Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book is an amazing resource for play therapy techniques.

Although there are far more opportunities for LGBTQ people to become parents than there were before the 1990s, attention to the reproductive challenges LGBTQ families face has not kept pace.

This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting these options.

Play Therapy: Treatment Planning and Interventions: The Ecosystemic Model and Workbook, 2e, provides key information on one of the most rapidly developing and growing areas of therapy.

Going through a divorce is always tough, but when a child with special needs is involved it can be especially challenging.

The Second Edition of the handbook incorporates notable research advances throughout its comprehensive, up-to-date examination of this diverse and maturing field.

This exciting new book provides a novel interdisciplinary introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology.

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.

Jasper the badger has a plan to get some peace and quiet so he can eat his piece of fudge by himself.

Although integrative conceptions of development have been gaining increasing interest, there have been few attempts to bring together the various threads of this emerging trend.

Celebrated trainer and the Today show fitness expert Kathy Kaehler is one of Hollywood's most sought-after fitness trainers.

Originally published in 1986, the central topic of this book is the analysis and application of control-related beliefs and behaviours for theory and practice in the psychology of aging.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior.

Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psychologically valid theory of grammar.

The Autisms, written by Mary Coleman and Christopher Gillberg, demonstrates that autism, like mental retardation, is a clinical presentation of numerous different diseases, many with genomic underpinnings.

The second edition of this book examines the numerous research and practice advances with regard to adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Empirische entwicklungspsychologische Erkenntnisse werden in diesem Band auf die Anwendung in Familien, Kitas und Grundschulen übertragen.

Dieses Buch untersucht gängige Sprichwörter des Volksmunds aus psychologisch-wissenschaftlicher Perspektive: Stimmen die alten Sprichwörter mit den Erkenntnissen der modernen Wissenschaft überein?

Literature in the child abuse and child protection arena has tended to adopt either a practice or legal perspective.

The quality of early social relationships has a deep bearing on our psychological and social development; adversity in childhood can lead to adult relationships that may be difficult and distressing.

We're in the midst of a parenting climate that feeds on more.

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills, Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having top 2% IQ.

Originally published in 1988.

Parents, caregivers and educators are often at a loss about how best to support an individual with autism because they are overwhelmed by 'behaviours', inundated with prognoses and clinical jargon, or confused by technical information.

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

Play for Health Across the Lifespan uses case studies to explore the impact of play and creativity on health and wellbeing throughout the lifecycle.

The new edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on stress and health, moving beyond the former deficit model to a resource growth model.

Offers an entirely new way of thinking about how psychology works and how it constructs knowledge, using a process-based approach.

This is the very first authoritative book on the role of Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) in the history of psychology.

Using psychological theory as a basis, Socializing Children through Language examines naturally occurring conversations between mothers and children in the context of achievement, self-regulation, food consumption, and television watching to illustrate how families of different socioeconomic means interact and discuss a variety of topics in the home.

The second edition of this engaging text reflects a welcome new paradigm for aging-that of aging as a positive stage of life.

Originally published in 1999, the author addresses the American tragedy of some two million youth running away from home each year.

This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder.

In der zwischenmenschlichen Kommunikation gibt es viele Themen, die verbal kaum angesprochen oder besprochen werden können.

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction.

This volume evolved from the second life span development conference held at Southern Illinois University entitled "e;Assessment and Intervention Across the Lifespan.

Written specifically for siblings of children with Tourette Syndrome (TS), Why Do You Do That?

John and Elizabeth Newson were well known for their studies of child rearing, which have combined a rigorous research methodology with sympathetic insights into family life and a lively approach to scientific reporting.

Aging in women has traditionally been defined by the menopause, however it is often social and economic changes which are more important to women.

This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students' emotions.

This book explores what identity is, what factors contribute to it, how it develops, and the impacts that a strong or weak sense of self can have on a person's health, happiness, and future.

This book is the first to bring together researchers in individual differences in personality and temperament to explore whether there is any unity possible between the temperament researchers of infancy and childhood and the major researchers in adult personality.

This book address fundamental questions of human development, revisiting old questions and applying original empirical findings.

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

Adolescence is one of the most turbulent yet exciting phases in life.

Moving Moments in Childhood provides a roadmap to truly understanding and embodying mental and physical health for children through the lens of dance/movement therapy.

WISC-V: Clinical Use and Interpretation, Second Edition provides practical information for clinicians on the selection of subtest measures, along with their proper administration and interpretation.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 63 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.