Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

The non-violent resistance approach prevents escalation, while reducing parental helplessness, problem behaviors, and family discord.

First published in 1982.

As our global demographic shifts towards an increasingly aging population, we have an opportunity to transform how we experience and think about getting older and embrace the diversity and contribution that this population can bring to society.

This book is based on the idea that increasing juvenile risk behaviours - like substance abuse, nonsuicidal self-injury, and antisocial or suicidal behaviour - allow adolescents to fulfill developmental tasks like identity-formation and regulation of self-worth.

In Group Filial Therapy (GFT), therapists train parents to conduct play sessions with their own children to help meet children's therapeutic needs, and to transfer appropriate skills to family life.

Die in diesem Buch aufgezeigten Beispiele aus der psychoanalytischen Säuglings­beobachtung wie auch aus der Säuglings-Kleinkind-Eltern-Psychotherapie machen deutlich, wie bereits Babys und kleine Kinder leiden, und zeigen auf, welche Möglichkeiten die Psychoanalyse bereit hält, um den sehr frühen Ängsten und Affekten zu begegnen.

Stressed Out!

This handbook brings together the relevant literature on children and their developmental characteristics, the legal venues in which they may appear, and the systemic issues practitioners must consider to provide a thorough guide to working with children in the legal system.

The number of homeschooling families has grown in recent years, along with the number of methods for learning at home.

Parenting: What Really Counts?

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults.

The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development.

First published in 1974, this book presents a coherent collection of major articles by Richard Stanley Peters.

This book is for teachers, teacher educators, school and district administrators, policy makers, and researchers who want to know about literacy, cultural diversity, and students who speak little or no English.

In the second edition of his unique study of peer relationships in childhood, Dr Barry Schneider re-examines this fundamental aspect of childhood.

This 32nd volume of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology celebrates the 75th anniversary of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development.

What is the difference between a lie and a fantasy, when the subject is a child?

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to perceptual development and motor development from infancy to adolescence.

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

This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform.

Introduces the novel concept of affective social learning to explain how values are socially transmitted.

This book offers a new perspective on language teaching by placing moral issues--that is, questions of values--at the core of what it is to be a teacher.

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories.

More than any other challenging behaviour, the sexual abuse of one child by another generates anxiety, puzzlement and confusion.

Interest in the field of human-animal interactions is burgeoning, and researchers and educators are keen to understand the science undergirding research that helps us understand interactions between people and animals.

We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics.

This book is devoted specifically to culture and children''s peer relationships.

This book presents an integrated, practical system for the rehabilitation and remediation of post-institutionalized international adoptees.

Semiotic Construction of the Self in Multicultural Societies elaborates on a holistic theory on the self, by means of integrating social representation theory, dialogical self theory and particular ideas from Vygotskyan developmental psychology in one framework.

Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death.

Autism 360 uses a hybrid and transdisciplinary methodology to identify mechanisms on how autism is prevented, diagnosed, treated and managed within personal and social constructs around the world.

Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry promised "e;to explore adolescence as a process .

Bilingualism Across the Lifespan explores the opportunities and challenges that are inherent in conducting cognitive research in an increasingly global and multilingual society.

Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.

In Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind, noted educators Arthur L.

Gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection, responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; transmissions and transitions: these are the primary themes of family.

Adolescent substance abuse is the nation's #1 public health problem.

Higher education in the United States is facing a critical juncture.

Compiled from papers presented at the Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, this is the first book of its kind devoted to disseminating theory and research in the field of psychopathology.

';Be nice to your sister!

This definitive account of the intersection between music, wellness, and aging explores deeper aspects of human nature and later life.

Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.

The book offers a global perspective on social and emotional learning skills (SEL) by summarizing findings from a collaborative multi-national and cross-cultural study of educator perceptions regarding the nature and value of SEL skills conducted by career development researchers from 19 countries.