Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary, critical, and global overview of evidence-based parenting education (PEd) programs.

Tony Attwood's guide will assist parents and professionals with the identification, treatment and care of both children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome.

This new standout volume is the first to describe developmental areas associated with social competence and social communication, as well as provide evidence-based information on effective assessment and intervention for children who have problems with social communication and social interactions.

What is the meaning of time?

Originally published in 1928, Difficulties in Child Development was written, according to the author, as 'a response to many inquiries concerning a source of practical information relating to the development and upbringing of little children from a modern psychological standpoint.

Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death.

Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child.

Language is of central importance in children's development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond.

Historically, there has been little integration of theoretical or applied research on addiction treatment and parenting intervention development.

A collection of accessible and scientifically proven strategies for parents struggling with school attendance problems in children of all ages.

This scholarly yet highly readable and practical text systematically covers the importance, development, assessment, and treatment of social skills of children and adolescents.

Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research is a re-turn to a large-scale, international project on children's digital play.

Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders.

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

In this innovative book on autism and gaze from a multimodal interaction perspective, Terhi Korkiakangas examines the role of gaze in everyday situations, asking why eye contact matters, and considering the implications of this crucial question for autism.

This book is an ideal introduction to work in psychology and the neurosciences.

Do traditions contribute to children's spirituality?

Originally published in 1996.

This book provides an in-depth insight into what is currently known and relatively unknown about youths' online peer engagement.

Anxiety in children diminishes their intellectual, emotional and social development, as well as physical health.

Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency.

This second edition of the handbook gives a new scientific perspective to youth and childhood studies as multi scientific and interdisciplinary subjects which as such have not yet found their own framing in a particular discipline.

This volume is the outcome of an international symposium held in Berlin, FRG, which brought together researchers in the field of infant development.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the challenges adolescents face and the self-regulation tools that most effectively ease the transition to adulthood.

This book offers a unique glimpse into the startlingly complex world of acute children's psychiatry through 12 chapters, each inspired by the actual visit of a child in psychiatric crisis to one of the most well-known psychiatric emergency rooms in the nation.

The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact.

Originally published in 1986, the impetus for this volume developed from a conference organized by Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and the editors on behalf of the Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology, the Society of the Study of Social Biology, and the Center for Studies of Mental Health of Aging at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Potty training a child with developmental disorders can be a real challenge, and sometimes the extra difficulties make you feel as though you've tried everything, and failed.

In hospitals in the 1970s there was considerable variation in the nature of hospital environments experienced by newborns and their parents.

This book offers a head-to-toe look at the health concerns most pertinent to teens and young adults as well as what they can do to safeguard their health.

Do the emotional responses of students and to traumatic conflict constitute insurmountable obstacles in peace education efforts?

It's time to transform everyday life with a toddler for the better.

This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internationally renowned figure, whose untimely death left a void in the fields of socio-developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and research into social representations.

Rick is hungry, but his carrot has disappeared!

Using both scientific and feminist approaches in its analysis, Sex and Gender: A Biopsychological Approach provides a current and comprehensive understanding of its titular topics, making it an invaluable textbook for instructors and students.

Whereas adoption was once a private affair cloaked in secrecy and sealed records, adoptions in the US today are increasingly open - that is, birth and adoptive families meet and become acquainted before the adoption, and remain in contact once it is complete.

This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement.

This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like.

This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child.

This is a rich and positive description of how it feels to be autistic and how friends, family and the professionals that work with autistic people can be more sensitive to their needs.

In den westlichen Industrienationen leiden etwa 20 Prozent aller Kinder und Jugendlichen unter mindestens einer chronischen somatischen Erkrankung.

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence.

Makes the case that the social dynamics and turbulence of high school can disrupt educational trajectories after high school.

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 54 shares the latest research on the interactions between families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and service delivery systems.

Published in August of 2008, WAIS-IV is the most widely used intelligence test for adults in the world.

Debates about methods of supporting language development and academic skills of deaf or hard-of-hearing children have waxed and waned for more than 100 years: Will using sign language interfere with learning to use spoken language or does it offer optimal access to communication for deaf children?