Child Development category: 2058 books
Attachment Parenting
Developing Connections and Healing Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child. Grounded in attachment theory, Attachment Parenting gives...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People
An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.
This book provides a model of care for traumatized children and young people, based on theory and practice experience pioneered...
The Development of the Mediated Mind
Sociocultural Context and Cognitive Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
This volume is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory. The "mediated mind" is a term coined by Dr. Nelson and it refers to how cognitive development is mediated by the sociocultural context, including language and social interaction....
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...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
Human Development
An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Growth, Maturity and Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
A new edition of a classic text
This new edition of Human Development has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field. New material is introduced on the development of a sense of self, the social self and moral development.
Beginning with a discussion...
by Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes about...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Scientific research and science-guided practice based on the promotion of an individual's strengths constitutes a radical shift in a new and growing area of study within the field of human development. Its trademark term is `positive youth development'. This approach to human development is based...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book presents an integrated and coordinated framework for assessing developmental, psychological, and behavioral disorders in early childhood. Expert contributors advocate for natural-environment methods in addition to standardized measures in assessing academic and social skills as well as age-specific...
Vulnerable Children
Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans. In areas of the world torn by poverty, disease, and war, millions of children are invisible victims, deprived of home, family, and basic human rights. Their chances for a stable adult life are extremely slim.
The powerful interdisciplinary...
by Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Understanding Cognitive Development provides a fresh, evidence-based research perspective on the story of children’s cognitive development in the first ten years of human life.
Starting with a brief survey of the key theoretical positions that have come to define developmental psychology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book focuses on the structure and development of conscience, a subject that has been dominant in developmental psychology since the 18th century. International experts in the field contribute to this broad overview of the relevant research on the development of moral emotions and on the Kohlbergian-originated...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis is written by practicing child psychoanalysts with extensive experience treating children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and uneven development. The authors bridge the gap between a psychodynamic approach to ASD and burgeoning data...
Cognitive Learning and Memory in Children
Progress in Cognitive Development Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in developmental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like...