Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Our abilities to learn and remember are at the core of consciousness, cognition, and identity, and are based on the fundamental brain capacity to encode and store perceptual experience in abiding neural structures.

This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children.

The Cheeky Ostrich is the fifth book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.

Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.

Bronze Medal Winner in the Picture Books, Early Reader category of the 2015 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year AwardsOnce upon a time there was a Princess.

Originally published in 1993, this monograph addresses a central problem in Piaget's work, which is the temporal construction of necessary knowledge.

Conducting International Research and Service Collaborations: Tips, Threats, and Triumphs provides academic researchers, as well as non-profit and private professionals, with much-needed guidance on how to plan, implement, and manage international research and intervention projects.

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories.

This book provides research-based insights that deepen and broaden current understandings of the nature of reading.

Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story.

This volume advocates an optimistic new conceptual and practical approach to adulthood, aging, and education for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) across the lifespan.

The use of technology and teaching techniques derived from technology is currently a bourgeoning topic in higher education.

This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates well the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa.

How do people develop in their important relationships?

This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development.

The role of the father in a family and for his children has varied greatly throughout history.

Asian Parenting provides a comprehensive and scholarly discussion of the distinct features, meanings, and implications for human development of contemporary Asian parenting, beyond Western theoretical frameworks.

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.

Shows how self psychology allows child patients who were in the past often considered difficult and even untreatable to be understood and effectively helped.

This book presents evidence that children are the real experts of their lives.

Presents the foundations for understanding gerontology.

Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years.

This volume is a compilation of articles that shed light on psychopathology, how the one struggling with it experiences its implications, and how it affects everyday life.

In this volume and its companion Adolescence and Breakdown, originally published in 1975, members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, together with other leading experts on the subject, present a unique study of adolescence.

First published in 1987.

This lively and engaging book conducts a thorough review of the current research literature in developmental psychology and socialisation, and then clearly links theory to practical applications in both clinical and everyday situations.

Entwicklung findet nicht nur im Kindes- und Jugendalter, sondern über die gesamte Lebensspanne hinweg statt.

The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped what it means to be a European citizen.

Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood in Ukraine examines the factors that influence emotional development of young people between 4 and 17 years old.

The area of animal counting has historically been the subject of a long and colorful debate, but only more recently have systematic, more rigorous experimental efforts to evaluate numerical abilities in animals been undertaken.

Learning disabilities (LDs) remain one of the least understood and most debated disabling conditions that affect children.

The Clinician's Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder brings together a wealth of experts on pediatric and adolescent OCD, providing novel cognitive behavioral strategies and considerations that therapists can immediately put into practice.

One of the "e;Best Books of 2011"e; from the Center for Optimal Adult DevelopmentThe fields of adult development and the study of learning have traditionally been considered separate, with development falling under psychology and learning under education.

It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers.

In the past 20 years, the progressive uncovering of child sexual abuse in institutional settings has reverberated across the globe with simultaneous investigations across Europe and the English-speaking world.

In So the Witch Won't Eat Me Bloch draws on 25 years of psychoanalytic practice.

This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting.

'Heat breaks up charcoal and puts sulphur dioxide in'; 'The air pulls faster on heavy masses.

"e;This book builds upon my early work and the work and others by offering a comprehensive guide to practitioners interested in facing and helping to heal trauma and manage the drama systemically with a special focus on children and adolescents.

School Success for Kids With ADHD offers parents and teachers the support they need to ensure that children with attention deficits build on their strengths, circumvent their weaknesses, and achieve to their fullest potential.

It aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence.

This book presents original research examining parents' perspectives on the structure, content and delivery of parenting programmes.

There has been a burgeoning of interest in the relation between biological development--particularly brain development--and behavioral development.

By age 16, significant - one might even say "e;alarming"e; - numbers of students are demonstrating signs of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers.

This essential book offers an accessible, evidence-based guide to Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD) informed by the most current research, and clinical and educational practice.

This book investigates the most common approach to assessing behavior in youth development.

Tom Whitman proposes a new developmental theory of autism that focuses on the diversity of characteristics associated with this disorder, and how these develop over time.