Child Development category: 2058 books
by Linda Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
It is increasingly understood that to counsel children and adolescents effectively requires specialized skills: simply adapting techniques developed for adults will not work.
Drawing on the work of Bowlby, Winnicott and others, Linda Hopper here gives a brief introduction to the emotional development...
The Music of Being
Music Therapy, Winnicott and the School of Object Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
This book explores how the work of key child development theorists informs music therapy practice with children and families.
Focusing primarily on the theoretical thinking and understanding of the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Alison Levinge highlights how his theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This handbook addresses a broad range of topics relating to children’s social behaviors and skills. It examines numerous disorders and problems that are directly affected by excesses and deficits of social skills. The book begins by providing an overview of the history and definition of social skills,...
Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)
The Child's Construction of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather...
Child Maltreatment in Residential Care
History, Research, and Current Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment. Up-to-date findings from a wide range of developing and developed countries identify forms of abuse and neglect associated...
Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition
An Eco-cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space ('put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left'), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates ('put the knife to the east, and the fork to the west'). How do children...
Discussions on Child Development
Volume three
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
by Kelly S. Mix, Janellen Huttenlocher, Susan Cohen Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
The aim of this book is to define and discuss the key issues raised by new findings in the study of quantitative development. One basic question addressed is how the abilities reported in infants and young children relate to later development. In some accounts, one is left with the impression that...
Discussions on Child Development
Volume one
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Thinking Developmentally from Constructivism to Neuroconstructivism
Selected Works of Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.
This influential volume of papers,...
The Psychology of Early Childhood
A Study of Mental Development in the First Years of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Originally published in 1942, this title attempted to trace, from their very earliest appearances after birth, all aspects of mental development in childhood up to the age of about 4 or 5. It is based largely on the author’s almost daily observations of his own five children, over a period of some...
Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment
A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Research and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict. It presents a robust framework, based in developmental psychopathology, for evaluating current research on this topic for strength of design, methodology, and documentation....
Preschool IQ
Prenatal and Early Developmental Correlates
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1975, this volume reports a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the precursors of intelligence, as measured by Stanford-Binet IQ scores, of 4-year-old children. Over 26, 000 children (more than 12, 000 whites and 14,000 blacks) were followed from the prenatal period, and...
Development of Perception in Infancy
The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through infant perception research, infant responses to experiences enable researchers to reveal perceptual competence, test hypotheses about processes, and infer neural mechanisms,...