Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

The Deja vu Experience, Second Edition covers the latest scientific discoveries regarding the strange sense of familiarity most of us have felt at one time or another when doing something for the first time.

The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in psychology, archaeology, and anthropology.

Originally published in 1996, and now with a new preface, Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focusing on development.

This book studies the exclusion and discrimination that is meted out to Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian Higher Education system, and the psychosocial consequences of such practices.

This volume provides an overview of cognitive science and critically assess areas within the topic that are evolving rapidly.

Diagnosis, Management and Modeling of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Neuroscience of Development is a comprehensive reference on the diagnosis and management of neurodevelopment and associated disorders.

By traveling to different parts of the world, this book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the current state of adolescent education and demonstrates how education systems are formed by and closely tied to culture.

Meet the anger gremlin: a troublesome pest whose favourite meal is your anger, and the more he eats the angrier you get!

Cultural Complexes of Latin America: South and the Soul explores the theory and embodied reality that cultural complexes are powerful determinants in the attitudes, behaviour, and emotional life of individuals and groups.

This book is a Machine-Generated Literature Overview of personal EI development.

The youth of the world are our most important assets.

Das Lobo-Kindergartenprogramm dient der Förderung der phonologischen Bewusstheit, die als eine der zentralen Vorläuferfähigkeiten für den Einstieg in den Lese- und Schriftspracherwerb gilt.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

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.

Every teacher knows them: bright students who face learning difficulties that interfere with their ability to shine at school.

Building Language using LEGO(R) Bricks is a flexible and powerful intervention tool designed to aid children with severe receptive and expressive language disorders, often related to autism and other special educational needs.

Featuring excerpts of essays collected from over one thousand young adults while in the throes of divorce, this book paints a picture of the pain and the hope shown by the storytellers.

Handbook of Adolescent Development fills a gap in the literature on adolescent development and behaviour: all of the authors of the various chapters were invited to include as many findings on European adolescents as possible.

Human beings have the most immature newborn and longest maturational schedule of any animal.

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

This comprehensive overview presents cutting-edge research on the fast-expanding field of interpersonal perception.

Jean Piaget is one of the greatest names in psychology.

This book is a study of infant mental health which blends knowledge and understanding from three perspectives: international research, theory, and intervention.

This volume provides a unique and valuable contribution to our understanding of the impact of stressful life events and mass trauma on the person, the culture and society in the course of the life span.

Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education: A Training Module is a resource designed to help pre-service and in-service early childhood educators, including infant-toddler caregivers, understand the role of culture in their programs.

First published in 1986.

This book discusses the significance of social geography, a multidimensional sub-discipline of georgraphy encompassing social health, social security and social ethos.

This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives.

Tasked chiefly with providing effective instruction, classroom teachers must also manage student behavior.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

On the back of their last book, Cyber-risk and Youth, and building on a new research project, Adorjan and Ricciardelli marshal current research to explore parenting in the digital age.

Despite growing attention to the importance of grit and other character traits for achievement, developing them in students rarely finds its way into secondary school curricula.

They were children.

This book champions care education in early childhood school contexts, addressing the critical need for an effective and meaningful ethics education grounded in Platonic and Aristotelian reflections on virtues, and ultimately positing a theory of ethics education that connects ancient philosophy to contemporary care thinking.

Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Seventh Edition, reviews and synthesizes recent findings and discoveries in the field.

Offering a unique focus on the development of human communication, this book integrates and synthesizes a more comprehensive array of research than most investigations of communicative development.

This book addresses the ongoing scientific debates regarding video games and their effects on players.

This is Liam.

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-service, novice, and practicing teachers, as well as for teacher educators who seek to develop their professional knowledge and skills.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of child abuse and neglect globally in general terms and with empirical evidence from Puducherry, India.

If mathematics is the purest form of knowledge, the perfect foundation of all the hard sciences, and a uniquely precise discipline, then how can the human brain, an imperfect and imprecise organ, process mathematical ideas?

At its best, educational television can provide children with enormous opportunities and can serve as a window to new experiences, enrich academic knowledge, enhance attitudes and motivation, and nurture social skills.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

'This is an extraordinary and exciting book, the work of a truly original and creative psychoanalytic theoretician and most astute clinician.

Das Thema Resilienz und die Förderung von Schutzfaktoren hat in den Human- und Gesundheitswissenschaften in den letzten Jahren – verbunden mit dem Paradigmenwechsel von der Defizit- zur Ressourcenorientierung bzw.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 is the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology.

How do teenagers with Asperger Syndrome view themselves and their own lives?