Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers.

In Zeiten von multiplen Krisen wie der Klima- und Biodiversitätskrise, dem Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine, den Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie, Inflation und Energiekrise berichten Kinder und Jugendliche eine deutliche höhere psychische Belastung.

Written by experts in the field, School-Based Family Counseling: An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide focuses on how to make integrated School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC) interventions, with a focus on integrating schools and family interventions, in an explicit step-by-step manner.

Pediatric Brain Stimulation: Mapping and Modulating the Developing Brain presents the latest on this rapidly expanding field that has seen an exponential growth in publications over the past 10 years.

The history of attempts to raise the intelligence of mentally retarded individuals is wrought with controversy.

A comprehensive and practical guide to understanding the links between mental health and school attendance in children and young people.

Educational psychology applies psychological theories, ideas and methods to education and to understandings of teaching and learning, both in the classroom and beyond.

Technology Play and Brain Development brings together current research on play development, learning technology, and brain development.

Current research into the psychology of children's mathematics is extremely diverse.

When asking how cognition comes to take its mature form, learning seems to be an obvious factor to consider.

Death is not a mere possibility but a certainty for all of us.

Based on the analysis of eighteen authentic and inspiring personal stories, this book illustrates how people with severe childhood disabilities achieved extraordinary career success.

Integration von Körper, Geist und Seele- Hohe Nachfrage: Das Interesse am Körper ist aus der Psychotherapie nicht mehr wegzudenken- Umfassend: Geschichte, Metatheorie, kennzeichnende Einzeltheorien, Methodik sowie Anwendung und PraxeologieDieses Handbuch bietet die umfassendste Darstellung der Körperpsychotherapie und des körperpsychotherapeutischen Feldes.

It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is grounded in its shared nature.

Logical thinking is a critically important cognitive skill.

'A brilliant book' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A book that can show you how to change your behaviour' Evening StandardA child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later.

As the Baby Boomer cohort moves from middle to later adulthood, it is likely this generation will redefine what it means to age.

This updated study of sports and recreation utilizes the most current research, introducing the latest innovations and analyses in new chapters while revising and expanding chapters from the previous edition.

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Science depends on noticing that things which seem identical are different, and conversely.

This volume's unifying theme is the question: Is a concept of development relevant to art?

The literature relating to the work of Piaget is large and still growing.

Cybersecurity and Cognitive Science provides the reader with multiple examples of interactions between cybersecurity, psychology and neuroscience.

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern.

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In Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Xiaofei Lu comprehensively reviews empirical studies that employ corpus linguistic methods to investigate issues in second language variation, processing, production, and development.

This new book, Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary, edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a refreshing presentation of 10 related and not widely available articles that illustrate the role of processing instruction in second language acquisition.

When parents need guidance on raising gifted kids, they can turn to Success Strategies for Parenting Gifted Kids: Expert Advice From the National Association for Gifted Children.

This volume, originally published in 1979, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society (the North American association of research psychologists), commemorates the centennial of experimental psychology as a separate discipline - dated from the opening of Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory at Leipzig in 1879.

This innovative book integrates theory and practice in the teaching of contemporary life skills alongside and as part of language teaching that looks at the 'whole student'.

Published in 1983, New Trends in Conceptual Representation is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

This important source for students, researchers, advertisers and parents reviews the debates and presents new research about advertising to children.

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Seventh Edition, provides extensive reviews and critical evaluations of research on the social aspects of aging.

Racial and ethnic minority youth have less access to health care and experience health disparities that are  linked  to  social  determinants  that impact their  health  and  well-being.

This book, a result of a conference sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, explores developmental and clinical evidence of how divorce, and the transition to single parenting and stepparenting affects children.

Language as Cultural Practice:Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas.

The indispensable reference tool for the groundbreaking science of evolutionary psychology Why is the mind designed the way it is?

Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation.

Written in an engaging question-and-answer format, this accessible text synthesizes contemporary empirical research to provide a panoramic view of adolescent sexual development and behavior.

What are the patterns dominating women's lives today?

The number of children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level increased by 33 percent between 2000 and 2009, resulting in over 15 million children living in poverty.

This book examines state-of-the-science telemental health interventions for children and families.

This book explores how concepts and values of contemporary democracy are variously understood and applied in diverse cultural contexts, with a focus on children and childhood and diversity.

This book offers a critical examination of the ethical and moral challenges in conducting research about domestic abuse or sexual violence from the perspectives of studentpractitioners and novice researchers within various professional disciplines, offering rich insights based on the experiences of each author.

This handbook provides a substantive foundation of autism theory and research, including a comprehensive overview, conceptualization, and history of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and pervasive developmental disorder (PDD).