Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital.

The literature relating to the work of Piaget is large and still growing.

When I organized a symposium on the development of nonverbal behavior for the 1980 meeting ofthe American Psychological Association, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches.

This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection.

The Abilities and Achievements of Orientals in North America is concerned with the study of the abilities, achievements, and personality characteristics of oriental immigrants and their descendants in North America.

Das Schulcoaching SCEP richtet sich an Fachkräfte, die Lehrpersonen im Umgang mit expansiv-auffälligen Schülerinnen und Schülern, v.

This book reviews research on creative growth across the lifespan and modalities in creative facilitation for researchers and practitioners.

This authoritative work brings together leading play therapists to describe state-of-the-art clinical approaches and applications.

The Oxford Handbook of Metamemory investigates the human ability to evaluate and control learning and information retrieval processes.

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents' choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected.

Motor Learning in Practice explores the fundamental processes of motor learning and skill acquisition in sport, and explains how a constraints-led approach can be used to design more effective learning environments for sports practice and performance.

From Birth to Five Years, based on the pioneering work of Mary Sheridan, is widely regarded as the go-to reference for health, education and social care professionals, or anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children.

Time is an abducted child's worst enemy.

The biopsychosocial study of Arab Americans yields compelling insights into innovative theoretical and applied initiatives.

All parents want their children to be successful, but success is not just about giving your kids praise or setting them on the right direction.

Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically.

Throughout her entire career, Judge Polier continually fought for the rights and needs of the poor.

This fresh and dynamic book offers a thorough investigation into the development of the cognitive processes that underpin judgements about mental states (often termed 'theory of mind') and addresses specific issues that have not been adequately dealt with in the past, and which are now being raised by some of the most prominent researchers in the field.

'By following the advice in these pages, you won't just be helping your child overcome obstacles in reading or writing; you'll be cultivating a deeper bond, one rooted in understanding, empathy, and shared determination.

Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use.

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it.

This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phonetic techniques in disordered speech analysis.

Volume 46 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in this area.

First published in 1974.

Muffin is a quirky little fish full of fun ideas.

Noah hat sich in seinem abgedunkelten Zimmer verschanzt, wie schon so oft seit der Sache am Baggersee.

From a preeminent researcher, this book looks at the key role of joint attention in both typical and atypical development.

Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), this warm and accessible book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children's interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with NLD and how to discuss NLD with children.

The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory.

This revolutionary book explores theoretical and practical issues of listening to children, families, and professionals who advocate for and work with young children to promote social justice and improve their lives, and to ensure no one is left behind.

As an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP), you have to think on your feet, manage a caseload, deal with emotional distress and try and not get indigestion as you cram down a sandwich on your way to your next session.

This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction.

This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology.

The youth of the world are our most important assets.

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control.

The second edition of Screenwise offers a refreshed, realistic, and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age.

This book examines the cultural concepts that guided the development of the "e;age of mankind"e;- the changes that took place in historical, philosophical, scientific, religious, literary, and artistic thought in the 20th century.

This book demonstrates and explicates the work of scholars and practitioners who are exploring the interconnectedness of racial and ethnic identity scholarship to human development in order to promote successful pedagogical practices and services.

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people's social exchanges than has been available in the past.

This 32nd volume of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology celebrates the 75th anniversary of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development.

This volume provides systematic, interdisciplinary, and intercultural impulses for a phenomenological pedagogy of emotions, feelings, and moods without subordinating them to the logocentric dualism of emotion and rationality.

While it is often assumed that behavioral development must be based upon both physical law and the biological principles of morphogenesis and selection, forging a link between these phenomena has remained an elusive goal.

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition.

Researching Families and Children: Culturally Appropriate Methods highlights methodological issues that arise while conducting research on human development in India.

This thorough revision of the highly successful first edition of Life-Span Development offers the reader a wide-ranging and thought provoking account of human development throughout the lifespan.

This book offers the core conceptual base for the practice of T-Group facilitation.

This book examines current trends and practices in social skills instruction for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), focusing on empirical support of current practices and for which populations such practices have been most frequently evaluated (e.