Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Growing Points in Developmental Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Growing Points in Developmental Science is an ISSBD publication based on the millennium symposia papers published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development in 2000. This collection of overview chapters summarises the state of the art and the way forward for this discipline.
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Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 37
Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The collected papers from the most prestigious symposia in the field of child development provide scholars, students, and practitioners with access to the work of key researchers in human development. This volume focuses on changes in our understanding of cogisnitive control processes—constructs...
Children's Saving
A Study in the Development of Economic Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1993, this book presents an alternative approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during childhood: a new developmental economic psychology!
In the past, attempts to study the emergence of children’s economic consciousness have failed to take account...
Youth Violence
Sources and Solutions in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
A valuable source of information for psychologists, this book thoroughly and carefully reviews the evidence for risk of, and protective factors that influence, the likelihood of young people acting aggressively. It looks at the problem from a multitude of perspectives, including developmental psychology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
After decades of neglect, researchers have begun to focus attention on the development and outcomes of girlhood aggression. This comprehensive volume provides an account of some of the pioneering research in the field. Its central aims are to highlight current understanding, identify key components...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Originally published in 1992, this title came out of a conference on emotion and cognition as antecedents and consequences of health and disease processes in children and adolescents. The theoretical rationale for the conference was based on the assumption that the development of emotion, cognition,...
The Story of Sexual Identity
Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
This book assembles a diverse group of scholars working within a new, pathbreaking paradigm of sexual science, fusing perspectives from history, sociology, and psychology. The contributors are united in their commitment to the idea of "narrative" as central to the study of sexual identity, offering...
'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion
Constructing a Threat of Degeneration
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012!
Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!
Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and...
by Gessica De Cesare
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2012
L’idea di questo lavoro nasce dall’esperienza di supporto psicologico dato ai genitori di bambini ricoverati nel reparto di Pediatria Oncologica del Policlinico universitario “Umberto I” di Roma. Dal momento che non è previsto un servizio di supporto psicologico, ed avendone invece constatato...
by Gessica De Cesare, Ilena Aprea
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Vari studi hanno evidenziato alcuni fattori che sembrano essere alla base del comportamento aggressivo. Sicuramente un ruolo determinante può essere attribuito al temperamento del bambino.
Un atteggiamento negativo di fondo, caratterizzato da mancanza di calore e coinvolgimento, da parte delle persone...
by Bridget Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Brain and Educational Connections is based on current studies from neuroscientists and research in the field of psychology and education. This book also presents sound educational theories and practices as they relate to important research findings. This book is written for teachers, administrators,...
by Jodie M. Plumert
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Studying the Perception-Action System as a Model System for Understanding Development, Volume 55, the latest release in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the field of development of the perception-action system,...
Getting to 30
A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s and the issues that...
Grow the Tree You Got
& 99 Other Ideas for Raising Amazing Adolescents and Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
A wise and inspiring guide to parenting through the extraordinary- and at times tumultuous-journey that is the adolescent and teenage years.
When Tom Sturges became a father, he decided that he wanted to be one of the greatest father that ever walked the earth. But things became a bit more...