Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors from birth through adolescence.

Arguments over the developmental origins of human knowledge are ancient, founded in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant.

Written by two practising clinicians, this book is a guide for those who work with children.

This book represents a broad integration of several major themes in psychology toward its unification.

This interdisciplinary volume surveys the diverse experiences of biracial families, both across and outside the black/white binary.

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the illustrated picture book Harry's Story.

Ever faced challenges motivating clients to participate in speech therapy practice at home?

Das Standardwerk zur Bindungsforschung aus der Feder der führenden deutschsprachigen Experten liegt seit 2012 in überarbeiteter und völlig aktualisierter Form vor: mit den neuesten Erkenntnissen aus den Neurowissenschaften und der Psychophysiologie sowie den jüngsten Befunden der Langzeitstudien.

Originally published in 1983, the purpose of this book was to discuss the relations between philosophy and developmental psychology, as those relations existed over the course of the history of the discipline and as they existed at that time.

In the beginning it seemed to us that someone was missing and that something was amiss.

Verfügt das junge Gehirn tatsächlich über eine erhöhte Plastizität – oder doch eher über eine erhöhte Vulnerabilität?

Das Zusammenleben mit sozial auffälligen Kindern hält viele Belastungen für ihre Eltern bereit: Die Hausaufgaben werden zur Qual, elterliche Anweisungen treffen auf taube Ohren etc.

Contains questions and exercises which examine all aspects of communication disorders and give readers practice at analysing clinical linguistic data.

First published in 1987.

Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis represents a convergence of three lines of emphasis now visible in developmental research and theory building.

Placement of students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment has become a central issue in special education.

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This book provides a framework for scholars and clinicians to develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, by seeing personality as a dual, as opposed to a singular, construct.

From Birth to Five Years, based on the pioneering work of Mary Sheridan, is widely regarded as the go-to reference for health, education and social care professionals, or anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children.

Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

This book contributes to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities in (at least) three ways.

This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice.

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research.

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book.

Child psychology is a constantly expanding field, with dozens of specialized journals devoted to major disorders springing up in recent years.

This book addresses the ongoing scientific debates regarding video games and their effects on players.

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

Mobbing unter Kindern und Jugendlichen hat viele Gesichter.

Marriage has been declared dead by many scholars and the media.

This Element features the framework of preventive service delivery systems for breaking the cycle of problems in childhood.

The area of animal counting has historically been the subject of a long and colorful debate, but only more recently have systematic, more rigorous experimental efforts to evaluate numerical abilities in animals been undertaken.

EBOOK: Developmental Psychology, 2e

Miller's Childrenis a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court's decision in the case ofMiller v.

Infants learn to communicate through everyday social interaction with their caregivers in a multisensory world involving sight, hearing, touch and smell.

This collection explores key issues related to infant and toddler wellbeing, offering diverse international perspectives on how wellbeing is culturally understood.

Die nachhaltige Bedeutung früher Beziehungserfahrungen für die spätere sozioemotionale Entwicklung wird durch die Bindungsforschung seit vielen Jahren wissenschaftlich untermauert.

Is maternal instinct fact or fiction?

Play is the child's way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment.

This book reviews broad social changes affecting youth development and the inconsistency of the legal system in updating its approach to adolescents' rights.

Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit.

It is widely accepted that listening to and involving children in decisions about their care, learning and development can significantly improve the quality of early years provision.

Im Leben kann es immer wieder Situationen geben, die sich auf einmal eng und schwer anfühlen mit der Sehnsucht nach mehr Leichtigkeit, Lebensfreude und Freiheit.

This user-friendly book presents research-based best practices for serving families of children with special needs from birth to age 6.

This easy-to-read guide offers a complete overview of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLDs) and the wide variety of symptoms that different types of NLD present.