Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Pulitzer Prize-winning design critic Alexandra Lange's eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development, from building blocks to city blocks.

Medical issues in schools are a growing reality.

This international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross-cultural psychology.

Winner - 6th Annual Beverly Hills Book Award for Relationships and Parenting & Families Award Finalist in the "e;Parenting & Family"e; category of the 2017 Best Book Awards Finalist, 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Memoirs—Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy Linda Atwell and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey—a high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities—have always had a complicated relationship.

When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her.

Indie Reader Discovery Awards Winner for Parenting National Indie Excellence Award Finalist Hollywood Book Festival 2016 Honorable mention in general non-fiction Bookvana 2016 Finalist in Parenting/Family Bronze Medal Winner Inspirational Memoir-Female Living Now Book Awards-Books for Better Living When LeeAndra Chergey is told that her son, Ryan, is no longer considered ';normal,' she and her family are forced into a new way of handling the outside world.

Elizabeth Barker spent years planning and working hard to achieve her version of the American dream - one that is supposed to culminate in parenthood and the role of supermom.

Running a clinic for seniors requires a lot more than simply providing medical care.

Odile Atthalin was a young woman from a prominent, bourgeois family in Paris when she decided to leave home in search of meaning.

Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr.

In a world where armed conflict, repression, and authoritarian rule are too frequent, human rights and peace-building present key concepts and agendas for the global and local struggle for peace and development.

The quest to escape authority has been a persistent feature of the modern world, animating liberals and Marxists, Westerners and non-Westerners alike.

Women have been adding their voices to the proclamation of the gospel for as long as there has been a gospel to proclaim, but only in the last half-century have these voices become part of the official catalogue of Christian preaching.

The Spirit of Adoption explores many of the complexities inherent in adoption and its relationship to spirituality, challenging us to move beyond the common mythologies about adoption to consider the more difficult questions adoption raises about the nature of God, family, culture, loss, and joy.

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Erik Erikson, best known for his life-cycle theory and concept of the identity crisis, proposed that we are comprised of a number of selves.

As Protestant denominations are fracturing over whether to ordain gays and lesbians, this work looks at The United Methodist Church's conversations about the issue, in light of Methodism's historic contests over the leadership of African Americans and women, to see what can be learned from these earlier periods of change.

- Is a powerful position a guarantee that a religion will continue?

What theologies are popular and formative of Christian thinking in the present day?

The African-American community represents a paradox of sorts.

The Peaceable Kingdom Series is a multivolume series that seeks to challenge the pervasive violence assumed necessary in relation to humans, nonhumans, and the larger environment.

A war is always a moral event.

"e;Religion and ecology"e; has arrived.

An international cast of theologians come together in this volume to offer essays in tribute to the late Stanley J.

This book briefly characterizes the many different ways Christianity is currently understood and practiced.

An ethics of timing--each moment in time requires a responsible answer.

Armies know all about killing.

Rather than embracing the conflict around gay relationships as an opportunity for the church to talk honestly about human sexuality, Christians continue to hurt one another with the same tired arguments that divide us along predictable political battle lines.

Two and a half years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, New Orleans and south Louisiana continue to struggle in an unsettled gumbo of environmental, social, and rebuilding chaos.

In Spirit Unleashed, Anne Benvenuti uses analysis of real encounters with wild animals to take us on an intellectual tour of our thinking about animals by way of biological sciences, scientific psychology, philosophy, and theology to show that we have been wrong in our understanding of ourselves amongst other animals.

In the Fray collects David Gushee's most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual.

The Bible teems with nonhuman life, from its opening pages with God's creation of animals on the same day and out of the same earth as humans to its closing apocalyptic scenes of horses riding out of the sky.

The nation-state is here to stay.

In refreshing challenge to the common presumption that knowing involves amassing information, this book offers an eight-step approach that begins with love and pledge and ends with communion and shalom.

We kill.

Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics is a well-accepted approach to contemporary bioethics.

What is faith?

In the fall of 1964, Trappist monk Thomas Merton prepared to host an unprecedented gathering of peace activists.

In December 2012, the U.

Does social justice promote Christian unity?

The discussions about subject and validation in our late modernity tend to oscillate between the "e;weak"e; self of postmodernity ("e;empty"e; or "e;rhetorical"e;) and neo-Cartesian versions trying, as they do, to recover a discredited foundation.

Two trends in the early twenty-first-century intersect to give this volume immediate relevance: 1) The emerging postmodern ethos in North America is calling into question many things we have taken for granted, including the purposes of the church; and 2) our time is increasingly fractious as groups with distinct worldviews become polarized and often antagonistic.

While it is readily admitted that we learn in order to do, we are in need of guidance.

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity.

Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact.

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming.

A professional behavioral witness to more than a hundred capital trials explores the making of a murderer.

My Own Thoughts and Feelings (for Boys) is a creative, child-friendly program designed for use with elementary school boys, filled with illustrations and original exercises to foster healing, self-understanding, and optimal growth.

This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma.

Play therapy and family therapy both are well established therapeutic paradigms.