Child Development category: 2058 books
Aging, Representation, and Thought
Gestalt and Feature-Intensive Processing
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The brain contains many distinct functional and anatomical regions. Despite these differences, brain tissues are sufficiently uniform in the fact that they can engage in various types of processing. How can functionally different kinds of processes, such as verbal memory and reasoning, visual and...
Conceptual Structure in Childhood and Adolescence
The Case of Everyday Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
‘Heat breaks up charcoal and puts sulphur dioxide in’; ‘The air pulls faster on heavy masses.’ These and other similar statements by school-aged children untutored in physics carry two messages. First, children’s pre-instructional conceptions of the physical world are a far cry from the...
Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior
A Therapist's Guide to Assessment and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior, second edition is a skills-based book for mental health professionals working with children experiencing disorders of self-regulation. These children are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty...
School Spaces for Student Wellbeing and Learning
Insights from Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book introduces a new wellbeing dimension to the theory and practice of learning space design for early childhood and school contexts. It highlights vital, yet generally overlooked relationships between the learning environment and student learning and wellbeing, and reveals the potential of...
Sexually Harmful Youth
Successful Reintegration to School
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This Brief focuses on youth who engage in sexually harmful behavior and how they transition back into public schools after serving time in a juvenile detention center or treatment facility. The Brief examines the difference between normal sexual behaviors and sexually harmful behaviors and provides...
Understanding Child Neglect
Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This concise book reviews the various types of neglect in childhood, providing an operational definition that incorporates existing viewpoints. It describes risk factors for neglect to increase awareness for improved identification, prevention, and treatment of this pervasive problem. This is...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Using psychological theory as a basis, Socializing Children through Language examines naturally occurring conversations between mothers and children in the context of achievement, self-regulation, food consumption, and television watching to illustrate how families of different socioeconomic means...
Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 1
Organization of Length and Class Concepts: Empirical Consequences of a Piagetian Formalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Originally published in 1974, a wide and interesting set of intellectual abilities in children are examined here. Volume 1 of 4 (Organization of Length and Class Concepts: Empirical Consequences of a Piagetian Formalism) converts an axiomatization of classes and asymmetrical relationships (proper...
Cognitive and Affective Growth (PLE: Emotion)
Developmental Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Originally published in 1981, this title is a collection of chapters based on papers presented at a conference called to explore what the editors called a developmental–interaction point of view – an approach to developmental psychology and education that stresses these interactive and reciprocal...
Collaborative Intervention in Early Childhood
Consulting with Parents and Teachers of 3- to 7-Year-Olds
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
When young children are showing signs of difficulty, parents, childcare providers, and teachers often approach practitioners for guidance on how to best support healthy development. Whether providing consultation in early education programs and elementary schools, or assisting children and families...
Neighborhood Disorganization and Social Control
Case Studies from Three Russian Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This Brief presents a framework for understanding the role of school and neighborhood contexts in the development of self-control. Through the application of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime and Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory, the authors of this Brief examine...
Revealing the Inner Worlds of Young Children
The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and Parent-Child Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
This book reports the work of a 20-year collaboration between a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and developmental scientists who have created and investigated a new tool to elicit and analyze children's narratives. This tool is the MacArthur Story Stem Battery, a systematic collection of story...
Children's Anxiety
A Contextual Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Children’s Anxiety: A Contextual Approach provides an introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. The book provides an up-to-date account of research on the developmental, familial and social context of child...
by Jeffrey A. Daniels, Mary C. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Bullying. Gang assaults. Rampage shootings. School violence, especially when it turns deadly, has enduring social and psychological effects on students, faculty, staff, and the community. And though a great deal of research focuses on the significant role children’s positive social development plays...