Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults.

The human mind is both extraordinary and compelling.

This new reference provides a comprehensive overview of intellectual and developmental disabilities, incorporating multiple perspectives and disciplines (including developmental neuroscience, genetics, psychiatry, and psychology) with a multifaceted approach, offering readers appreciation for the richness of the population and field.

Disorganized attachment, the most extreme form of insecure attachment, can develop in a child when the person who is normally meant to protect them is a source of danger.

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

A New York Times BestsellerRenowned neurologist Dr.

Une vie gratifiante et riche de sens, un défi bien-être à la fois

Un jour ou l'autre, nous faisons tous face à des bouleversements qui suscitent en nous un sentiment de détresse.

Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek presents the first in-depth examination of the scientific contributions and life of Hanus Papousek (1922-2000), a leading figure in modern infancy research.

La course à la performance s’applique à tous les domaines de la société, mais elle n’est pas sans conséquences.

Jean Ayres'Therapiekonzept für die Behandlung von Kindern mit den unterschiedlichsten Entwicklungsstörungen wird seit Jahrzehnten mit Erfolg eingesetzt.

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.

This edited volume promotes the capacity for critical thinking and judgement in primary school-aged children in the face of the challenges that schools encounter in today's society.

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides in-depth descriptions of past and present analytic concepts, with accompanying examples of how these theories affect clinical interventions.

Parenting: What Really Counts?

An engaging and accessible introduction to understanding human behaviour and development from a psychological perspective.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 61, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this release presenting chapters on The Development of Mental Rotation Ability Across the First Year After Birth, Groups as Moral Boundaries: A Developmental Perspective, The Development of Time Concepts, Mother-child Physiological Synchrony, Children's Social Reasoning About Others: Dispositional and Contextual Influences, Mindful Thinking: Does it Really Help Children?

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr.

Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students provides a research-informed, systematic approach for using cooperative multiplayer video games as tools for teaching collaborative social skills and building social connections.

This book presents a longitudinal study dealing with developmental changes within and between self-concepts and their relation to personal functioning.

Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood in Ukraine examines the factors that influence emotional development of young people between 4 and 17 years old.

Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to aging and work, but with a focus on recent advances in the field.

Youth sports aren't just about fun and games anymore.

The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today.

This book documents the third in a series of annual symposia on family issues--the National Symposium on International Migration and Family Change: The Experience of U.

Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties serves to provide an explanation of the complex workings of inner family life.

Loneliness in Later Life concerns the personal and social changes associated with ageing, a topic which is becoming increasingly popular as the number of those in the Third Age themselves reaches unprecedented levels.

Das erste umfassende Buch zur Bewegungstherapie mit Kindern und Jugendlichen- Übersichtlich: Störungsspezifische BWT in Anlehnung an die ICD-Klassifikation- Praxisbezogen: Mit vielen Fallbeispielen und Interventionsmöglichkeiten- Extra: Vorlagen und Arbeitsmaterial zum DownloadBewegungstherapie (BWT) fördert als eigenständiges Verfahren die motorische, kognitive, emotionale und soziale Entwicklung.

The book examines the intersections of online learning theories and models in the current research literature for teaching in digital environments in postsecondary education.

This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others.

Originally published in 1972, the aim of Psychology and Visual Aesthetics was to present a study mainly concerned with experimental work on visual aesthetics.

Lernen ist ein allgegenwärtiges Phänomen.

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issues.

Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Prez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years.

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Does your child struggle to know how their body is feeling?

« Faites ce que vous voulez, de toute façon ce sera mal », disait Freud de l’éducation des enfants.

Offering insight on Mexican American culture, families, and children, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing population.

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people's social exchanges than has been available in the past.

Originally published in 1975, this volume contains original reports of new models and data in the areas of propositional reasoning, syllogistic reasoning, and transitive inference in children and adults of the time.

This popular text shows how teachers can create partnerships with parents and students that facilitate participation in the schools while also validating home culture and family concerns and aspirations.

Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions.

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 offers a broader, more positive picture of African American fathers.

This is the second volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia on Stress and Coping.

This collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E.