Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 32, 2012
Emerging Perspectives on Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"This collection is a timely and excellent contribution to the study of resilience and the field of gerontology."--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly
This state-of-the science, multidisciplinary Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics provides a comprehensive examination of critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
All psychological processes—like biological and social ones—are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This feature of reality is often not recognized in the social sciences where we operate with averaged data and with...
Debating Early Child Care
The Relationship between Developmental Science and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Throughout distressing cultural battles and disputes over child care, each side claims to have the best interests of children at heart. While developmental scientists have concrete evidence for this debate, their message is often lost or muddied by the media. To demonstrate why this problem matters,...
Nurturing Resilience
Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A practical, integrated approach for therapists working with people (both adults and children) who have been impacted by developmental trauma and attachment difficulties
Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell draw on fifty years of their combined clinical and teaching experience to provide this...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 35, 2015
Subjective Aging: New Developments and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
How do individuals perceive the experience of aging? Can this perception predict such developmental outcomes as functional health or mortality? The 35th volume of ARGG encompasses the most current and fruitful research findings about the subjective experience of aging and describes how they fit within...
Understanding Other Minds
Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, and to reflect on the contents of our own mindsa theory of mind (ToM). The four...
by Adriana Galván
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
As scientific inquiry and public interest in the adolescent brain grows, so too does the need for an accessible textbook that communicates the growing research on this topic. The Neuroscience of Adolescence is a comprehensive educational tool for developmental cognitive neuroscience students at all...
by Richard M. Lerner
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Concepts and Theories of Human Development is the most comprehensive and in-depth overview of the foundational theoretical contributions to understanding human development and the influence of these contributions for contemporary research and application in developmental science. Since its initial...
Developmental Psycholinguistics
Three Ways of Looking at a Child’s Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Explaining Conversations
A Developmental Social Exchange Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people’s social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete with examples of people’s verbal interactions in the form of chats, arguments, debates, and negotiations, both within a culture and across cultures....
by Colette Daiute
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Human Development and Political Violence presents an innovative approach to research and practice with young people growing up in the context of political violence. Based on developmental theory, this book explains and illustrates how children and youth interact with environments defined by war, armed...
Becoming A Family
Parents' Stories and Their Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The movement from young adulthood through coupling and the transition to parenthood may be among the most universal adult developmental transitions. These passages hold interest for all of us, but especially for those who study the psychological, familial, and sociocultural components of development,...
Life-Span Development and Behavior
Volume 12
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
The final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the life-span perspective: constancy and change in human development; opportunities for and constraints on plasticity in structure and function across life;...
Casualties Of Childhood
A Developmental Perspective On Sexual Abuse Using Projective Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Against the backdrop of powerful case vignettes and their accompanying House, Tree, Person and Kinetic Family Drawings, the discussion focuses primarily on the essential link between childhood sexual abuse and specific developmental problems. Given that sexual abuse is commonly directed toward latency-age...