Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This text covers the evidence-based approaches for the most critical mental health issues facing youth, from infancy through adolescence.

Although experts agree that various types of learning disabilities do exist, few attempts have been made to classify learning disabled children into subtypes.

The study of bilingualism and all of its aspects - from theory and models to social approaches and their practical applications - forms the cornerstone of the 2nd edition of this work.

This serial was established under the editorship of Dr.

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

Das Praxishandbuch informiert prägnant und übersichtlich über die theoretischen Grundlagen und pathogenetischen Konzepte der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie.

Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people's drinking in high- income countries.

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in early childhood and elementary years.

Young Children's Social Emotional Learning: The COPE-Resilience Program is a manual that is designed to support early childhood educators in the delivery of the COPE Resilience (COPE-R) program, an evidence-based program designed to teach empathy, resilience and prosocial skills to children.

In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number.

This accessible book offers essential guidance and practical ideas for Early Years staff to support children with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.

This handbook provides a substantive foundation of autism theory and research, including a comprehensive overview, conceptualization, and history of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and pervasive developmental disorder (PDD).

Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD).

This exciting new edition is an engaging and accessible introduction to understanding human behaviour and development from a psychological perspective.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.

This book provides an in-depth insight into what is currently known and relatively unknown about youths' online peer engagement.

First published in 1983.

Meet Ellie - a young girl with epilepsy.

Children treat play as an end in itself while adults treat it as a means which may serve several developmental functions.

Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book: What You Can Do Now to Advocate for Your Exceptional Child's Education is a unique handbook that teaches parents how to work with schools to achieve optimal learning situations and accommodations for their child's needs.

This book is written for students and clinicians who want to learn about adolescent behavioral health and psychosocial development.

This book describes key practices to bring school mental health programs to scale in a sustainable and effective manner.

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed.

The Routledge International Handbook of Dialectical Thinking is a landmark volume offering a multi-disciplinary compendium of the research, theory and practice that defines dialectical thinking, its importance and how it develops over the lifespan.

This Element considers the role of culture in the complex interactions of teenagers with technology.

This book examines disproportionality in education, focusing on issues of social justice for diverse and marginalized students.

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development.

This book provides a philosophical, socio-political and theoretical understanding of the notion of Becoming in the context of the related concepts, and in contemplation of the notion of Being.

Translating research about child neuroscience into practice in education is a daunting prospect for most practitioners.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive resource for everyone who works with students with autism within the music classroom.

The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ranging from confronting mental and physical challenges to meditation - sustain our brains and bodies, and ultimately build our mental and psychological capacities degenerated by stress and by aging.

Why do people spend so much time thinking about the future, imagining scenarios that may never occur, and making (often unrealistic) predictions?

Is social media ruining our kids?

The child's world often revolves around dreams and fantasy.

What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different?

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make them perplexing and frustrating to work with.

Learning is the foundation of the human experience.

This book provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of language processing and related neural networks in schizophrenia by addressing the complex link between psychopathology, language and evolution at different levels of analysis.

Lerncoaching ist eine spezielle Form der Lernförderung, bei der Motivations- und Lernstrategien vermittelt werden.

This volume examines the role and relevance of exemplars and the practice of imitation in character development and formation.

Developing healthy sexual behaviors is critical to adolescents wellbeing.

This book discusses a newly developed concept of adaptability capacity and development as an extension of Charles Darwin's work on adaptability.

In Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children, Eric Maisel provides clinicians with the tools they need to address the issues facing the parents of diagnosed children.

This book examines disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) during childhood and adolescence.

Based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposia, Just Living Together represents one of the first systematic efforts to focus on cohabitation.

Can religious arguments provide a reasonable basis for restrictive public policies regarding politically controversial medical interventions?

This updated edition of the seminal 2003 text on outdoor play in early years provision taps into the major issues around nutrition, exercise and mental wellbeing in this field.

In this ground-breaking collection, leading experts in the field address the problems of parents, intervenors, and professionals who work with people who have been deafblind since birth or from a very early age.