Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Linda Silverman, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
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Is there really such a thing as giftedness? Are programs for gifted children elitist and undemocratic? Giftedness 101 addresses this extremely controversial topic with the intention of dispelling the many myths surrounding the concept of giftedness and providing a clear, cohesive conception...
by Daniel L. Segal, Sara Honn Qualls, Michael A. Smyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Fully updated and revised, this new edition of a highly successful text provides students, clinicians, and academics with a thorough introduction to aging and mental health.
The third edition of Aging and Mental Health is filled with new updates and features, including the impact of the DSM-5...
Born Anxious
The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity - and How to Break the Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a quick temper or to shake anxiety? The debate has always been divided between nature and nurture, but as psychology professor Daniel P. Keating demonstrates in Born Anxious, new DNA science points to a third factor that allows...
Handbook of Moral Behavior and Development
Volume 1: Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The publication of this unique three-volume set represents the culmination of years of work by a large number of scholars, researchers, and professionals in the field of moral development. The literature on moral behavior and development has grown to the point where it is no longer possible to capture...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination research fields such as social psychology,...
The Autobiography of Alexander Luria
A Dialogue with The Making of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Alexander Luria was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. His official autobiography was written as a citizen of the Soviet Union, and while it provides a compelling story of his lifelong devotion to developing a comprehensive theory of the biological and cultural foundations...
Self Directedness
Cause and Effects Throughout the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book, the third in a series on the life course, has significance in today's world of research, professional practice, and public policy because it symbolizes the gradual reemergence of power in the social sciences. Focusing on "self-directedness and efficacy" over the life course, this...
Handbook of Work-Family Integration
Research, Theory, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work full time while caring for and raising their children and managing household upkeep, trying to keep a precarious balance of fulfilling multiple roles as parent, worker, friend, & child. Increasingly demands of the workplace such...
Handbook of Jealousy
Theory, Research, and Multidisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Through a compilation of original articles, the Handbook of Jealousy offers an integrated portrait of the emerging areas of research into the nature of jealousy and a forum for discussing the implications of the findings for theories of emotional and socio-cognitive development.
Presents the...
Beyond the Systems Paradigm
Emerging Constructs in Family and Personality Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This monograph owes its origins to the decades-old proposal by David Bakan (1968) about the duality of human experience. He proposed that community and agency would be two necessary and sufficient constructs to classify and to encompass most human relationships. This dichotomy has been...
by Uta Frith
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? Everyone has heard of autism, but the disorder itself is little understood. It has captured the public...
The Psychology of Ageing
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an important new chapter on death, dying and bereavement has been added.
Providing a comprehensive overview...
by Ardhendu Sekhar, Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
You see the book. You may have missed it! Whereas, if you browse it, you will get surprised and buy it!If you are groping in the dark with your day-to-day psychological problems; this book will ‘illuminate’ you.If you have all the thoughts and ideas in you that are dormant; it will bring all of them...
Nerds
How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
A lively, thought-provoking book that zeros in on the timely issue of how anti-intellectualism is bad for our children and even worse for America.
Why are our children so terrified to be called "nerds"? And what is the cost of this rising tide of anti-intellectualism to both our children and...