Child Development category: 2058 books
Knowledge Development in Early Childhood
Sources of Learning and Classroom Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Synthesizing cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, this book explores how young children acquire knowledge in the "real world" and describes practical applications for early childhood classrooms. The breadth and depth of a child's knowledge base are important predictors of later...
by Hans J. Markowitsch, Harald Welzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and an autobiographical memory are all intertwined,...
The Science, and Art, of Program Dissemination: Strategies, Successes, and Challenges
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 149
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Gain a greater awareness of the processes involved in the dissemination of evidence-based interventions, as well as existing supports that help disseminate and sustain them.
Many interventions that aim to help children and adolescents are found to be efficacious every year, but program developers...
The Well-Being of America's Children
Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In 1998, the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) provided Kenneth Land a grant to explore the feasibility of producing the first national composite index of the status of American children that would chart changes in their well-being over time. Important questions needed to be answered: was it...
Resilience in Deaf Children
Adaptation Through Emerging Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Historically, the diagnosis of deafness in a child has been closely associated with profound disability, including such typical outcomes as unmet potential and a life of isolation. A major shift away from this negative view has led to improved prospects for deaf children.
Resilience in Deaf...
Representation, Memory, and Development
Essays in Honor of Jean Mandler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
A festschrift to honor Jean Mandler, this volume contains contributions from leading scholars focusing on the child's development of memory, visual representation, and language. It is appropriate for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, language acquisition, and memory.
Discussions on Child Development
Volume two
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
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 selection of those important works which have...
Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 21
Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C. Feinstein, Peter L. Giovacchini, and Arthur A. Miller, promised "to explore adolescence as a process . . . to enter challenging and exciting areas that may have profound effects on our basic concepts." Further,...
Great Psychologists as Parents
Does knowing the theory make you an expert?
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the experts practice what they preached?
Using an eclectic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Throughout history there have been efforts to help deaf children develop spoken language through which they could have full access to the hearing world. These efforts, although pursued seriously and with great care, frequently proved fruitless, and often only resulted in passionate arguments over...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For a number of decades now the study of children's memory development, with few exceptions, has been synonymous with the development of pro cesses that lead to the initial encoding and immediate retention of informa tion. Although there is little doubt that the study of such acquisition pro...
Infancy
Development from Birth to Age 3
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
The Third Edition of Infancy is a comprehensive and accessible core text for courses in infant development and early childhood development. Dana Gross’s sensitive and engaging teaching voice seamlessly weaves together research and theory with current issues of diversity and culture. This latest...
Made for Life (PLE: Emotion)
Coping, Competence and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Originally published in 1980, this title considers the relationship between feeling able to cope and being able to learn – that is, the interdependence of affect and cognition in children under five. It argues that in order to make full use of his cognitive capacities the child must first develop...
Families with Adolescents
Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Despite their flocking to social networking sites in unprecedented numbers, research confirms that adolescents continue to be influenced primarily by their families rather than their peers and other social contexts. Consequently, the family unit remains a vital setting for understanding and intervening...