Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Identifies how human judgment and decision making may evolve, develop and be learned or trained.

Cyberbullying is one of the darker and more troubling aspects to the growing accessibility of new media technologies.

This book introduces psychosocial studies of idol worship in Chinese societies.

What can parents and other concerned adults do to prevent the next Sandy Hook?

A guide for saving today's overwhelmed teens through love, laughter, and the power of resilience.

The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'.

This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed.

The Highly Sensitive Brain is the first handbook to cover the science, measurement, and clinical discussion of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a trait associated with enhanced responsivity, awareness, depth-of-processing and attunement to the environment and other individuals.

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

Childhood, adolescence, even the "e;twilight years"e; have been extensively researched and documented.

This Element explains how different language learning settings dynamically affect bilingual children''s language learning trajectories.

Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence.

In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate.

Originally published in 1987, this book introduces work on the intellectual development of children in the primary school.

Providing a vital link between theory and practice, this unique volume translates the latest research data on the effectiveness of interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) into practical guidance for education professionals working with ASD pupils.

For decades, research on children's literacy has been dominated by questions of how children learn to read.

How do we make sense of people?

The papers in this volume bring together a cross-disciplinary mix of researchers--developmental psychologists, evolutionary biologists, economists, anthropologists, and sociologists--working on the common theme of investments in children.

Though much has been written about twins, very little research has been done into their everyday lives, both postnatal and prenatal.

Exploring Twins presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenon.

Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments.

Provides a linguistic description of the patterns used by children when acquiring African American English.

This updated edition of this bestselling, straightforward guide provides the essential information for parents and advocates to understand US law and get the right educational entitlements for a dyslexic child.

This book discusses research and theory on how motivation changes as children progress through school, gender differences in motivation, and motivational differences as an aspect of ethnicity.

Comment faire pour que mon enfant soit heureux ?

What exactly is civic and political participation?

EBOOK: Developmental Psychology, 2e

Lernen ist ein allgegenwärtiges Phänomen.

An engaging account of how new languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force.

Psychopathy: The Basics is an accessible text that provides a compact introduction to the major findings and debates concerning this complex personality disorder.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following divorce.

What determines whether stepfamilies remain together?

This book explores mathematical learning and cognition in early childhood from interdisciplinary perspectives, including developmental psychology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and education.

The comprehensive reference for informative WISC-V assessment Essentials of WISC-V Assessmentprovides step-by-step guidance for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V).

The essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.

This volume juxtaposes two different domains of developmental theory: the Piagetian approach and the information-processing approach.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research and personal perspectives on Asperger Syndrome, including contributions from parents and experts in the fields of psychology, social work, psychiatry, genetics, sexology and vocational counselling.

Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution.

This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which arise from children's and adolescents' social media use.

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

The Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills, Handwriting, and Spelling explores the potentially controversial field of early literacy education.

This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.

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