Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications-extracts from books, key articles, research findings, and practical and theoretical contributions.

Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children.

Functional Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide to Implementation and Training provides practitioners with the most updated information about applying the wide span of current functional analysis (FA) methodologies geared specifically to applied service settings.

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement, but also, paradoxically, with higher relationship conflict, career difficulty, mental illness, and high-IQ crime.

Has Trauma Affected the Child You're Caring For?

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

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the storybook.

Tashi Hansen du Toit was 15 years old when her mother, Karen, suffered a severe haemorrhagic stroke which left her with multiple physical and cognitive impairments.

Written by experienced teachers and educational researchers Phillip Adey and Michael Shayer, Really Raising Standards analyses attempts to teach children to think more effectively and efficiently.

Alicia is so obsessed with being popular, she does things that would shock her parents, if they knew.

This is the first book-length study of bilingual, international, and immigrant students in English writing courses that attempts to fully embed their writing experiences within the broader frame of their personal histories, the human context of their development, and the disciplinary contexts of their majors.

This book focuses on the status quo and current trends concerning ethnic issues in China, and seeks to promote the equitable and harmonious development of Chinese and other nationalities around the world.

Over one billion people use the Internet globally.

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

Originally published in 1995.

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.

Campus counseling services today must face the challenges of greater diversity and complexity on campus while making do with fewer resources.

Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms features international experts from the fields of psychobiology, sleep research and chronobiology to address and review cutting-edge scientific literature concerning recent advances in the psychobiology of sleep, sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea and insomnia, and circadian rhythms, across the lifespan.

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality is a progressive text that explores the relationship between psychology, science and morality, to address fundamental questions about the foundations of psychological research and its relevance for the development of these disciplines.

This book shows how individuals develop a unique style or ''melody'' of living, beyond physical and social constraints.

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

The ABCs of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition, discusses major research findings on learning disabilities in children, adolescents and adults in language, memory, social skills, self-regulation, reading, mathematics, and writing, with an additional chapter on assessment.

Memory is often the primary evidence in the courtroom, yet unfortunately this evidence may not be fit for purpose.

La teoría y la técnica contemporáneas del Tratamiento Basado en la Mentalización (MBT) y sus aplicaciones clínicas se han desarrollado significativamente en los últimos 25 años, desde que Fonagy y colaboradores presentaran en 2002 su magistral integración de psicología evolutiva, neurociencia, psicoanálisis evolutivo y genética.

Often examined separately, this timely volume provides a detailed exploration of the nexus between family violence and sexual offending.

Concern continues to ripple throughout society over the escalating incidents of youth violence and aggression.

Based on an extensive national research project with global relevance, this pioneering volume draws on unique data on bullying in youth sports training collected from both athletes and coaches using a variety of methodological approaches.

Familie in die Lese- und Schreibkompetenzförderung zu Beginn der Grundschulzeit einzubinden ist oft nicht leicht, aber sehr wirksam.

This insightful book offers an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the development of visual abilities and motor skills in infants and children.

Cognitive Development provides a detailed and accessible account of three main areas: theories of cognitive development, the development of measured intelligence and the development of moral understanding.

Two producers of Today share their experiences and wisdom on baby's first year, along with priceless advice and anecdotes from the anchors and experts on America's number-one morning show.

A Guide to Clinical Supervision: The Supervision Pyramid provides a combined view of theory and research-based, step-by-step guidelines for conducting supervision.

Das zentrale Thema der Pubertät lautet, wie Jugendliche und ihre Bindungspersonen eine Balance zwischen Bindungssuche, Loslösung und Autonomie finden.

The Classic Edition of Dolph Kohnstamm's Jean Piaget, Children and the Class-Inclusion Problem, first published in 1967, includes a new introduction by the author, describing for readers the original context for his work, how the field has moved forward and the ongoing relevance of this volume.

First published in 1987.

Microfinance is defined as the financial services offered to the poor for the purpose of promoting small-scale enterprises, and as such it is one of the most important topics in development studies and a burgeoning area in economics.

A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary aim is to describe and examine contemporary theory and research findings on the topic of deductive reasoning.

This handbook brings together the latest thinking on the scientific study of closeness and intimacy from some of the most active and widely recognized relationship scholars in social and clinical psychology, communication studies, and related disciplines.

The study of speech errors, or "e;slips of the tongue,"e; is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning.

Understand the important milestones of development in children in five developmental domains: physical and motor, social and emotional, communication and language, cognitive, and approaches to learning.

This book explores what it means to live a purposeful life and outlines the benefits associated with purpose across different life domains.

When his son, Matthew, was finally diagnosed with autism at 12 years old, Mike Stanton thought the diagnosis marked the end of their troubles.

To demystify creative work without reducing it to simplistic formulas, Doris Wallace and Howard Gruber, one of the world's foremost authorities on creativity, have produced a unique book exploring the creative process in the arts and sciences.

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the "e;second person"e; in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

Die Untersuchungen von René Spitz zum Hospitalismus haben gezeigt, daß ausreichende Ernährung und Versorgung allein nicht ausreichen: Kinder brauchen für eine gesunde psychische Entwicklung auch Bindungspersonen, die ihre emotionalen Bedürfnisse befriedigen.

Global Emergency of Mental Disorders is a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read overview of the neurodevelopmental basis of multiple mental disorders and their accompanying consequences, including addiction, suicide and homelessness.

Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children's reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems.