Child Development category: 2058 books
Expository Discourse in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Development and Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Theory of Mind Development in Context is the first book of its kind to explore how children’s environments shape their theory of mind and, in turn, their ability to interact effectively with others. Based on world-leading research, and inspired by the ground-breaking work of Candida Peterson, the...
Culture and Human Development
The Importance of Cross-Cultural Research for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
As intercultural encounters between people in the modern world become more common, important questions have been raised about the nature of culture-specific differences and similarities. Focusing on the relationship between culture and human development, this timely book offers an interdisciplinary...
Narrative Development in Adolescence
Creating the Storied Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Monisha Pasupathi and Kate C. McLean Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? Narrative Identity in Adolescence How can we help youth move from childhood to adulthood in the most effective and positive way possible? This is a question that parents, educators, researchers, and policy makers engage...
Little Kids, Big Dilemmas
Your parenting problems solved by science
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Fed up with conflicting advice? This book offers real answers to the following questions and more…
Can sleep training harm my baby?
Is screen time bad for my child?
Is breast always best?
Psychologist Dr Sarah Kuppen, expert in early child development, uses her scientific...
by Jean Piaget
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Over a period of six decades, Jean Piaget conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development.
The Colors of Childhood
Separation-Individuation across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? Are there culturally distinct sub-groups within the African-American population? How ubiquitous are psychoanalytically...
Human Security
Some Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
During his lifetime, W.E. Blatz was so much occupied with the development of the University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study that he was able to devote little time to writing. This is his first book to appear in twenty-one years, and his first complete exposition of his famous Theory of Security.
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by Erica Burman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.
Since...
Ready to Learn
How to Help Your Preschooler Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Do you tell your preschooler one thing and they do the opposite? Are they easily distracted or unable to focus? If you suspect that your child may have a learning problem--or if you simply want to help them be ready--here is the book to read before he or she enters the school system: a realistic,...
Neo-Piagetian Theories of Cognitive Development
Implications and Applications for Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Piagetian theory was once considered able to describe the structure and development of human thought. As a result, it generated an enthusiasm that it could direct education to develop new teaching methods, particularly in science and mathematics. However, disillusionment with Piagetian theory came...
The Developing Individual in a Changing World
Volume 2, Social and Environmental Isssues
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As psychologists began to study the individual's development more broadly, they...
by Roxi Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
It is often easier recognizing the physical needs of a child when it comes to the trying to provide adequately for nutritious food, water, warmth and so on. When it comes to the mental health of child, the parent may not have such as easy time at all. A child mental healthy may not be as obvious as...
Understanding Families
Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Today’s American families are more complex and diverse than ever before—and today’s child and family professionals must be fully prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the strong foundation they need...