Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Progress toward a Literate World
Early Reading Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 155
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
In order to work toward eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals significantly include universal primary education, gender equality, and empowering women. Effective early literacy instruction plays a critical role in achieving these goals.
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The Science, and Art, of Program Dissemination: Strategies, Successes, and Challenges
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 149
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Gain a greater awareness of the processes involved in the dissemination of evidence-based interventions, as well as existing supports that help disseminate and sustain them.
Many interventions that aim to help children and adolescents are found to be efficacious every year, but program developers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first...
Handbook of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Translating Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This handbook examines the wide-ranging applications of positive psychology in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. It discusses the change in perceptions of disability and the shifting use of traditional deficit-based treatments. It presents evidence-based approaches and strategies...
Developmental Psychology
Revisiting the Classic Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
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*Revisiting the Classic Studies *is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about...
Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
Assessment, Differential Diagnosis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents demystifies the interviewing diagnostic process of psychosis in children and adolescents and provides a valuable resource for treatment. Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalized and disregarded as products of the child’s imagination....
School Psychology and Social Justice
Conceptual Foundations and Tools for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
School psychology practice does not exist in a vacuum and is not value-neutral. As the role and function of the school psychologist continues to evolve and expand, social justice provides a needed real-world framework for school psychology students, practitioners, supervisors, and professors to guide...
Perspectives on Creativity Development
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 151
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Creativity development is a nonlinear and multifaceted process starting early in life. This new thematic issue incorporates recent insights into the intersection of creativity research and developmental science. Specifically, it addresses the development of creativity with a focus on childhood and...
Psychology of Early Childhood
Up to the Sixth Year of Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1924, this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time. In this new edition the personal standpoint is emphasized, while at the same time other psychological theories...
Challenges to Implementing Effective Reading Intervention in Schools
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 154
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This special issue is a "how to" on overcoming the many systems-level challenges in K–12 public education to implement effective reading interventions for the vast numbers of students reading below grade level. It emphasizes building researcher–practitioner partnerships, providing ongoing professional...
by Daniel M. Ogilvie
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Fantasies of Flight invigorates the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits. Daniel Ogilvie exchanges a heart-to-heart, case study approach to understanding human behavior for the current strategies of categorizing...
by Peter Thompson, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
ìThis guide is direct and practical. You will find out exactly where you are weakest in knowledge so that your studying can be most directed. I exceeded the NASP passing score AND the national average on my first try at the praxis 400 exam-- using this book as my 'Bible' (and I am "only"...
Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds
A Methodological Primer, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book shows readers how to conduct observational methods, research tools used to describe and explain behaviors as they unfold in everyday settings. The book now uses both an evolutionary and a cultural perspective. The methods presented are drawn from psychology, education, family studies, sociology,...
Building Happiness, Resilience and Motivation in Adolescents
A Positive Psychology Curriculum for Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement. It helps people to be motivated, maintain positive mental health, and to flourish in all areas of their lives. This resource is a fully-formed positive...