Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

The definition of intelligence has become the object of many controversies - particularly about its nature and the causes of its development - with essential social implications at stake.

We live in a self-centered world, despite the call from employers and thought leaders for more cooperation and compassion.

Empathy is profoundly important for understanding people's feelings and behaviour.

A gifted education Legacy Award winner, Take Control of Asperger's Syndrome: The Official Strategy Guide for Teens With Asperger's Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disorder is a unique handbook for kids and teens on living successful lives with these disorders by taking control of their strengths to overcome their weaknesses.

This book, published originally in 1980, addressed the needs for a profile of televised violence which considered the advantages and disadvantages of various measures and for a furthering of research directions beyond the then-popular emphasis on children.

The purpose of this book is to explore meaningful integrations of developmental processes and functioning with conceptualizations of "e;context"e; -- a term traditionally denoting physical settings, social arenas, or perceptual or social backdrops in relation to a focal point.

Almost all families will at some time have to make difficult decisions concerning aging family members, involving institutionalization, moving from medical interventions to palliative care, and even physician-assisted death.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, definition, causes, effects, impacts and implications of climate change on young people globally, with a focus on Small Island Communities (SIDS) in particular.

This book provides a contemporary exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer relationships, challenging heteronormative practice and introducing new perspectives on working with gender and sexual diversity.

Jedes Kind kann von einem traumatischen Ereignis betroffen werden, sei es durch den plötzlichen oder unerwarteten Tod eines Familienangehörigen, durch einen schweren Verkehrsunfall oder durch das Erleben einer Naturkatastrophe.

This unique text presents a systematic study of a proven method for increasing the memory and reading comprehension of older adults by using a program based on discourse processing.

Sofie Koborg Brosen is eleven years old and, like other children of her age, goes to a mainstream school, loves reading comics and being with her family and her cat, Teddy.

Many adopted or foster children have complex, troubling, often painful pasts.

This book has been replaced by Child and Adolescent Development for Educators, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5834-6.

Originally published in 1986.

Designed to provide practical information to those who are concerned with the development of young children, this book has three goals.

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive fairy tale has been created for children experiencing feelings of anxiety.

An important contribution to the emerging body of research-based knowledge about English grammar, this volume presents empirical studies along with syntheses and overviews of previous and ongoing work on the teaching and learning of grammar for learners of English as a second/foreign language.

This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.

The School Years provides a challenging and lively collection of essays on key issues affecting young people in the school setting.

This book highlights the ongoing trend of brief treatments in psychotherapy for child and adolescent populations.

The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult-but also one of the most common-factors in the destruction of any relationship.

Hostile, destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and create serious problems for society.

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.

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern?

Currently, there are over 400,000 youth living in foster care in the United States, with over 20,000 aging out of the child welfare system each year.

During the past 25 years, a great deal of research and theory has addressed the development of young children's understanding of mental states such as knowledge, beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions.

This book examines the role of experience-based learning on children's acquisition of language and concepts.

Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity.

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework (LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating the work of the health and human service professions.

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Das Lebenskompetenzenprogramm IPSY (Information + Psychosoziale Kompetenz = Schutz) wurde für die Klassenstufen 5–7 basierend auf dem aktuellen Forschungsstand zur Entstehung von jugendlichem Substanzmissbrauch entwickelt und als eines der wenigen Lebenskompetenzprogramme weltweit auch langfristig mit Bezug auf Substanzkonsum erfolgreich evaluiert.

This book examines the many roles of families in their members' food access, preferences, and consumption.

The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world.

What does a child's ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development?

The Pampered Child Syndrome is a welcome source of advice for parents or professionals working with children who are given all the love and care they need, yet who remain unhappy, anxious or angry.

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning.

Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement.

This book briefly outlines psychological perspectives of the values, attitudes and behaviour of parents in influencing a child's personality.

With specially commissioned introductions from international experts, the Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 series draws together previously published chapters on key themes in psychological science that engage with people's unprecedented experience of the pandemic.

This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution.

With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools.

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.

In this volume, distinguished therapists and clinicians offer a broad range of effective attachment-based interventions for children with a history of attachment difficulties and complex trauma.

This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the rapidly growing research base on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment.

Handbook of Social Media in Education, Consumer Behavior and Politics explores the impact of social media within these systems.