Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Second edition, completely revised and updatedJohn Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century.

This book offers a theoretical and epistemological-methodological framework as an alternative approach to the instrumental-descriptive methodology that has prevailed in psychology to date.

In der Forschung wurde Jugendsexualität lange fast ausschließlich aus der Problemperspektive untersucht.

Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology brings together leading scholars in the field to provide fresh theoretical perspectives on research in philosophy and psychology.

Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult.

This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe.

The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence.

Scott Shannon is an MD, president elect of the American Holistic Medical Association, and considered a national expert on holistic psychiatry.

Designed to provide practical information to those who are concerned with the development of young children, this book has three goals.

Understanding child development through the prism of the Five Elements adds an exciting new dimension to western thinking on the nurture of children.

Many individuals worldwide initiate sexual activity during their adolescent and young adult (AYA) years and are in need of safe and effective contraceptive services.

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning.

Wie verändert die digitale Welt unsere Beziehungen?

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking').

Countless children throughout the world grow up without fathers.

An increasing number of families around the world are now living apart from one another, subsequently causing the defining and redefining of their relationships, roles within the family unit, and how to effectively maintain a sense of familial cohesion through distance.

Reflecting author ,gdem Kagit,asi's influential work over the last two decades, this new edition examines human development, the self, and the family in a cultural context.

When deciding what to do, is it best to treat one's own interests as more important than the interests of others, others' interests as more important than one's own, or one's own and others' interests as equally important?

The first love in our lives is our mother.

Appropriate for use in developmental research methods or analysis of change courses, this is the first methods handbook specifically designed to meet the needs of those studying development.

Many parents delight in their child's imaginary companion as evidence of a lively imagination and creative mind.

This accessible, informative book will help teachers, parents, and practitioners make sense of current issues and controversies surrounding childhood disabilities.

It sometimes seems that it is difficult to pick up a current newspaper or a magazine without it containing a story about some behavioral characteristic for which it has been found that a gene is responsible.

Diese Arbeit bringt nicht nur die Schule mit der psychischen Entwicklung von Jugendlichen in Verbindung, sie ist zugleich das Ergebnis einer interdiszip- nären Herangehensweise an ein aktuelles Forschungsthema.

This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling.

Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) benefit from a positive, affirming support of their individuality.

How children's thinking develops and how it can be developed in education are among the most important questions in psychology.

Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students provides a research-informed, systematic approach for using cooperative multiplayer video games as tools for teaching collaborative social skills and building social connections.

Written by experienced clinicians, this book provides an exploration of how educators can easily use Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) to help vulnerable pupils to thrive.

The number of homeschooling families has grown in recent years, along with the number of methods for learning at home.

Explore how the peer relationship and extracurricular organized activities like sports, the arts, and community-based organizations influence academic functioning, social development, and problem behavior.

The second edition of this successful handbook, edited by well-known experts in this field, includes core questions in the field of child abuse and neglect.

How can we account for the sudden appearance of such dazzling artists and scientists as Mozart, Shakespeare, Darwin, or Einstein?

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context.

Social relationships play a central role in the evolution and development of human culture and cognition.

In a rapidly changing world, children have more of a voice than ever before.

Originally published in 1983, this cross-national study had three aims.

This wide-ranging volume presents an in-depth picture of adolescent sexuality and behavior.

When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her.

Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict examines how fundamental, universal animal drives, such as dominance/prevalence, survival, kinship, and "e;profit"e; (greed, advantage, whether of material or social nature), provide the basis for the evolutionary trap that promotes the unstable, conflictive, dominant-prone individual and group human behaviours.

In this book, an international group of leading scientists present perspectives on the control of human behavior, awareness, consciousness, and the meaning and function of perceived control or self-efficacy in people's lives.

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.

This volume brings together interdisciplinary research, theoretical perspectives, and detailed explanations of examples to help colleges become supportive spaces for pregnant and parenting students.

This series, Children's Language, reflects the conviction that extensive work on entirely new fronts along with a great deal of reinterpretation of old-front data will be necessary before any persuasive and truly orderly account of language development can be assembled.

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span.

This instructive clinical resource has given thousands of clinicians and students essential skills for evaluating infants through adolescents with any type of mental health issue.

Asking students to write journals that reflect on their learning has become a widespread pedagogical practice in recent years.

Articles appear frequently about individuals whose age is noted as a feature of their activism, but the activism of seniors as a growing and influential part of the population is often otherwise overlooked.