Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

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.

This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to the dermatologic disorders that may be encountered in refugees and other migrants.

This volume advocates an optimistic new conceptual and practical approach to adulthood, aging, and education for individuals with intellectual disability (ID) across the lifespan.

By traveling to different parts of the world, this book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the current state of adolescent education and demonstrates how education systems are formed by and closely tied to culture.

This book examines the implications of rural residence for adolescents and families in the United States, addressing both the developmental and mental health difficulties they face.

This book is about morphogenesis as the genesis of forms.

This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This book examines the role of experience-based learning on children's acquisition of language and concepts.

This book explores diverse parent-child relationships from around the world, drawing on connections between culture and parenting values and challenges.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in the social psychology of nonverbal communication.

This handbook examines the medical and therapeutic needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the effectiveness of treatments that are delivered through interdisciplinary teams.

This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students' academic achievement.

This book provides a multi-level and multi-dimensional insight into urban water and sanitation development by analyzing sector reforms in Africa.

This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students' academic achievement.

Atypical Interaction presents a state-of-the-art overview of research which uses conversation analysis to explore how communicative impairments impact on conversation and other forms of talk and social interaction.

In a world where the global engagement and international dialogue intensifies, some areas of cultivated knowledge suffer from this dialogue and this has consequences for people and communities.

This book presents the method developed by Dr.

This book offers a unique developmental perspective on identity construction in the context of mobility and transition to adulthood.

This textbook offers a foundation for understanding adolescents' rights by articulating the complexity, breadth, and challenging nature of laws regulating adolescents.

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.

This book investigates how arts-based research methods can positively influence people's resilience and well-being, particularly in constraining environments.

This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes.

This volume explores the transition to parenthood from a holistic developmental approach, relating to barriers such as fertility problems and traumatic childbirth, as well as pathways such as positive experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.

This book takes readers on a tour of a day in the life of a public elementary school in an effort to give parents and other stakeholders a sense of the realities of the classroom.

This book provides a detailed examination of argumentative interactions in families with young children during mealtimes.

This book offers an integrated training and coaching system to facilitate change in systems that serve youth (education, healthcare, and juvenile justice).

This book focuses on those nursing skills that are truly valued and needed by children and young people with mental health problems.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.

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

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 explores diverse parent-child relationships from around the world, drawing on connections between culture and parenting values and challenges.

Many individuals worldwide initiate sexual activity during their adolescent and young adult (AYA) years and are in need of safe and effective contraceptive services.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development.

The second edition of this handbook examines family life, health, and educational issues that often arise for the millions of children in the United States whose parents are in prison or jail.

This book presents an analysis of the impact of the social crisis on the well-being of children and adolescents in Europe.

This book provides a wide spectrum of research on young children's humor and illuminates the depth and complexity of humor development in children from birth through age 8 and beyond.

This volume Psychology of Peace Promotion builds on previous volumes of peace psychology, extending its contributions by drawing from peace research and practices from five continents - Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

This book provides a broad international perspective on the psychological trauma faced by children and adolescents exposed to major disasters, and on the local public health response to their needs.

This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over an entire 50-year period beginning 1970.

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts.

This book explores the conceptualisation and measurement of youth quality of life in sub-Saharan Africa.

Working with Transgender Young People and their Families advocates a critical developmental approach aimed at countering the cisgenderism that can be perceived in previous developmental literature on gender.

This handbook examines the medical and therapeutic needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the effectiveness of treatments that are delivered through interdisciplinary teams.