Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

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For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language.

One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time.

Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive development and learning.

Youth in Superdiverse Societiesbrings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, and acculturation in adolescence.

This book examines the five primary areas of the Collaborative Model for Promoting Competence and Success (COMPASS).

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What physical and psychological changes can I expect when going through the menopause?

Getting Old offers concise advice and practical suggestions for all readers interested in or worried about ageing, either in themselves or in someone they care about.

Child care is an integral part of the web of influences and experiences that shape children's development.

Gain a greater awareness of the processes involved in the dissemination of evidence-based interventions, as well as existing supports that help disseminate and sustain them.

Therapeutic deep play has the capacity for children to express deep emotions, overcome seemingly insurmountable issues and resolve serious problems.

Forms part of JKP's 'Helping Children to Improve Wellbeing and Resilience' seriesUsing a model of 'mindfulness play' to help children to achieve wellbeing, this book encourages children to build awareness of their inner and outer worlds.

Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings provides a better understanding of the way in which mental and physical well-being is affected by physical environments, along with insights into how the design of these environments might be improved to support better health outcomes.

Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.

This influential festschrift honours the legacy of Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a seminal thinker in the field of child development and a pioneer in developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Using Evidence to Advance Research, Practice, Policy, and Prevention defines ACEs, provides a summary of the past 20 years of ACEs research, as well as provides guidance for the future directions for the field.

Phil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking: Why do the crimes continue to happen?

Numerical Cognition: The Basics provides an understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that enable us to perceive, process, and memorize numerical information.

The intellectual development of human beings from birth to adulthood is a fascinating phenomenon.

The Psychology of Childhood to Maturity covers the significant discoveries made in process of applying psychology to the problems of life and the so-called "e;art of living.

Originally published in 1985, the chapters in this book were, with two exceptions, first prepared for and discussed at a monthly research seminar series on Hearing Loss in Adulthood during the 1983-1984 academic year.

Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents focuses on the multi-layered complex and dynamic area of trauma, loss and disrupted attachment on babies, children, adolescents and the systems around them.

Volume 45 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis.

This book focuses beyond the bully-victim dyad to highlight how bullying commonly unfolds within a complex system that involves many individuals interacting with one another.

Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of numerical representations and ideas as people participate in collective practices of daily life.

This special issue is a "e;how to"e; on overcoming the many systems-level challenges in K 12 public education to implement effective reading interventions for the vast numbers of students reading below grade level.

In the late 1980s, an increasing proportion of all prescribed medicines went to people over 65 years of age, not only because they constituted a growing sector of the population but also because their consumption rate, unlike that of younger people was increasing.

Current debates in life course studies increasingly reference theories of individualization, standardization, and differentiation in the structure of the life course.

Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years.

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills, Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having top 2% IQ.

The twentieth century will surely be remembered as a period of remarkable calamity, vigorous intellectual activity, and striking technological progress.

Bipolar spectrum disorders are characterized by severe mood dysregulation, rage, irritability, and depression, along with low self-esteem and interpersonal struggles.

This informative and easy to read book is an essential resource for parents, teachers, those new to the field, and people on the autism spectrum themselves.

Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare.

Clinicians working with traumatized youth face many challenges in supporting growth and development while addressing the many negative consequences of abuse and neglect.

Children face an overwhelming amount of information and a range of different choices every day, and so there has never been a more important time to understand how children learn to make judgments and decisions in our modern world.

Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.

Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment.

This comprehensive textbook offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the history of human development and family science.

Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS).

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issues.

This book is a complete guide to child development from birth to 16 years.

Das Praxishandbuch informiert prägnant und übersichtlich über die theoretischen Grundlagen und pathogenetischen Konzepte der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie.

This book explores how speech and language therapists can use a wide range of multi-modal therapy techniques to elicit speech sound.

This comprehensive collection of chapters is written by leading researchers in psycholinguistics from a wide array of subfields.

This edited collection is the first book of its kind to apply the theory, research, and teaching of Emotion Focused Therapy to youth and their families, equipping clinicians and students with the practical skills to facilitate individual, dyadic, and parent sessions confidently.