Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Identifying athletic talent and developing that talent to its full potential is a central concern in sport.

Parent-directed aggression and violence by children is a complex issue and may not be explained by focusing upon a single factor.

One of the major domestic policy issues of our time is whether our nation can provide a more effective educational experience for our children.

This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making.

Adolescents have unique nutritional needs when compared to young children and adults.

This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender.

This is a story for children who have lost someone they love.

Connects development, learning, and societal conditions with care and motivation for children and young people.

This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy.

The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C) and Adolescents (UP-A) are evidence-based interventions originally designed to target core dysfunctions underlying emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depressive disorders, in children and adolescents.

Safe Passage: A Guide to Addressing School Violence offers expert perspectives and guidance in understanding, assessing, and addressing school violence.

The popular image, derived from Piaget, of the child as a solitary thinker struggling to construct a personal understanding of the mathematical and logical properties of the physical world has given way in recent years to a view of children's learning and thinking as embedded in social relationships.

Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

This book illuminates the successful implementations of one of the few evidence-based parenting intervention programs.

Attachment theory has become a key focus of both research and practice in understanding and treating psychological and social risk for marital and relationship problems, parenting and clinical disorders.

Whether you see a preschooler laughing or crying, hugging or tugging on a playmate, taking risks or seeking comfort from an adult, you know that they are developing their emotional skills and growing up in so many ways every day.

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives.

A Therapist's Guide to Adolescent Development is a practical guide to understanding adolescent development and applying that knowledge in therapeutic practice.

Understanding Intellectual Disability: A Guide for Professionals and Parents supports professionals and parents in understanding critical concepts, correct assessment procedures, delicate and science-infused communication practices and treatment methods concerning children with intellectual disabilities.

Provides the understanding and tools needed to help free yourself from perinatal anxiety, with clear examples and evidence-based techniques.

The collected papers from the most prestigious symposia in the field of child development provide scholars, students, and practitioners with access to the work of key researchers in human development.

Originally published in 1975, this volume contains original reports of new models and data in the areas of propositional reasoning, syllogistic reasoning, and transitive inference in children and adults of the time.

Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties serves to provide an explanation of the complex workings of inner family life.

We acquire concepts such as "e;atom,"e; "e;force,"e; "e;integer,"e; and "e;democracy"e; long after we are born; these concepts are not part of the initial cognitive state of human beings.

The Abilities and Achievements of Orientals in North America is concerned with the study of the abilities, achievements, and personality characteristics of oriental immigrants and their descendants in North America.

This book was first published in 1967.

This volume showcases cutting-edge scholarship from The Big Questions in Free Will project, funded by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and directed by Alfred R.

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

Perceiving the Affordances is a personal history and intellectual autobiography of Eleanor Gibson, the groundbreaking research psychologist who was influential in the founding of the theory of perceptual development.

Ours is a society in which thinness, particularly in women, is idealized, even at the cost of health.

Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004.

Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma.

The authors have grouped the theories into three classical "e;families"e; which differ in their views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature.

Focusing on theory and therapeutic factors and applications, this work will provide group leaders and counselors working with children with a conceptual basis and specific strategies for use in therapy, counseling, and therapeutic groups.

This book is a result of a study group that met to discuss the child's theory of mind.

With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, Professor Erikson has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human behaviour.

This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers.

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece.

In Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Xiaofei Lu comprehensively reviews empirical studies that employ corpus linguistic methods to investigate issues in second language variation, processing, production, and development.

The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society.

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups--Finnish, Greek, and Korean.

Understanding Your Gifted Child From the Inside Out provides an engaging and encouraging look at raising gifted children today.

from the Foreword:Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others.

This book offers a fascinating yet disturbing account of the significance of racism in the lives of five and six year old children, drawing upon data from an in-depth study of an inner-city, multi-ethnic primary school and its surrounding community.

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children.

For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them.

The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Literacy brings together state-of-the-art research on literacy learning among deaf and hard of hearing learners (DHH).