Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book, the first in a series of collected works, traces the evolution of Problem Behavior Theory from its inception to its current status as a widely used framework for understanding and addressing risky behavior in youth and young adults.

This book reviews broad social changes affecting youth development and the inconsistency of the legal system in updating its approach to adolescents' rights.

This book introduces current theories and research on disability, and builds on the premise that disability has to be understood from the dialectical dynamics of biology, psychology, and culture over time.

This invaluable reference introduces successful strengths-based programs for aiding families of young children in critical social contexts: family, school, community, and policy.

This volume explores in depth how infants-perhaps as young as three months-develop the capacity to appreciate, participate in, and create humor.

This book begins with a discussion of the human life cycle and then uses that discussion and other ideas to paint a general picture of what human lives are like.

This book describes and explains how digital technologies enter adolescents' everyday life and learning in different contexts and environments.

Teen Computer Interaction is concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of technologies for teenagers and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world.

The second edition of this encyclopedia continues to break new ground as an important resource for the study of adolescence.

This book provides medical care givers with detailed information on those aspects of adolescence that are of significance in the setting of congenital heart disease (CHD), from anatomic and physiologic changes to behavioral issues.

This book examines early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) programs for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This book discusses the burgeoning world of young children's exposure to educational media and its myriad implications for research, theory, practice, and policy.

This landmark volume introduces the new series ofproceedings from the Viktor Frankl Institute, dedicated to preserving the past,disseminating the present, and anticipating the future of Franklian existentialpsychology and psychotherapy, i.

This book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of research on psychosocial skills, examining both theory and areas of application.

This handbook discusses early childhood special education (ECSE), with particular focus on evidence-based practices.

This book discusses the relationship between juvenile disability and delinquency, including characteristics of youth with disabilities, how disability relates to delinquency, and its impact during a youth's involvement with the juvenile justice system.

This book grasps the duality between opportunities and risks which arise from children's and adolescents' social media use.

This interdisciplinary volume offers theoretical, empirical,and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic healthissues.

This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants.

The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization.

This book provides an overview of fetal psychobiological research, focusing on brain and behavior, genetic and epigenetic factors affecting both short and long-term development, and technological breakthroughs in the field.

Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy.

This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective.

This volume focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research.

This book presents emerging research on the effectiveness of mindfulness methods in reducing behavior problems associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children.

Focusing on two central themes--the psychobiological evolution from youth to adult and the effects of drugs on the developing central nervous system--this important reference elucidates the mechanisms of chemical dependency in adolescents.

This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives.

This book presents the results of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development.

This book explores research on processes that influence family-school partnerships in support of student learning and education.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the current research on sexual grooming.

This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues.

This reference examines the wide-ranging impact of militarylife on families, parenting, and child development.

This Brief synthesizes findings from recent experiments on jealousy in infants with insights from pioneering thinkers in developmental science.

Cet ouvrage est la première tentative de présenter une analyse approfondie et synthétisant des théories phénoménologique de Marc Richir.

This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan.

This volume provides a critical roadmap through the major historical sources of legal semiotics as we know them today.

Based on decades of established research findings in cognitive and developmental psychology, this volume explores and integrates the leading scientific advances into infancy and brain-memory linkages as well as autobiographical and strategic memory.

This edited book summarizes the current state of knowledge on the development of criminal and antisocial behavior over the life course.

The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families.

Arnheim, Gestalt and Art is the first book-length discussion of the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim.

Die Fremdunterbringung in Pflegefamilien stellt eine wichtige Hilfe zur Erziehung dar.

Die Fremdunterbringung in Pflegefamilien stellt eine wichtige Hilfe zur Erziehung dar.

Emotionally competent children and young adults are able to recognize emotions in themselves and others and articulate them verbally, expressing their feelings and, if necessary, regulating them.

Emotionally competent children and young adults are able to recognize emotions in themselves and others and articulate them verbally, expressing their feelings and, if necessary, regulating them.

Bildung und Lernen bis ins hohe Alter hinein sind lebenswichtig: Sie dienen als Schlüssel zur Gestaltung des gesellschaftlichen Wandels und fördern individuelle Sinnerfüllung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte.

Übersichtlich und anschaulich bietet das vorliegende Lehrbuch einen fundierten Überblick über zentrale Ansätze und aktuelle Theorien der Entwicklungspsychologie.