Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book examines the implications of discrimination in Arab American youth with a focus on K-12 school systems.

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults.

This book examines the associated experiences of school bullying and violence among vulnerable and marginalized youth.

This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the impact of human-animal interaction on well-being from childhood to later life.

 This book addresses important topics of coaching in order to better understand what sports coaching is and the challenges that arise when assuming this activity.

This book examines the relationship between educational psychology and neuropsychology.

This book examines the evidence-based interventions that can be used to promote creative thinking skills for children and adolescents in schools.

Finally, everything about ADHD in adolescents is in one place.

The book presents an empirical model of commonly occurring individual differences in children that is derived from a large-scale research effort assessing parental and teacher perceptions of children in middle childhood.

This book examines the complex impact of prenatal stress and the mechanism of its transmission on children's development and well-being, including prenatal programming, epigenetics, infl ammatory processes, and the brain-gut microbiome.

This book explores the shifting geographies and contexts of children's play and learning.

This book presents original research examining parents' perspectives on the structure, content and delivery of parenting programmes.

This book examines the use of "e;Communities That Care"e; (CTC) interventions in European countries.

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

This book brings together eminent and emerging scholars to present cutting-edge research on diverse conceptions of giftedness and talent from a range of international perspectives.

This book explores humanising practice within higher education (HE).

This unique volume explores issues related to working with children who have nonverbal learning disability (NVLD).

This book presents a concise yet comprehensive survey of methods used in the expanding studies of human evolution, paying particular attention to new work on social evolution.

This book focuses beyond the bully-victim dyad to highlight how bullying commonly unfolds within a complex system that involves many individuals interacting with one another.

This book addresses what teachers and school leaders from a dozen countries see as the social and emotional strengths, interests and needs of adolescents in their schools and communities; how they innovate their programs and practices to respond to their students' lives.

This brief approaches the challenging topic of child sexual abuse from an objective, evidence-based perspective.

This book explores what it means to live a purposeful life and outlines the benefits associated with purpose across different life domains.

This book examines family interactions and relationships during the transition to parenthood.

Humans have a unique ability to understand the beliefs, emotions, and intentions of others-a capacity often referred to as mentalizing.

This volume brings together trends and their prospects to understand the complexity of metacognitive phenomena, with emphasis on the interactions of metacognition with affect.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the impact of fathers on child development from prenatal years to age five.

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.

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 examines the role that human subjective experience plays in the creation of reality and introduces a new concept, the Bubble Universe, to describe the universe as it looks from the subjective viewpoint of an individual.

This book traces the evolutionary trajectory of language and teaching from the earliest periods of human evolution to the present day.

Based on leading empirical psychological research from around the world, this book offers valuable insights on women who sell sex.

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migration, and other circumstances of collective violence.

This handbook addresses behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities.

This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds.

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings.

This unique resource is designed to be a practical, user-friendly guide for pediatricians, primary care providers, and all healthcare providers who work with children with autism spectrum disorder.

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

This book intends to translate into theoretical, methodological and practical language the principles of dialogical psychology.

Human trafficking is an increasingly large issue in medicine, particularly for the adolescent population.

This volume adopts a context-informed framework exploring risk, maltreatment, well-being and protection of children in diverse groups in Israel.

The second edition of the handbook examines advances in therapeutic approaches for behavioral, developmental, and emotional problems in children.

This engaging book provides a novel examination of the nature of addiction, suggesting that by exploring akrasia-the tendency to act against one's better judgement-we can better understand our addictive behaviors.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations.

The handbook synthesizes the comprehensive interdisciplinary research on the psychological and behavioral dimensions of life before, during, and immediately after birth.

This edited collection offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective into the many factors that go into designing, facilitating, expanding, and assessing experiential learning (EL) from the perspective of faculty and staff educators.

This book examines early interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the goal to enable primary care physicians as well as other clinicians, therapists, and practitioners to assist parents in making informed decisions based on current research.

This volume is a practical resource for all those responsible for caring for older people across health and social care.

Adolescent homelessness is a growing problem that results in a variety of health challenges.

The second edition of this book brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of training interventions designed to improve cognitive functions in different target populations.

This book examines the adaptive aspects of shyness.