Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment.

This important book considers what we know about test and exam anxiety, including how it is defined, its characteristics, how it can be identified, why and how it develops, and what can be done to support test-anxious students.

Originally published in 1976, this fourth and final volume in a series that met with critical acclaim is concerned with a certain kind of answer to the question "e;What distinguishes the concepts that are a natural part of human languages from those that are merely expressible in language?

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

Originally published in 1975, this volume (3 of 4) presents an expanded model of certain deductive abilities in children and adults.

Capturing a scientific change in thinking about personality and individual differences that has been building over the past 15 years, this volume stands at an important moment in the development of psychology as a discipline.

This book examines effects that family has on the social and emotional development of teens.

Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales, step-by-step implementation guidelines, and rich clinical examples.

Spirituality is increasingly acknowledged to be an essential part of child development.

Hay temas de los que es difícil hablar y aún escribir.

The violent imagination begins in experiences of violation against the self and grows through the stories, myths, folktales and anecdotes of everyday life.

In The Generation Jigsaw, originally published in 1976, Irene Gore explores some of the problems which face older people in the family and the community.

This insightful book presents and discusses the dialogues that took place in the New Directions in Middle Level Education Research session at the 2022 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference.

This book offers an overview of the history, definitions, and treatments for autism spectrum disorders from 1943 to the present day.

There is much controversy about the dangers of a free media when it comes to children and adolescents.

Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail.

Neuroprotection in Alzheimer's Disease offers a translational point-of-view from both basic and clinical standpoints, putting it on the cusp for further clinical development with its emphasis on nerve cell protection, including the accumulation of knowledge from failed clinical trials and new advances in disease management.

In this book, Yael Pilowsky Bankirer reads into Freud's writings with the unique prism of circumcision as a marker for both the formation of masculine identity, and for matricide, the disappearance of the mother.

Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children.

Now in its second edition, this multidisciplinary text addresses the growing scholarly connection between religion and family life while offering an accurate and engaging account of why and how families are impacted by their religion.

Sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Trust, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, Second Edition, provides a major update since the first edition in 2005.

Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang prevention and intervention strategies.

Media & Youth: A Developmental Perspective provides a comprehensive review and critique of the research and theoretical literature related to media effects on infants, children, and adolescents, with a unique emphasis on development.

Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem.

A uniquely detailed study of child development theory and practice in the post–World War II era Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children’s early development.

Rosemary Deem provides students with a concise introduction to a range of issues and debates surrounding work, unemployment and leisure in contemporary societies.

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.

With an array of critical and engaging pedagogical features, the fifth edition of Motor Learning and Control for Practitioners offers the best practical introduction to motor learning available.

This book explores ways that the development of reasoning skills and the development of creativity impact one another.

Everything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn't realize you needed to ask.

This important new book explores the relationship between personality and development from a life-course perspective.

Thousands of practitioners and students have relied on this handbook, now thoroughly revised, for authoritative information on the links between psychological and medical issues from infancy through adolescence.

Every picture tells a story, and stories have the power to educate.

This book presents groundbreaking strategies for psychotherapy with today's teens, for whom high-risk behavior, lack of adult guidance, and intense anxiety and stress increasingly come with the territory.

This is the 33rd volume in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology held in October 2002.

Learn to Think Critically and Make Better DecisionsAddiction professionals make decisions everyday that impact peoples lives.

"e;The authors"e; choice of key elements results in a book that provides knowledge essential for beginning counselors to learn and for experienced counselors to reviewO.

Safe, nurturing, and positive parent-child interactions lay the foundations for healthy child development.

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

Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to describing, understanding, and explaining change in behavior across the lifespan and the psychological, environmental, and biological processes that co-determine this change during the organism's development.

This edited volume explores the intersections of the human, nonhuman, transhuman, and posthuman from a phenomenological perspective.

This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family upheavals, violence in the school or community, and other traumatic events.

Chronic shyness can pose a serious threat to a child's academic, emotional, and social development.

Volume 25 of The Annals is a timely reprise on developmental, psychotherapeutic, and forensic issues that enter into the evaluation and treatment of adolescents.

What does it mean to find a gene or set of genes that are associated with ADHD, schizophrenia, or autism?

The definitive reference in the field--now significantly revised with 75% new material--this volume examines typical and atypical development from birth to the preschool years and identifies what works in helping children and families at risk.

A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents.

First published in 1983.