Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

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.

As a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage's scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years.

This collection offers an in-depth study of children''s peer talk and its potential impact on children''s learning.

This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand.

In this volume and its companion Adolescence: The Crises of Adjustment, originally published in 1975, members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, together with other leading experts on the subject, present a unique study of adolescence.

Published in 1985, Childrens Searching is a valubale contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

Now in its fourth edition, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a practice- oriented and accessible resource for clinical psychologists in training.

Depression is a recurrent, debilitating and sometimes fatal disorder that may first effect children between the ages of 9 and 12.

Dieses Lehrbuch bildet das psychologische Anwendungsfach „Pädagogische Psychologie“ in seiner ganzen Breite ab.

Ab wann sollten Kinder und Jugendliche welche Medien mit welchen Inhalten nutzen?

Methods, Measures, and Theories in Eyewitness Recognition Tasks provides a comprehensive review of the fundamental issues surrounding eyewitness recognition phenomena alongside suggestions for developing a more methodologically rigorous eyewitness science.

This timely volume brings together well-established scholars and emerging voices to explore research methods and ethics in Neurodiversity Studies.

Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural environment in a safe and ethical way.

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with an untreatable illness.

Difference, Dialogue, and Development is an in-depth exploration of the collected works of Mikhail Bakhtin to find relevance of key concepts of dialogism for understanding various aspects of human development.

While in the late 1970s and early 1980s health compliance research on adults represented a vigorous field of study, a marked decline of interest on the topic set in during the last part of the 1980s.

A Co-publication of the National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge.

From award-winning author Tara L.

Mit spannenden Kurzbiographien von Genies und Höchstbegabten: Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Pablo Picasso, Leo Tolstoi, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs und viele mehr.

This book examines the challenges faced by developmental scientists as the population under the age of 18 in the United States has become a majority-minority, with no racial/ethnic group having a numeric majority.

Die häusliche Lernumwelt stellt den Kontext dar, in dem die allermeisten Kinder weltweit aufwachsen und in dem sie wesentliche Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen erwerben.

Psychiatry and clinical psychology have long been divided about the roles of nature and nurture in the pathways to psychopathology.

Frequently cited in scholarly books and journals and praised by students, this book focuses on developmental changes and processes in adolescence rather than on the details and problems of daily life.

The Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development presents a comprehensive summary of research into child development from age two to seven.

This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA.

In this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodaly Today, Micheal Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer an expertly-researched, thorough, and -- most importantly -- practical approach to transforming curriculum goals into tangible, achievable musical objectives and effective lesson plans.

The Progress in Infancy Research Series is dedicated to the presentation of innovative and exciting research on infants, both human and animal.

They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans.

This book provides a philosophical, socio-political and theoretical understanding of the notion of Becoming in the context of the related concepts, and in contemplation of the notion of Being.

Positive Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency examines the main mechanisms involved in improving mental health in children and adolescents, including social and biological processes, as well as effective treatments.

Recent SLA research recognizes the necessity of attention to grammar and demonstrates that form-focused instruction is especially effective when it is incorporated into a meaningful communicative context.

Most children master emotion regulation skills during their early childhood, though, increasingly, many enter school with mild or serious deficits that may not be addressed effectively or early enough.

Originally published in 1984, a major purpose of this book was to bring together in a single volume, work that reflects the wide range of interests that social and behavioural scientists have in play, development and the environment.

This edited collection focuses on different aspects of everyday violence, harassment and threats in schools.

Working memory is the cognitive system in charge of the temporary maintenance of information in view of its on-going processing.

Prävention kann zur Verbesserung der Entwicklungschancen von Kindern mehr beitragen als jede Therapie und Rehabilitation.

For more than a decade, there has been growing interest in the role of emotions in academic settings.

This second, thoroughly updated edition of The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media analyzes a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media.

The importance of partnerships between professionals and the parents of children with special needs/disability is well established in childcare legislation.

Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.

Describes how intellectual development of bilingual children differs from that of monolingual children.

Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce.

This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development.

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to pick up the pace?

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 63 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.