Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Your Two-Year-Old
Terrible or Tender
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Are two-year-olds really so terrible, or does the world have a slightly skewed view of this sometimes difficult, sometimes adorable lot? Drs. Ames and Ilg, recognized worldwide as authorities on child behavior and development, offer parents practical advice and enlightening psychological insights...
Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies
The State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies brings together recent critical investigations which examine historical and textual inaccuracies associated with received understandings of Vygotsky’s work. By deconstructing the Vygotskian narrative, the authors debunk the 'cult of Vygotsky', allowing...
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...
Experience and Development
A Festschrift in Honor of Sandra Wood Scarr
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
The scope of these chapters reflects the strong influence that Sandra Wood Scarr’s scholarship—her empirical research and theoretical contributions—has had on what we know about experience and development via the lens of the psychological sciences, especially the fields of developmental psychology, behavior genetics, early education and child care.
Theraplay
Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this treatment method in its traditional format of individual child and parent sessions. Its simple, action-oriented,...
Returning Home
Reconnecting with Our Childhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past. Rather, those returning to their homes have a strong desire to...
Young Children's Cognitive Development
Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning, Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Theory of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A critical part of early childhood development is the development of "theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental psychology that are...
Social and Personality Development
An Advanced Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This new text contains parts of Bornstein and Lamb’s Developmental Science, 6th edition, along with new introductory material, providing a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of social and personality development. Each of the world-renowned contributors masterfully introduces the history and...
by Janette B. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Volume 42 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 9 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Loneliness in Childhood, The Legacy of Early Interpersonal Experience, The Relation Between...
The Science inside the Child
The story of what happens when we're growing up
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children’s individual development within the development of our species, at genes, at the hormone systems that flood our bodies, at the neuroscience...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This volume focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research. The book examines how cultural diversity, including differences in parenting (e.g., race, education, family history) and diverse school variables (e.g., location, population, organization,) can affect family-school...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues. Each chapter integrates prevailing approaches into a research-based framework for supporting learning from pre-K through...
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...
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...