Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Volume 45 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis.

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman.

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Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond the usual research populations that have extensive Western schooling in common.

Education research has seen a phenomenal growth in studies that explore the multiple, fluid, and changing complexities of culture and identity work.

Kelly Harland's stories explore her son's life to the age of 14, and the new and unexpected universe she and her husband - both professional musicians - must learn to navigate with him.

This handbook presents an overview of research on test anxiety and related forms of students' stress and anxiety at schools and other academic environments, and also brings together a series of psychological interventions to prevent and treat anxiety disorders related to academic assessments.

This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks.

Examine the latest research merging nature and nurture in pathological development Developmental Psychopathology is a four-volume compendium of the most complete and current research on every aspect of the field.

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.

Embark on an illuminating voyage through the biological foundations of human nature and development with Psychobiological Footprints through Human Development.

The first part of the book offers a survey of current approaches to the development of moral reasoning: those of Freud, ego psychology, Piaget and Kohlberg.

An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse recounts how art education has been conceptualized, taught, and advocated for in the United States in the face of its persistent marginalization in the education system.

Biomental Child Development: Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting coins the novel term "e;biomental"e; to denote the interaction of the actual and gradually integrating body and mind from conception through development over infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

This book illustrates the process of mediated dialogue in a digital age.

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion.

This book brings together researchers from different fields, traditions and perspectives to examine the ways in which place and space might (be) unsettle(d).

Schulhunde als pädagogische Helfer haben in den letzten Jahren enorm an Verbreitung, Akzeptanz und Professionalisierung gewonnen.

How do people develop in their important relationships?

This book is a story about Private Intelligence Contractors (PICs) and their relationship with the United States executive and legislative principals in the War on Terror when the line between the public and private sectors has been increasingly blurred.

Cognitive Aging and the Role of Strategy is the English Language edition of 'Vieillissement cognitif et variations strategiques', oriiginally published in French .

This unique text offers an interdisciplinary collection of the most current articles concerning the scientific study of Child Health Psychology.

Prevention and developmental sciences have many complementary goals and much to gain by collaboration.

This volume considers previously separate bodies of research on social justice, social equality, and social development.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Using Evidence to Advance Research, Practice, Policy, and Prevention defines ACEs, provides a summary of the past 20 years of ACEs research, as well as provides guidance for the future directions for the field.

There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence.

Forms part of JKP's 'Helping Children to Improve Wellbeing and Resilience' seriesUsing a model of 'mindfulness play' to help children to achieve wellbeing, this book encourages children to build awareness of their inner and outer worlds.

This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being.

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging.

Now part of a two-volume set, the fully revised and updated second edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 2: Applied and Policy Issues provides comprehensive coverage of the applied and policy issues relating to infant development.

'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology.

Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.

The second edition of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder is an essential read for all clinicians, researchers, and anyone who wants to learn about how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be applied to treatment for generalized anxiety disorder.

Prominent intellectuals and public figures explore the dynamics of development, offering varying perspectives from a range of fields.

For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism.

Far too often, children and youth experience trauma, from rare events such as mass shootings, terrorism attacks, and school lockdowns, to very common occurrences such as bullying, exposure to drugs and alcohol, or various mental health issues.

This accessible introduction to developmental psychology examines how children develop, from language development to social learning and the development of emotion.

The field of emotions research has recently seen an unexpected period of growth and expansion, both in traditional psychological literature and in gerontology.

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research.

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.

Describes how common, everyday spaces in youth''s lives can be leveraged to help them recognize and fight injustice.

Asperger's Syndrome in Young Children is easy to read, with lots of practical ideas and advice, presented in a sympathetic manner.

Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive entry point into the existing literature on child development in the fields of psychology, genetics, neuroscience and sociology.

School Success for Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders gives parents and teachers of students with Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, mood disorders, or other emotional and behavioral disorders the strategies they need to help these kids overcome their struggles and find success in school.

How to live well and the search for meaning have long been of intense concern to humans, perhaps because Homo sapiens is the only species aware of its own mortality.

Sport bietet nicht nur die Gelegenheit, Gesundheit und Körpergefühl zu fördern, sondern auch die Möglichkeit, Fairness zu trainieren.

Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating.

Countless children throughout the world grow up without fathers.