Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

What drives us to make decisions?

This book offers a unique perspective on clinical supervision, foregrounding experiential techniques, and a refreshing, playful approach to professional development.

This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

About a quarter of all democracies today legally oblige their citizens to vote, making this an important aspect of electoral systems in many settings.

Understanding Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiance Disorder offers parents, caregivers and practitioners a concise, accessible introduction to the science behind CD and ODD and popular treatments, together with practical advice on how to approach challenging behaviour.

The Autism Discussion Page blue book focuses on the core challenges associated with autism (cognitive, sensory, social, and emotional) and provides concise, accessible information and simple tools for supporting children with these vulnerabilities.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 56 is the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology.

This volume celebrates the work and influence of T.

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Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health professional (psychologist, licensed counselor, licensed social worker) who utilizes play therapy and who works with children and adolescents diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.

The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research.

This book is an essential clinician's guide to understanding, unpacking, treating, and healing individual, familial, and communal wounds associated with parental incarceration.

Adolescence is a period characterized by both increased susceptibility to risks and new-found strength to withstand them.

This volume brings together studies, research syntheses, and critical commentaries that examine play-literacy relationships from cognitive, ecological, and cultural perspectives.

Interest is just emerging as a critical bridge between cognitive and affective issues in both learning and development.

In the later stages of gestation, fetal functions undergo increasing change and development, preparing the fetus for the transition to its postnatal environment.

Now in a revised and updated second edition, Early Visual Skills is a practical manual for use with children and young people who have underdeveloped visual perceptual skills.

First published in 1985.

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience is a seminal reference work in the burgeoning field of developmental behavioral neuroscience, which has emerged in recent years as an important sister discipline to developmental psychobiology.

Originally published in 1985, the aim of this book was to examine the development of adaptive skills in a comparative context.

In this fully revised new edition, Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues summarises and analyses the most relevant research regarding father-daughter relationships, aiming to break down the persistent misconceptions regarding fatherhood and father-daughter relationships and encourage the reader to take a more objective and analytical approach.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding.

Thinking about the Teaching of Thinking provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Feuerstein's theory of Mediated Learning Experience and its related tools and programmes.

Co-enrollment programming in deaf education refers to classrooms in which a critical mass of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students is included in a classroom containing mainly hearing students and which is taught by both a mainstream teacher and a teacher of the deaf.

Der hypnotherapeutische Ansatz von Milton Erickson wurde immer wieder als strategische Therapie bezeichnet.

Aimed at school staff and other caregivers on the front lines of providing assistance without in-depth training or an understanding of how trauma manifests, this book offers a detailed approach to helping children who have experienced trauma.

Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning.

In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment.

The Classic Edition of this foundational text includes a new preface from Miguel Perez-Pereira, examining how the field has developed since first publication.

Volume 36 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes ten chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.

This volume explores the integration of recent research on everyday, classroom, and professional scientific thinking.

Winner of the Healthy Teen Network's Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education and the American Sociological Association's Children and Youth Section's 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict.

This Element explores children''s art as a window into their thinking and discusses intriguing connections between child art and modernism.

Dyslogical children are commonly labelled as having one or more of a mix of conditions that include Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

The first book to present the contemporary Vygotskian approach to learning and development from birth through adolescence to English-speaking educators.

Are we born selfish or primed to help others?

In a land faraway, there is a village where nobody likes to mix with anyone who is different from them.

Any parent who has raised more than one child is likely to be keenly aware of subtle or even striking differences among their offspring.

This book describes classroom-tested strategies for improving thinking, feeling and acting in students.

This handbook illustrates the depth and breadth of human rights research, intervention models, and advocacy by psychologists.

Adherence and Self-Management in Pediatric Populations addresses the contemporary theories, evidence-based assessments, and intervention approaches for common pediatric chronic illnesses.

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to pick up the pace?

Renowned child therapist Clark Moustakas demonstrates how play can be used to affirm and liberate children_children who suddenly become troubled in their school or family lives and can work out their anger and fear in just a few sessions, as well as children who are seriously disturbed and must struggle to achieve emotional maturity, respect for others, and faith in themselves.

The School Years provides a challenging and lively collection of essays on key issues affecting young people in the school setting.

Throughout history there have been efforts to help deaf children develop spoken language through which they could have full access to the hearing world.

Brain, Mind, and Developmental Psychopathology in Childhood, part of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions' book series "e;Working with Children & Adolescents"e; edited by Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud, aims to help advance knowledge on the connections between brain, mind, and development psychopathology in children and young people, an area of high relevance across different contexts around the world.

This is the essential one-stop guide for parents of children and young people with tic disorders and the professionals who work with them.

Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance.

This volume presents research findings on the effects of early childhood programs and practices in the first decade of life.

This monograph studies women and men as friends from a developmental perspective.