The first edition of Growing Up Fast attempted to counter the stereotype of poor, minority adolescent mothers and describe the diversity of their educational, work, parenting, and relationship experiences.
Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity.
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.
This book summarizes more than four decades of research on imitation in infancy and its relation to early learning and sociocognitive development in typically and atypically developing children.
Children arrive in their science classrooms with their own ideas and interpretations of the phenomena they are to study even when they have received no systematic instruction in these subjects whatsoever.
New Methods and Approaches for Studying Child Development, Volume 62 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.
First published in 1930, the object of Love in the Machine Age was to popularize a modern and scientific view of behavior, and thereby help people to live happy and successful lives.
This book''s innovative transformative stance revives the critical-activist gist of Vygotsky''s project to move beyond theoretical-ideological canons in addressing the crisis of inequality.
This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children.
Synthesizing a vast body of empirical research and organizing it around a comprehensive conceptual model, this book is recognized as the definitive reference on adult attachment.
This book offers experienced practitioners and trainees in psychotherapy and counselling a new, deeply personal and theoretically-grounded perspective on clinical work that integrates existential philosophy and psychotherapy into a relational transactional analysis.
The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'.
Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state transitions or events.
Faced with multiple choices regarding school, friends, and activities coupled with the ever-widening influence of the outside world, parents of 6-12 year olds need help.
A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions.
Behavioral genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on behavior through the lifespan.
This book deals with the complex cognitive processes involved in understanding two "e;horizontal"e; aspects of music perception, melody and rhythm, both separately and together.
This book discusses the burgeoning world of young children's exposure to educational media and its myriad implications for research, theory, practice, and policy.
Based on extensive clinical research, this book sheds new light onto how Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can be used with older adults as an effective complementary intervention, identifying specific ways in which MBSR programmes can be adapted and fine-tuned to meet the needs of this group.
Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School guides parents through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape of raising kids who have been labeled with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and more.
Eine Vielzahl von Faktoren wie Mobilität, Migration, Inklusion, berufliche Übergänge und Medien prägen heutige individuelle Entwicklungs- und Erziehungsprozesse.
These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996.
Concepts and Theories of Human Development is the most comprehensive and in-depth overview of the foundational theoretical contributions to understanding human development and the influence of these contributions for contemporary research and application in developmental science.
Bunny Visits London is the third book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.
This original book contributes significantly to an understanding of sexism by revealing a major arena for its formation - the play practices of children.
This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development.
According to a professional association of 67,000 pediatricians, "e;the lifelong success of children is based on their ability to be creative and to apply the lessons learned from playing.
