Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Developmental and Educational Psychology for Teachers brings together a range of evidence drawn from psychology to answer a number of critical educational questions, from basic questions of readiness - for example, when is a child ready for school, through to more complex matters, such as how does a teacher understand and promote good peer relationships in their classroom?

Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: PsychologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016OCR Publishing Partner Helps your students build their knowledge of the core studies and applied topics for OCR Psychology with a clear, organised approach; activities, practice questions and extension suggestions develop the skills required at A Level- Supports you and your students through the new OCR A Level specification, with an author team experienced in teaching and examining OCR Psychology- Helps students easily navigate the core studies and associated themes and perspectives with an organised, accessible approach- Develops knowledge and understanding of all the Applied Psychology topics, with background, key studies and applications- Develops the critical thinking, mathematical and problem-solving skills required for the study of Psychology through a wealth of targeted activities- Strengthens students' learning and progression with practice questions and extension activities

This book provides a chapter-by-chapter update to and reflection on of the landmark volume by J.

ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed childhood behavioral disorder.

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

Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world.

In the late 1980s, an increasing proportion of all prescribed medicines went to people over 65 years of age, not only because they constituted a growing sector of the population but also because their consumption rate, unlike that of younger people was increasing.

Featuring children's voices describing the trauma and suffering they feel when their parents leave, Abandoned explores psychological theories of mothers' and fathers' roles in children's lives and offers practical advice to those who care for children traumatized by parental abandonment.

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.

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience.

One of the most profound insights of the dynamic systems perspective is that new structures resulting from the developmental process do not need to be planned in advance, nor is it necessary to have these structures represented in genetic or neurological templates prior to their emergence.

This book highlights how it is increasingly important that nurses and other health and social care professionals working with or caring for children and young people (CYP) can contribute to the care and support these vulnerable individuals need.

In this book, leading behavioral scientists describe advances in research on regulatory influences that govern the development of childhood behavior problems.

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development.

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This volume seeks to identify and define the parameters of a relatively new problem area -- parental development.

Meet Jamie, a young boy with ADHD and a tic disorder called Tourette Syndrome.

The opening of the borders to Eastern Europe has expanded our view on European diversities and offered new opportunities to examine the effects of the heterogeneity in European cultural backgrounds and political systems on personality and social development.

This book considers the cognitive, behavioural and socio-emotional aspects of autism in relation to music perception, musical engagement and music production.

The seven articles in this special issue represent a sampling of the exciting findings that are beginning to emerge from studies of executive control in young children.

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, involved in classification, learning, problem-solving and creative thinking, and should be a basic building block of cognitive development.

Die kreativen Beiträge des Bandes verdeutlichen, wie wichtig es ist, sich mit den Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten gelingender und misslingender Transformationen in dieser so entscheidenden Lebensphase differenziert auseinanderzusetzen.

From the Preface: "e;The purpose of this book is to present the state-of-the-art of the study of the self-concept in Eastern and Western Europe.

Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people's knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs.

This handbook examines advances in the evidence-based behavioral family intervention, parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT).

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and educational perspective.

Piaget-A Practical Consideration deals with the general theories and work of Jean Piaget, with an account of a short follow up study of his work on the development of the concept of geometry.

This volume covers the 22nd Annual Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology.

This book echoes and enhances the generative, dialogic, knowledge-building process that took place at the AMLE 2021 conference, reflecting the way in which middle-level researchers work collaboratively and draw ideas and inspiration for their studies from prior research and accounts of practice, as well as their own experiences in the field.

How to Live Well with Dementia: Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Care Partners provides an array of essential guidance about the different aspects of dementia for all whose lives are touched by dementia, including people living with dementia and their support network.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

Das Buch widmet sich umfassend dem Thema Kreativität.

How will you respond when your child makes a decision you don't agree with?

Recipient of the 2014 International Association for Relationship Researchers Book Award!

Verständlich, wohl strukturiert und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele führt das Buch in die Resilienzförderung und Präventionsarbeit mit Kindern ein.

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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.

Based on the proceedings of the twelfth biennial conference on life-span developmental psychology, most of the contributions in this volume deal with the mechanisms of everyday cognition.

In this landmark work, Richard Lazarus -- one of the world's foremost authorities -- offers a comprehensive treatment of the psychology of emotion, its role in adaptation, and the issues that must be addressed to understand it.

Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition.

Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School: Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas is for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language.

Ob Onlinerollenspiele, Adventure Games, Strategie- oder Shooterspiele, Musikprogramme oder soziale Netzwerke: Viele Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene sind von der Vielfalt des World Wide Web begeistert und verbringen ihre Freizeit gerne vor dem Bildschirm.

Like Stephen Krashen's important work in The Power of Reading, Story Proof collects and analyzes the research that validates the importance of story, story reading, and storytelling to the brain development and education of children and adults.

Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience.

This handbook illustrates the depth and breadth of human rights research, intervention models, and advocacy by psychologists.

Morten Frederiksen explores Carl Gustav Jung's elusive notion of synchronicity from a transrational perspective and relates synchronicity to the transpersonality of the "e;All-One"e;.

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

As societies are experiencing increasing levels of immigration from contexts outside of the Western, industrialized world, child care programs are experiencing, simultaneously, increasing diversity in enrollment.