Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult-but also one of the most common-factors in the destruction of any relationship.

What is the nature of children's social life in school?

This book addresses guidance and counselling needs of children and adolescents in school settings.

This classic volume provides a solid foundation for thinking about creative ways in which our society can work to prevent or minimize destructive couple conflict and enhance couples' abilities to constructively handle their differences.

Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis represents a convergence of three lines of emphasis now visible in developmental research and theory building.

This book examines the modern pandemic of online child sexual exploitation (OCSE).

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

First Published in 1986.

Dieses Buch vermittelt psychologisch fundiertes Wissen und praxisrelevante Handlungsstrategien für die Gestaltung des Unterrichts und pädagogischer Situationen außerhalb des Unterrichts.

This highly accessible book presents clear steps for helping children and adolescents to develop and test out new solutions to specific social, emotional, or behavioral challenges.

A classic introduction to the fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, now in full colour and including the latest research updates.

Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the research of creativity as an individual difference in second language acquisition forward at multiple levels.

This book portrays an extensive and intensive discussion of theories and research that refer to Vygotsky's and Feuerstein's theories of mediated learning and their effects on learning potential and cognitive modifiability.

Environmental gerontology - the research on aging and environment - evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people.

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Pena (1942-2021).

This 2002 book provides descriptions of adolescence in eight very different regions of the world.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics provides a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of neurocognitive and neurobiological scientific research about learning second or additional languages.

Understanding Tourette Syndrome provides accessible, concise, evidence-based guidelines on this neurodevelopmental disorder, offering parents and professionals a deeper scientific understanding of the condition and its consequences.

This book explores the mysteries of the human brain and the potential of the mind.

Innovative Skills to Support Well-Being and Resiliency in Youth emphasizes the step-by-step procedures readers will need to implement evidence-based, innovative techniques and skills that emphasize well-being and resilience in youth.

What are the changes we see over the life-span?

Highly readable and comprehensive, this volume explores the significance of friendship for social, emotional, and cognitive development from early childhood through adolescence.

This book, drawing from internationally renowned scales like Bayley and Gesell, develops a child developmental assessment scale based on research data from Chinese children.

Assessment, intervention and living with children who are looked after or adopted all require an understanding of psychology and its application.

Guided Cognition for Learning: Unsupervised Learning and the Design of Effective Homework details a new instructional design approach called Guided Cognition where homework tasks are designed to guide learners to engage in specific, observable cognitive events that are hypothesized to elicit underlying theoretical cognitive processes that result in learning.

This book does exactly what it says on the tin!

Archie has stolen Charlie's prize hat - the race is on to get it back.

Der Band liefert in 14 Kapiteln einen gut verständlichen Überblick über die Entwicklungspsychologie im Kindes- und Jugendalter.

The first part of the book offers a survey of current approaches to the development of moral reasoning: those of Freud, ego psychology, Piaget and Kohlberg.

Human Service Organizations (HSO) are groups, both public and private with one main goal, to enhance human well-being.

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function.

Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop.

This is a classic edition of Andrew Ellis' acclaimed introduction to the scientific study of reading, writing and dyslexia, which now includes a new introduction from the author.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to cognitive development in childhood and adolescence.

This innovative and thought-provoking book integrates both new, authored material and reprints of existing literature that, together, provide a compelling narrative that reveals the fatally flawed science associated with genetic reductionist accounts of human behavior and development.

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is increasingly recognised as a highly effective way of helping children with autistic spectrum disorders.

EMDR Therapy is a psychotherapy approach based on standard procedures and protocols.

The third edition of With Literacy and Justice for All: Rethinking the Social in Language and Education continues to document Carole Edelsky's long involvement with socially critical, holistic approaches to the everyday problems and possibilities facing teachers of language and literacy.

Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology.

The book demonstrates the hopeful stance the young take in response to ordinary suffering and significant trauma when adults talk with them about their losses.

This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.

Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Towards Technological Advances and Service Innovations coincides with the 25th International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) Congress in Dubai from December 5-9, 2022.

Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the field's leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current issues in the study of cognitive and neural mechanisms that take patterns of air vibrations and turn them 'magically' into meaning.

Originally published in 1982.

Musical Creativities in Practice explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs.

In my estimation Giftedness 101 ranks high among authoritative texts devoted to this particular population of children.

The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society.

This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.

Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages.