self-interested and/or exploitative manner.

Babies and young children who have experienced early adversity miss out on good, nurturing relationships, and the sensorimotor development that goes along with them.

Sexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research and theory about adolescent sexuality in today's world.

Applies a historical, cultural, and life-course developmental framework toward understanding children''s lives in a changing world.

Building self-confidence in children is crucial for healthy psychological, social, and emotional development and wellbeing.

This is a collection of 48 highly useful case studies of children and adults with communication disorders.

The Cambridge Companion to Piaget provides a comprehensive introduction to different aspects of Jean Piaget''s work.

»JEDER MENSCH IST EIN UNIKAT«Über sein eigenes Leben, seine Liebe zum Glarnerland, seine Jugend in der Schweiz und die Erlebnisse mit  seiner Familie hat der berühmte Kinderarzt und Entwicklungsforscher Remo Largo meist – in aller  Bescheidenheit – geschwiegen.

Anregungen aus Praxis und Forschung liefern den sehr unterschiedlichen Berufsgruppen, die sich mit der besonders schutzbedürftigen Personengruppe Kinderflüchtlinge beschäftigen, spezifische Kenntnisse und Hilfen.

This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.

This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, and to reflect on the contents of our own mindsa theory of mind (ToM).

Over the past decade, the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate.

This comprehensive book thoroughly addresses all aspects of health care transition of adolescents and young adults with chronic illness or disability; and includes the framework, tools and case-based examples needed to develop and evaluate a Health Care Transition (HCT) planning program that can be implemented regardless of a patient's disease or disability.

This volume seeks to identify and define the parameters of a relatively new problem area -- parental development.

Modeled on the author's bestselling Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention, this new book on child clinical intervention presents much of the material in outline or bullet point format, allowing easy understanding of complex material for the busy therapist.

How to weigh genetic factors while choosing the best psychosocial interventions Psychosocial Interventions for Genetically Influenced Problems in Childhood and Adolescence explores empirically supported psychosocial interventions in light of our current understanding of the genome.

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning.

Todays parents are constantly pressured to be perfect.

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum.

Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves.

This volume shares significant contemporary "e;Francophone"e; contributions to developmental psychology outside geographic and intellectual borders of French-speaking countries.

Bildung und Lernen bis ins hohe Alter hinein sind lebenswichtig: Sie dienen als Schlüssel zur Gestaltung des gesellschaftlichen Wandels und fördern individuelle Sinnerfüllung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte.

We propose a paradigm shift in how whole-child development, learning, and thriving are understood, measured, and enhanced.

Drawing on fifty years of experience caring for children and adults, Dr.

Transformative L2 Teacher Education Innovations features empirical research studies informed by Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory (VSCT) that are explicitly and intentionally designed to transform second language (L2) teacher reasoning and thinking, as well as L2 teaching practices and pedagogical choices.

In this immensely practical manual, two leading child psychologists provide specific, down-to-earth advice for effectively handling the everyday problems of children from early childhood through adolescence.

The papers presented in this volume seek to illuminate relationships among the cognitive style of field dependence- independence and biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of human functioning across the life span.