Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book is about bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to carry out the hard work of interpreting and translating to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world--between minority and majority communities.

Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology, sociology, and gender studies.

Simplifying a complex subject.

Rethinking Retirement for Positive Ageing is a practical guide that shows you how to make retirement successful, based on the most up-to-date research available.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior.

This accessible guide introduces neuroscience, demystifying terminology and language and increasing the knowledge, skills and, importantly, confidence of anyone interested in brain development in early childhood.

When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis.

The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at the 23rd Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition.

This book examines the complex impact of prenatal stress and the mechanism of its transmission on children's development and well-being, including prenatal programming, epigenetics, infl ammatory processes, and the brain-gut microbiome.

This volume presents a systematic examination of the impact of social structures on individual behaviors and on their development in adulthood and old age.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to try to answer the question of how do we, as human beings, go from the socially neutral linguistic act of discriminating external stimuli to the socially loaded act of promoting social discrimination though language?

Personality pathology, which is characterized by a pervasive, maladaptive, and inflexible pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, has long been considered a set of categories that are distinct from each other and from "e;normal"e; personality.

Breaking new ground in the areas of attachment and child development, Sue Jennings introduces the concept of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play' exploring the sensory experiences that take place between mother and child during pregnancy and the first few months after birth.

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state transitions or events.

The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.

The school-to-work transition is a critical part of the human life-span for young adults, their families, and society.

Sieben Schritte, wie man die Freude bewahren, wiederfinden und aus der Freude seelische Kraft schöpfen kann.

Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs.

Maureen F.

The Aging Mind offers an accessible introduction to what research has revealed about how our bodies and brains age, and how these changes affect our everyday experiences and lives.

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today.

Social interaction is an important aspect of everyday life and its success (or lack of) impacts heavily on our wellbeing.

In Neurology of Autism, Mary Coleman, Catalina Betancur, G.

This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children's learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur.

This second edition of the handbook gives a new scientific perspective to youth and childhood studies as multi scientific and interdisciplinary subjects which as such have not yet found their own framing in a particular discipline.

Selbstmanagement kann ausgesprochen lustvoll sein, wenn es sich konsequent an persönlichen Ressourcen orientiert.

Originally published in 1992.

The authors have grouped the theories into three classical "e;families"e; which differ in their views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature.

This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure.

Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies brings together recent critical investigations which examine historical and textual inaccuracies associated with received understandings of Vygotsky's work.

Do the emotional responses of students and to traumatic conflict constitute insurmountable obstacles in peace education efforts?

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.

There is a growing realization that many adolescents with hearing loss require special attention.

If you have a child on the autism spectrum who struggles with the challenges of daily life, then this book is for you!

This book brings together researchers from different fields, traditions and perspectives to examine the ways in which place and space might (be) unsettle(d).

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably.

Raising a child is overwhelming, thrilling, exhausting, terrifying, and joyous--and all at the same time.

Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern societies could not function if their citizens could not read and write.

The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study.

This book reviews evidence-based, multi-tiered practices for promoting social-emotional learning (SEL) with typically developing students as well as those with special needs.

This book provides a broad international perspective on the psychological trauma faced by children and adolescents exposed to major disasters, and on the local public health response to their needs.

Executive Function: Development Across the Life Span presents perspectives from leading researchers and theorists on the development of executive function from infancy to late adulthood and the factors that shape its growth and decline.

The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.

Illustrates how domain theory may be used as a basis for social and moral education.

Coming of Age in U.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die relevanten Grundlagen der Psychologie für die Studiengänge Erziehungswissenschaften / Pädagogik sowie Soziale Arbeit.

This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the impact of human-animal interaction on well-being from childhood to later life.

This book introduces Unitary Developmental Theory (UDT) to the field of psychology.