Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

In this volume and its companion Adolescence and Breakdown, originally published in 1975, members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, together with other leading experts on the subject, present a unique study of adolescence.

Significant shifts in community violence have created a need for greater awareness of character development and violence prevention in schools.

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning.

This book sets forth a new model of development from a causal perspective.

Women's Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality, immigrant experience, sexual orientation, gender identity, ableness and body size and shape.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 67, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Afterschool Research, Unraveling the Transracial Adoption Paradox: Construction race and racism in adoptive families, Risk and Resilience Models in Child Development, The Dual Journey: The Development of Twins' Relationships Throughout Childhood, A sociocultural perspective of multimodal learning by infants and young children, and Defining the Role of Executive Function in Children's Sociomoral Reasoning.

There are many exciting points of contact between developmental psychology in the attachment paradigm and the kinds of questions first raised by Aristotle's ethics, and which continue to preoccupy moral philosophers today.

This book explains how children''s early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure.

Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time.

This book examines psychosocial risk factors contributing to the development and maintenance of psychopathology in early childhood.

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On Becoming a Psychologist explores the professional identity construction of psychology students, examining their entry into the psychology profession from a socio-cultural perspective.

Anger is a very difficult and often misunderstood emotion for children to experience.

Originally published in 1991, this volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry.

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

Modeled on the author's bestselling Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention, this new book on child clinical intervention presents much of the material in outline or bullet point format, allowing easy understanding of complex material for the busy therapist.

Working with babies and children is most successful when therapists have a complete understanding and overview of all appropriate treatment options, and the effects of early influences on child health and development.

This stimulating analysis reviews the broad potential of animal models to foster a deeper understanding of human pathology, strengthen connections between genetic and behavioral studies, and develop more effective treatments for mental disorders.

Long before most school programs begin anti-bullying campaigns, young girls are getting a full education in social aggression.

Understanding Your Child's Brain simplifies the neuroscience behind what is going on in a child's brain during the first six years of life to help parents develop the full intellectual and emotional potential of their children.

How do children acquire language?

Do traditions contribute to children's spirituality?

Bringing together leading investigators, this comprehensive handbook is a one-stop reference for anyone planning or conducting research on personality.

Countless studies have demonstrated the power of early intervention to permanently alter the course of a child's life.

Drawing on personal insights and research-based knowledge, this important work facilitates understanding of the psychological struggles of young African American males and offers ameliorative strategies.

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn.

Taking up a social constructionist position, this book illustrates the social and cultural construction of autism as made visible in everyday, educational, institutional and historical discourses, alongside a careful consideration of the bodily and material realities of embodied differences.

There is commonly-held belief that some people learn better than others because they are born that way.

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It's refreshing to see a lifespan text written by helping professionals for helping professionals.

This volume contains the papers presented at the eighteenth Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, held October 27-29, 1983, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Cutting it Out is a largely autobiographical account of a young woman's battle with self-harm.

This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the famous and influential work of Jean Piaget and Alina Szeminska, The Child's Conception of Number.

A number of societal risks pose serious challenges to families' well-being, many of which cut across divisions of class and race.

The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable human achievements.

First published in 1980.

This book brings together recent UK studies into children's experiences and practices around food in a range of contexts, linking these to current policy and practice perspectives.

In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations.

Introduces specific methods for parents and for therapists on how to teach parents to control difficult and oppositional adolescents.

This important book fills two interrelated gaps in the field of psychology, first by developing a Marxist orientation to psychology and second by explaining how psychological pioneer Lev Vygotsky contributed greatly to this trend.

This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.

This book explores the conceptualisation and measurement of youth quality of life in sub-Saharan Africa.

Contains questions and exercises which examine all aspects of communication disorders and give readers practice at analysing clinical linguistic data.

Currently enrolling approximately 900,000 poor children each year, Head Start has served 25 million children and their families since it was established 44 years ago.