Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Thinking about the Teaching of Thinking provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Feuerstein's theory of Mediated Learning Experience and its related tools and programmes.

Children and Adolescent's Experiences of Violence and Abuse at Home is a unique book that explores some of the main controversies and challenges within the field.

This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binary, and scalar), helping readers to understand regression models fully and to apply them in their work.

As a result, this volume will appeal to researchers and professionals alike.

This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities.

This book considers communication development during the first 18 months of life of infants and summarizes the extensive literature about early parent-infant interactions.

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives.

In a world where the global engagement and international dialogue intensifies, some areas of cultivated knowledge suffer from this dialogue and this has consequences for people and communities.

Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health.

Identifying athletic talent and developing that talent to its full potential is a central concern in sport.

Adolescence can be a difficult time for all concerned.

Who am I?

Offering an important addition to existing critiques of governance feminism and carceral expansion based mainly on experiences from the Global North, this book critically addresses feminist law reform on violence against women, from a decolonial perspective.

Coercive interactions and conflict are commonplace in close relationships and families, friendships, and teacher-student relationships in schools.

We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, "e;beyond words"e; so to speak, and isolating.

A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object.

Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time.

This book provides teens with an accessible introduction to counseling, psychotherapy, and other related services.

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development.

This book brings together the work of researchers from around the globe around the topic of children's first transitions to early care and education.

This book focuses on those nursing skills that are truly valued and needed by children and young people with mental health problems.

Originally published in 1996, and now with a new preface, Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focusing on development.

This comprehensive guide offers a rich introduction to research methods, experimental design and data analysis techniques in developmental science, emphasizing the importance of an understanding of this area of psychology for any student or researcher interested in examining development across the lifespan.

Understanding and applying psychology within youth sport settings is key to maximising young athletes' enjoyment, wellbeing, and sporting performance.

Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade.

Originally published in 1935, Testing Children's Development from Birth to School Age highlighted the greatly increased interest in measuring the development of pre-school children by other means than the older, inadequate "e;intelligence tests"e;.

Decades of research indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture.

Ben the bear loves to blow bubbles, but what happens when he tries to blow the biggest bubble in the world?

Short-term or working memory - the capacity to hold and manipulate information mentally over brief periods of time - plays an important role in supporting a wide range of everyday activities, particularly in childhood.

What distinguishes humankind from other species?

Part of the Reading Well scheme.

Dealing with Disputes and Conflict: A Self-Help Tool-Kit for Resolving Arguments in Everyday Life offers accessible and practical strategies and solutions to guide untrained mediators and readers on effective ways to resolve disputes and conflict, across a wide range of dispute contexts.

Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, this book explores how material and metaphoric borders give way to young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change.

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable.

The main goal of this volume is to present, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on emotion regulation.

Die Entwicklungspsychologie und die Pädagogische Psychologie haben eine bewegte Geschichte.

Reporting on the findings from a study of young people across 11 different world locations (Australia, Mainland China, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, The Philippines, Poland, Spain, and Taiwan), A Global Perspective of Young Adolescents' Peer Aggression and Well-being looks beyond bullying to assess the harm to mental health and well-being of young people experiencing peer aggression in all its forms.

Presenting cutting-edge work from leading scholars, this authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge on aggression from infancy through adolescence.

Nowadays, it is widely accepted that there is no single influence (be it nature or nurture) on cognitive development.

The traditional production measure of moral judgment has been the Moral Judgment Interview (MJI), which uses hypothetical moral dilemmas to elicit moral judgment.

This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being.

The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today.

This volume explores the transition to parenthood from a holistic developmental approach, relating to barriers such as fertility problems and traumatic childbirth, as well as pathways such as positive experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.

This monograph presents a contemporary examination of climate anxiety within schools.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Traditionally, the subject of adolescent development has been explored using a stage based approach, often with an emphasis on the potential risks and problems of adolescence.