Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Barbara M. Newman, Philip R. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Key human development theories that continue to guide research and practice are examined in this engaging text. Ten key theories are grouped into three families - those that emphasize biological systems, environmental factors, and those that reflect an interaction between the two. This organization...
Identity Flexibility During Adulthood
Perspectives in Adult Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This volume seeks to explore the idea of identity as a flexible center of events around which aspects of the self and events in the outside world are organized. Historically, in much of the literature, identity was conceptualized as a somewhat fixed, unchanging construct. Scholars now have a greater...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Future-Minded
The Psychology of Agency and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
What drives us to make decisions?
Future-Minded explores the psychological processes of agency and control. If you've ever wondered why we think of coincidences as matters of fate rather than the result of the laws of probability, this book provides the answer. From memory and reasoning to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reading Our Lives
The Poetics of Growing Old
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at...
The Psychology of Effective Management
Strategies for Relationship Building
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The Psychology of Effective Management combines basic psychological principles with practical recommendations for building positive and productive manager-employee relations. Each recommendation is based on real-life situations taken from respected scholars in the field, as well as the author’s...
Psychology for Social Work
A Comprehensive Guide to Human Growth and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This exciting core text book is an engaging and accessible introduction to understanding human behaviour and development from a psychological perspective. Written by a psychologist with extensive teaching experience, it offers a clear and systematic exploration of psychological concepts and research,...
Judgments over Time
The Interplay of Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Time pervades every aspect of people's lives. We are all affected by remnants of our pasts, assessments of our presents, and forecasts of our futures. Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors over time inexorably intertwine and intermingle, determining varied reactions such as affect and emotions, as...
by Sara Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues. On the one hand there are theories which argue that the impetus of development...
by Freud Sigmund
Language: French
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), père de la psychanalyse, est né le 6 mai 1856 à Freiberg en Moravie. Après avoir fait des études de médecine à l'Université de Vienne, Freud accomplit un stage à Paris, dans le service Dr. Charcot, spécialiste...
Buddhist Understanding of Childhood Spirituality
The Buddha’s Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
In this book, Alexander von Gontard, a child psychiatrist, uses the language, thought and imagery of Buddhism to explore the spirituality of children.
The book begins by exploring the Buddha's own childhood and the 'divine child' in Buddhism, a key archetype in Jungian psychology. The author...
Sensation
The New Science of Physical Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Like the revolutionary bestsellers Predictably Irrational and Emotional Intelligence, Sensation is an exciting, completely new view of human behavior—a new psychology of physical intelligence (or embodied cognition)—that explains how the body unconsciously affects our everyday decisions and choices,...
Political Straight Talk
A Prescription for Healing Our Broken System of Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis. What they wrote was the political map that future representatives would need to follow to conduct the people's business in an efficient and effective...