Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Formative Experiences
The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The authors offer a unique exploration of the formative effects of children's early life experiences, with an emphasis on interactions among neurodevelopmental, behavioural and cultural dynamics. Multidisciplinary case studies focus on specific periods of development, or windows of susceptibility,...
by Douglas C. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Everyone has the inherent right to love and be loved, but not all are able to sip from desire's cup filled with contentment.
The writing identifies what is necessary to be able to love fully. An understanding of the nature of feelings also distinguishes love's essential character. Requirements...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Why a text on neuroscience and Christian formation? Simply put, we need one that represents the range of possible intersections for today and into the future. In recent years, neuroscience’s various fields of study have influenced our understanding of the person, memory, learning, development, communal...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
First published in 1986, this authoritative book contains a selection of original, research based, reports of studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand in the field of Child Development. The topics have been arranged into four major sections – cognitive issues in development, language and reading...
Treatment Of The Borderline Adolescent
A Developmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
When I organized a symposium on the development of nonverbal behavior for the 1980 meeting ofthe American Psychological Association, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches. Thinking about the many people who were doing important and interesting research in this area, it was hard to narrow down...
Biracial Families
Crossing Boundaries, Blending Cultures, and Challenging Racial Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This interdisciplinary volume surveys the diverse experiences of biracial families, both across and outside the black/white binary. The book examines the deep-rooted social contexts that inform the lifespan of interracial families, from dating and marriage through the stages of parenthood, as well...
Human Development from Middle Childhood to Middle Adulthood
Growing Up to be Middle-Aged
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This seminal work focuses on human development from middle childhood to middle adulthood, through analysis of the research findings of the groundbreaking Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS). The JYLS project, which began in 1968, has generated extensive publications...
Self-Esteem in Time and Place
How American Families Imagine, Enact, and Personalize a Cultural Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society. This is especially true in the arena of childrearing: images and references to self-esteem are ubiquitous in academic, educational, and popular media. Yet, until now, little has been known about what...
Emotion Regulation
A Matter of Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
One of the most important advances in the study of emotion regulation is understanding it as a dynamic process that develops across the life span. Emotion Regulation focuses on current conceptual and methodological issues in terms of change over various time scales: developmental change across years,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Self-concept and coping behaviour are important aspects of development in adolescence. Despite their developmental significance, however, the two areas have rarely been considered in relation to each other. This book is the first in which the two areas are brought together; it suggests that this interaction...
Zur Rollenübernahme von Kindern im Spiel
Welche Rollen werden von Kindern übernommen?
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Entwicklungspsychologie, Note: 1,2, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Psychologie), Veranstaltung: Behandlung von psych. Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter (VO), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Sozialisation des...
Positive Psychology, Second Edition
The Science of Happiness and Human Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of happiness and well-being, involving the scientific study of the role of personal strengths and positive social systems...
by Jeffrey Hecker, Geoffrey Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This introductory textbook gives students an appreciation of the field of clinical psychology as an applied science by teaching them the history and future of the field as well as ethical dilemmas facing psychologists today.
It is organized around four key themes:
• Science: the text...