Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework (LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating the work of the health and human service professions.

This book studies the psychology surrounding the development of owning and sharing in humans across different cultures.

Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children, The Positive Parenting Handbook is a concise, straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas.

The first volume to showcase science-based interventions that have been demonstrated effective in promoting attachment security, this is a vital reference and clinical guide for practitioners.

This textbook includes the latest knowledge and advances for a comprehensive range of disorders, including the management of benign and malignant sinonasal tumours.

Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior.

This pragmatic guide spells out how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context.

Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy.

Aktuelle Studien belegen, dass Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit Gefühlen einen wesentlichen Risikofaktor für die Entwicklung psychischer Auffälligkeiten, wie z.

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Despite a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of adolescent parenting, minimal attention has been given to investigating systematic changes in adolescent mothers' and their children's psychological functioning over time.

This book examines the science and practice of character strengths as the backbone for understanding, studying, and applying positive interventions across a wide range of disabilities.

It is usual to consider the effects parents have on children; this title, originally published in 1977, reverses the focus and reveals a subject every bit as important and interesting.

This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars.

Philippe Rochat's FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness.

Contains questions and exercises which examine all aspects of communication disorders and give readers practice at analysing clinical linguistic data.

This book considers how a young child becomes a member of culture through the practices and procedures of everyday conversation.

On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists.

This accessible book offers essential guidance and practical ideas for Early Years staff to support children with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

What methodologies within the behavioral sciences have clinical application for the diagnosis and management of high risk and handicapped infants?

Countless studies have demonstrated the power of early intervention to permanently alter the course of a child's life.

Every interaction with a young person who is struggling is an opportunity for change.

This book addresses the question of whether or not behavioural differences between children can be most appropriately characterised by dimensions of psychological problems or by categorical diagnoses.

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied.

Wie entwickeln sich Menschen über die Erwachsenenlebensspanne hinweg betrachtet?

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates.

In On the Genesis of Thought and Language, linguist Alexey Koshelev explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a child before words, the genesis of language, and why there are so many languages.

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After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this?

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary and global overview of evidence-based sexuality education (SE) programs and practices.

Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was one of the most eminent and prolific psychologists of the 20th century.

In this volume, the reader will find a host of fresh perspectives.

Advancements in research in psychological science have afforded great insights into how our minds work.

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.

This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity.

Research on physical maturity has demonstrated conclusively that the assumption of an age-homogenous development does not always hold true.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

An analysis, critique and evaluation of Vygotsky''s ideas based on close readings of primary and secondary sources.

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects.

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities.

This book presents children's literature as a platform for learning and helping young readers develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to thrive in an interconnected and diverse global society.

This volume explores and integrates research on creativity across domains to address whether creativity is a general or domain-specific ability.

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their livesnow updated for todays social media age.