Child Development category: 2058 books
Biology and Knowledge Revisited
From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.
Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning...
The Biologising of Childhood
Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations.
First Charles Darwin’s own writings on child development are examined. It is shown that Darwin endorsed...
Lifespan Development in Context
A Topical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Award-winning author Tara L. Kuther presents Lifespan Development in Context, a topically organized version of her bestselling Lifespan Development text that provides a panoramic view of the many influences that shape human development. Kuther’s student-friendly narrative guides the reader through...
by Cheryl Arnold, Ralph Fisch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood. Part One brings together trauma theory with a number of theories of human development. It directly addresses and describes...
The Developing Individual in a Changing World
Volume 1, Historical and Cultural Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 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...
Character Building
Psychological View
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The need to educate for character is viewed as critically important by many societies, ranking ahead of academic achievement. Accordingly, many schools have included moral education in school curricula. Conversely, the society is complaining that immoral acts have increased in the society.
Many...
Trafficked Young People
Breaking the Wall of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call for...
ParentShift
Ten Universal Truths That Will Change the Way You Raise Your Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
“An encyclopedic exploration of the most effective methods for giving children the courage to realize their full potential.” — ADELE FABER, author of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Perfect for modern parents, grandparents, preschool teachers and caregivers, ParentShift...
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse
Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle has one simple purpose_to describe the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur in every subsequent developmental phase throughout life as the result of chronic child sexual abuse. Through the...
by Luther Allan Weigle
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
A recent conference of educators was discussing the problem of vocational guidance, and canvassing the various ways in which schools and colleges may help young people to decide wisely the all-important question of their occupation in life. One speaker gave pungent expression to a conviction which...
by Sean Grover
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity? Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority? How did we get here? What went wrong? While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions...
International Handbook of Psychological Well-Being in Children and Adolescents
Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This handbook addresses universal developmental and cultural factors contributing to child and adolescent mental health and well-being across the globe. It examines sociocultural contexts of development and identifies children's and adolescents' perspectives as critical to understanding and promoting...
by Dr. Neil J. Salkind
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2004
An Introduction to Theories of Human Development provides a comprehensive view of the primary theoretical models of human development including those from the biological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive developmental perspectives. Along with a brief discussion of a historical background...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in young people has long been a tough call for clinicians, either for fear of stigmatizing the child or confusing the normal mood shifts of adolescence with pathology. Now, a recent upsurge in relevant research into early-onset BPD is inspiring the...