Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Emotional Development and Families
Socialization across the lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This lively and engaging book conducts a thorough review of the current research literature in developmental psychology and socialisation, and then clearly links theory to practical applications in both clinical and everyday situations. Life’s first important lessons on how to handle emotions often...
Child and Adolescent Disorders
Developmental and Health Psychology Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book offers empirically based approaches to assessment, treatment, and prevention of certain childhood disorders encountered by psychologists and other practitioners in child clinical and pediatric psychology settings. In so doing, it views disorders from a developmental and health psychology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Morality has once again become an important focus of research in different scientific disciplines, from biology, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, to social psychology, economics, and political philosophy. One of the reasons for this renewed interest stems from the tragedies that human beings,...
Children's Understanding of Death
From Biological to Religious Conceptions
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
In order to understand how adults deal with children's questions about death, we must examine how children understand death, as well as the broader society's conceptions of death, the tensions between biological and supernatural views of death and theories on how children should be taught about death....
The Psychology of Grandparenthood
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The majority of people will now spend about one-third of their lives as grandparents, yet developmental psychologists have largely ignored the nature of the grandparental role, and the influence which grandparents can have on grandchildren. Originally published in 1991, this book redresses the balance...
Particulars and Universals in Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Critical Reflections A book honoring Roger Bibace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
What sparks a psychologist’s interest in a certain phenomenon? Is it a symptom, a syndrome, a treatment, the usual, the exceptional, the group, the individual? An epistemologist, for example, focuses on the group and delivers group results. The clinician has to focus on the patient, although the...
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 36
The Origins and Organization of Adaptation and Maladaptation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The Origins and Organization of Adaptation and Maladaptation provides scholars, students, and practitioners with access to the newest work of top tier scientists in psychology. This volume addresses issues relevant to the impact of attachment on romantic relationships in later adulthood. In addition,...
Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self
Developmental and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation. Scholars from multiple disciplines, including cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have begun theorizing and...
Moral Development and Reality
Beyond the Theories of Kohlberg, Hoffman, and Haidt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Moral Development and Reality explores the nature of moral development, human behavior, and social interconnections. The exploration elucidates the full range of moral development, from superficial perception to a deeper understanding and feeling through social perspective-taking. By comparing, contrasting,...
Developmental Psychology
How Nature and Nurture Interact
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This volume examines the psychological, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the most basic moral commitments. It begins by looking at the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality have transformed the research...
Advances in Developmental Psychology
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Seeing Babies in a New Light
The Life of Hanus Papousek
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek presents the first in-depth examination of the scientific contributions and life of Hanus Papousek (1922-2000), a leading figure in modern infancy research. The aim is to illuminate the research and ideas of this pediatrician and scholar who...
Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development
New Directions and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together heretofore disparate literatures on self- and emotional regulation, brain and physiological...