Child, developmental and lifespan psychology Books

Wie entstehen Bilder? Wie entwickeln sich Bilder in ihrer Frühzeit, in der Onto- wie in der Phylogenese? Sind frühe Bilder durchgängig von einer einzelnen Kultur bestimmt, oder weisen sie kulturübergreifende Eigenheiten auf? Steht die Entwicklung von...

Ever wondered what will happen to your Special Needs Child when you are gone?Has the thought of your Child's future kept you awake at night?Have you been fraught with worry thinking about your Child's employment and medical evaluations after you have...

…a fun read. Serious yet prepared with a light and accessible touch. Highly informative. It covers a substantial range of material in a jargon-free manner while explaining core ideas, a rare trait! The volume will appeal to a broad range of people...

Your attitude makes or breaks you in life. We all have attitudes that are toxic and damaging to our lives, and we all have healthy attitudes that help us to experience life in full.Have you ever wondered what the worst, most toxic attitudes are? Have you...

StayFast is a self-help book designed to help you achieve your goals through ambitious affirmations.

Why a text on neuroscience and Christian formation? Simply put, we need one thatrepresents the range of possible intersections for today and into the future. In recentyears, neuroscience’s various fields of study have influenced our understanding...

Why a text on neuroscience and Christian formation? Simply put, we need one thatrepresents the range of possible intersections for today and into the future. In recentyears, neuroscience’s various fields of study have influenced our understanding...

The branch of psychology which focuses on human learning is known as educational psychology. It is associated with the study of memory, conceptual processes and differences between individuals for the purpose of formulating new strategies for learning...

Educational and developmental psychology are the two branches of psychology that are respectively concerned with the scientific study of human learning, and the processes and reasons through which human beings change over time. Educational psychology...

Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violenceAggression is a part of human nature that energises our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to...

Making the Best of Our Children: Second Series, Eight to Sixteen Years of Age is a parenting guidebook written by Mary Wood-Allen in 1909. This book is a continuation of the first series and focuses on the developmental stages of children aged eight to...

Originally published in 1940, this book was addressed to students of the psychology of childhood and to parents and teachers who were trying to get from psychology some light on problems of discipline and of the difficult child. It includes critical...

This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was marked by a clear and irreversible change in condition, we are...

Growing Points in Developmental Science is an ISSBD publication based on the millennium symposia papers published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development in 2000. This collection of overview chapters summarises the state of the art and the...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a...

En la presente obra, la autora contempla un caso clínico, con el cual muchos pueden identificarse, con un patrón de conducta que ella describe como recurrente, que ha sido implementado por años, resultando no ser fructífero. Cada párrafo está escrito de...

"Voices United: Collective Excellence in Autism" is a powerful collection of real-life stories and experiences told by mothers, clinicians, siblings, educators, and resource professionals who have raised and cared for children with autism. Through their...

An empowering guide for parents and teachers seeking a positive, practical alternative to the confusion and struggles of middle school."A must-read for anyone who has a tween or works with tweens." - Madeline Levine, New York Times bestselling...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, ( Atlantic International University ), language: English, abstract: The main objective of this study was to conduct an empirical investigation to...

In the journey of life, we often find ourselves at crossroads, facing choices that define not just our paths but who we are and who we become. "The Mind-Body Connection: The Keys to Unlocking Your Full Potential" is not just a book; it's a light at the...

Dr. Tony Attwood and Craig Evans are pleased to introduce "Ask Dr. Tony," their second book together. The book is a compilation of fifty episodes of the Autism Hangout question-and-answer program video series in which Dr. Tony Attwood...

Every day adolescent girls face a complex and challenging social world influenced by popularity. As parents, we benefit from having the resources to help our daughters navigate times of difficulty and vulnerability, because with the right support, these...

Neuroscientific evidence reveals that childcare centres are high stress environments which can disrupt the brain's emotional developmental circuitry during critical phases, impacting a child's later ability to flourish. At the same time evidence also...

Aging and Social Policy in the United States guides students through an exploration of social policies and policymaking that address the needs of older adults and their families. It situates the experiences of older adults in the context of their...

As the number of children diagnosed with ADHD grows, this book brings attention to the many challenges faced by parents who have ADHD-diagnosed children and other behavioural or learning disabilities. The author provides usable tips on how...

Un embarazo perfectamente normal resulta en una cesárea de emergencia y la noticia aterradora de que la pequeña Paige probablemente no sobreviviría. En lugar de creer a los médicos, la mamá primeriza, Sharon Richardson decide que Dios tendría la última...

College Student Psychological Adjustment: Theory, Methods, and Statistical Trends introduces the reader to the college adjustment process, highlighting the many challenges facing college students today. The four chapters review recent trends in college...

Here is a collection of the first fifty plus initial blogs of Kim Greenblatt from his profitable blog. The book is written in a continuous blog format in reverse order so you can read the articles chronologically. The blog with ongoing posts can be found...

What happens if you have everything, but you still feel empty?Robert Althuis's life began as a fairy tale-successful career, amazing wife, tremendous wealth-until it all fell apart. His relentless pursuit of more had ruined his life.Never Enoughitis...

Este libro, por la relevancia de sus temas, merece ser leído de principio a fin. Empieza con el tema que trata sobre la soledad de los niños, soledad que les mueve a refugiarse en sus cuartos, acompañados de esos amigos perniciosos e instructivos a la...

Anxiety in Schools presents current theory and research addressing both context- and content-specific contributions to anxieties experienced in schools. The concept of academic anxiety is a new construct, formed through the content within this book, and...

A Must-Read For Parents With TeenagersIn this concise and unique program, psychotherapist and teen expert Frank Shapiro leads you past behavior management into the realm of character development - but it's not your teenager who has to change. It's you,...

This book presents a longitudinal study dealing with developmental changes within and between self-concepts and their relation to personal functioning. Within the psychological literature -- and the developmental literature in particular -- the interest...

Although current views of cognitive development owe a great deal to Jean Piaget, this field has undergone profound change in the years since Piaget's death. This can be witnessed both in the influence connectionist and dynamical system models have...

This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number of figures, has been preserved in order to...

Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children...

This volume evolved from the second life span development conference held at Southern Illinois University entitled "Assessment and Intervention Across the Lifespan." Providing an overview and consideration of important directions for research in areas of...

Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies brings together recent critical investigations which examine historical and textual inaccuracies associated with received understandings of Vygotsky's work. By deconstructing the Vygotskian narrative, the...

In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of...

Concepts lie at the heart of our mental life, supporting a myriad of cognitive functions - including thinking and reasoning, object recognition, memory, and language comprehension and production. The nature of concepts and their representation in the...

This Special Issue encompasses studies of a wide range of developmental disorders, including Specific Language Impairment (SLI), reading disability, Williams Syndrome, hearing impairment and autistic disorder. Chiat contributes a theoretical analysis of...

Working memory refers to the temporary storage and manipulation of information that is being processed in a wide range of cognitive tasks. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Development brings together research on the...

Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls...

In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, entitled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture where people "came of age" with a minimum of "storm and stress." In 1983, Derek Freeman, an Australian...