Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

Jean Piagets Theorie der Entwicklung des menschlichen Denkens ist ein Meilenstein in der Psychologie und Pädagogik.

Are you a human?

This book brings together key authors from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) to discuss theoretical and empirical research on families and children.

Spirituality is increasingly acknowledged to be an essential part of child development.

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Lernen ist ein allgegenwärtiges Phänomen.

This engaging book is a comprehensive exploration of children's happiness and success covering a wide range of factors influencing positive functioning.

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective.

Originally published between 1928 and 1987, the volumes in this set provide an interesting look back at how psychology has developed as a discipline and some of the problems it has encountered along the way.

This inspiring book for teens and young women explores what it means to listen to God's voice, better understand the ';vibes' and intuition the Spirit uses as guidance, and live a life that proclaims your heavenly truth.

Ideal for psychology, food science and nutrition students at a variety of levels, this text provides a unique lifespan perspective to guide students through nutrition and cognitive performance.

Introductory Psychology and the Human Condition provides an engaging, cohesive, and practical treatment of traditional psychological principles and theories.

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in early childhood and elementary years.

This Handbook illustrates how gender, ethnicity, age, and even sexual orientation and understanding influence the health practices and risk factors for health problems in diverse groups of people.

Easy language and preliteracy assessment instruments for childcare professionals without a speech/language degree.

Mentalization in the Family draws upon the latest research on child development, parenting, and mentalization theory to provide a comprehensive guidebook for parents, teachers, social workers, and any professional working with families today.

This text integrates the theory and practice of learner-based assessment.

An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language.

This authoritative collection sets out the critical role and application of evaluation in identifying and developing good practice in a range of dementia care settings.

This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta.

In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minority background.

Volume 40 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 10 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area.

It's 10pm, the golden hour.

Technological innovations have advanced at an incredible speed since the introduction of the computer that it has altered the fabric of our society.

Whether it's having to remove tags from clothing or using special dimmed lighting when they study, kids with sensory disorders or special sensory needs often need adaptations in their everyday lives in order to find success in school and beyond.

The definitive reference in the field--now significantly revised with 75% new material--this volume examines typical and atypical development from birth to the preschool years and identifies what works in helping children and families at risk.

Parents, caregivers and educators are often at a loss about how best to support an individual with autism because they are overwhelmed by 'behaviours', inundated with prognoses and clinical jargon, or confused by technical information.

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition, development, education, aesthetics, personality, motivation, and vocations have developed intriguing ideas about what interest is and how it works.

Psychology of the Americas: Mestizo Perspectives on Personality and Mental Health presents the framework for a personality psychology and psychiatry of the Americas.

Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Ninth Edition, provides a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest and most important advances and themes in modern biogerontology.

Säuglinge und Kleinkinder, die exzessiv schreien, quengeln und Probleme mit dem Schlafen und Essen haben, können Eltern an ihre Belastungsgrenzen bringen.

This book reflects on the various ways in which intelligence can manifest itself in the wide range of diverse contexts in which people live.

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book.

The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.

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In Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character without Idealization, Howard J.

Science depends on noticing that things which seem identical are different, and conversely.

New York Times bestselling author Martin E.

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "e;initial state"e; of the human organism.

This volume's unifying theme is the question: Is a concept of development relevant to art?

Explains the neurological, emotional, and behavioral impacts of violence and trauma experienced by newborns, infants, children, and teenagers.

Part of the Reading Well scheme.

This volume has two purposes.