Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book provides contemporary examples of the ways in which educators can use digital technologies to create effective learning environments that support improved learning and instruction.

Environmental Experience and Plasticity of the Developing Brain goes beyond the genetic basis of neurodevelopment.

Packed with creative, effective ideas for bringing mindfulness into the classroom, child therapy office, or community, this book features sample lesson plans and scripts, case studies, vignettes, and more.

This cutting-edge, yet accessible book provides a complete and integrated assessment of the role of emotions in a wide variety of cognitive functions.

This book examines the intermediate level of mental health services with a focus on partial hospitalization program (PHP) and intensive outpatient program (IOP) models of care for youth.

The book presents an empirical model of commonly occurring individual differences in children that is derived from a large-scale research effort assessing parental and teacher perceptions of children in middle childhood.

Written from a developmental perspective, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is organized around five prominent and recurring themes: the course of normal development proceeds in an orderly and predictable direction; maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path; maladaptive behavior is represented by a continuum of severity (symptoms, syndromes, disorders) based on the degree to which behaviors deviate from the norm; individual, interpersonal, contextual and cultural factors interact in a reciprocal way to influence normal development and abnormal deviations; theoretical input from diverse perspectives can guide our understanding of underlying processes that precipitate and maintain behaviors and the different developmental pathways that might result.

Leading scholars synthesize knowledge on how gains from early childhood programs and practices are initiated, increased, and sustained.

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the impact of fathers on child development from prenatal years to age five.

Replays addresses the challenging behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders through interactive symbolic play.

Written by a pediatrician/adolescent medicine specialist and a developmental psychologist, this book is a collection of informative, nonredundant yet comprehensive studies on adolescent pregnancy and parenting.

Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs.

This volume provides an authoritative survey of all the major theories of infant development.

Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field.

Baby Bear lives in a home with the Big Bears, and loves to chase butterflies and make mud pies - they make Baby Bear's tummy fill with sunshine.

Packed with 10 essential parenting strategies, Clinton and Sibcy help parents understand the strengths and weaknesses of parenting styles, and offer a proven method for raising healthy, happy, well-balanced kids.

This all-embracing Handbook on the Development of Children s Memory represents the first place in which critical topics in memory development are covered from multiple perspectives, from infancy through adolescence.

An essential handbook for professionals and advanced students in the field.

This accessible book draws on unique evidence from oral histories and little-known archive material to shed new light on the working relationships which led to John Bowlby s shift from psychoanalysis to ethology as a frame of reference and ultimately to the development of attachment theory.

Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Concise and easy-to-understand, this book provides an introduction to what attachment means and how to recognise attachment disorder in children.

An essential new guide for any person-centred trainee or practitioner, this book explores some of the key contemporary counselling and psychotherapy approaches that have developed from classical client-centred therapy.

View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens.

Whether members of the family are headed to school or work, smartphones accompany family members throughout the day.

More than simply examining the new geographical patterns forming within cities, this third edition of Urban Geography also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation.

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

This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents' health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental processes that accompany them.

Originally published in 1931, the study reported in this book was undertaken as part of the research programme of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

This concise, accessible guide explores the different models behind the concept of giftedness, examining the criteria for evaluating and identifying gifted children, in order to provide a deeper understanding of the lives of children and young people with high cognitive potential.

This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder.

The seven articles in this special issue represent a sampling of the exciting findings that are beginning to emerge from studies of executive control in young children.

This book examines the role that human subjective experience plays in the creation of reality and introduces a new concept, the Bubble Universe, to describe the universe as it looks from the subjective viewpoint of an individual.

Biologists have known for decades that many traits involved in competition for mates or other resources and that influence mate choice are exaggerated, and their expression is influenced by the individuals' ability to tolerate a variety of environmental and social stressors.

Psychological research on children with mental and physical handicaps began two hundred years ago.

Children do not always have the capacity or need to express themselves through words.

This excellent, informative and well presented, a book provides the reader with fourteen edited chapters covering an area of policy and practice that is quite specific but will inform anyone interested in the development of a service user participation ethos in adult social care.

This book is a clear and straightforward guide to analysis of variance, the backbone of experimental research.

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).

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.

All psychological processes-like biological and social ones-are dynamic.

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How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation.

This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments.

Children are one of the most important phase of human development and the most important target group for social work intervention.

This book explores normative and problematic aspects of revenge in childhood and adolescence at various levels of youths'' social ecologies.

The world is continually changing.

Understanding Rett Syndrome offers a concise, evidence-based introduction to Rett Syndrome (RTT), covering a range of topics from diagnosis and causes to treatment and family management.