Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Most of us are continually aware that others have thoughts and feelings - but are children?

This volume critically analyzes and explains the goals, processes, and effects of language policies in the United States and Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives.

Originally published in 1984, this book is a developmental psychology text with substantial evolutionary and cross-cultural work.

Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines.

The understanding and study of fathers has traditionally assumed that fathers, compared to mothers, are less involved with their children.

The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments, including dementia.

Why is it so difficult to remain married in thetwenty-first century, and what can you do about it?

This book offers various perspectives on children's spirituality and its relation to life and values education from diverse socio-cultural and educational contexts.

Grandparenting: Contemporary Perspectives is one of the first books of its kind to offer a dedicated account of the social and psychological research on this important life stage.

A Reading of Anxiety follows the sessions of Lacan's Seminar X, examining its presentation of the structure of anxiety, step by step.

Stepfamilies represent an increasing number of American households and shape the upbringing of countless stepchildren.

This is the second volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia on Stress and Coping.

Sieben Schritte, wie man die Freude bewahren, wiederfinden und aus der Freude seelische Kraft schöpfen kann.

Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human.

The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force.

Das Unterrichten von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit der Diagnose "Autismus-Spektrum-Störung" (ASS) stellt für Lehrkräfte oftmals eine Herausforderung dar, denn die Besonderheiten der Betroffenen wirken sich sowohl auf lernpsychologische Prinzipien als auch auf das soziale Miteinander im Klassenverband aus.

More than any other challenging behaviour, the sexual abuse of one child by another generates anxiety, puzzlement and confusion.

The publication of this unique three-volume set represents the culmination of years of work by a large number of scholars, researchers, and professionals in the field of moral development.

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children.

Every child is born into a community, a society with a culture, in which they will live, grow and develop.

Explains why reading disorders have been hard to identify and how mind, brain and education can help to understand them.

Originally published in 1985, the aim of this book was to examine the development of adaptive skills in a comparative context.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

This book describes the evolution of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), a major measure of ego development, from an intuitive rating scale to an empirically derived reliable and valid personality test.

First published in 1976, Caring for Elderly People rapidly established itself as a standard guide for anyone dealing on a day-to-day basis with the elderly.

This book focuses on the structure and development of conscience, a subject that has been dominant in developmental psychology since the 18th century.

The question 'how far can emotions be changed?

Is learning disability determined from birth?

First published in 1991.

This book is the first study to examine how interactional style develops within the walls of a foreign language classroom in the first two years of language study.

From the author of the nation's most popular blog on parenting gifted children comes the definitive how-to manual for parents, Raising a Gifted Child: A Parenting Success Handbook, a gifted education Legacy Award winner.

New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction.

First published in 1982.

Nowadays, it is widely accepted that there is no single influence (be it nature or nurture) on cognitive development.

This book presents a selection of multifaceted development issues involving social, economic and environmental aspects, in order to inspire and guide implementation of the United Nations' SDGs.

Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour, though, until recently, they have been difficult to subject to empirical enquiry.

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

Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate.

First published in 1985.

Choice Recommended ReadThis thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience.

The book collates the latest innovations in cognitive behavioral therapy for child and adolescent anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development.

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget's work in psychology, education and philosophy during the period 1950-90.

Advances in the fields of psychology and psychiatry have bolstered the perspective that infants are not the passive recipients of sensory stimulation as it was once thought.

Management, Operation, and Program Development in Human Services Organizations: EnvisionSMART(TM): A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation is the fourth guidebook in the EnvisionSMART(TM) series addressing leadership and management practices in human services organizations for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT) incorporates cognitive and behavioral interventions within a play therapy paradigm.

The Evidence-based Parenting Practitioner's Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge necessary to effectively deliver evidence-based parenting interventions within community and health settings.

This essential book shows practitioners how they can engage with teens' online lives to support their mental health.