Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books

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...

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good. There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they...

Human behavior is a subject so vast that it would seem to defy one's ability to comfortably and confidently grasp its varieties, nuances, shapes, and dynamics. But in this wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the contexts of human behavior, Dennis Saleebey examines the different social science...

This myth-busting book shows how "forgotten" middle children can-and do-rule the world. In this counterintuitive book, psychologist Catherine Salmon and journalist Katrin Schumann combine science, history, and real-life stories to reveal for the first time that our perception of middle children...

This volume provides a precise and comprehensive description of human motivation. Drawing on psychology, education and management, Ford integrates classic and contemporary motivation theory into a unified framework - Motivational Systems Theory - from which he derives 17 principles for motivating...

The area of work and family is a hot topic in the social sciences and appeals to scholars in a wide range of disciplines. There are few edited volumes in this area, however, and this may be the only one that focuses on low-income families--a particularly important group in this era of welfare-to-work...

This comprehensive yet brief overview of the adolescent human brain discusses how the brain develops during this critical period of life and how that development impacts decision-making and risk-taking behavior in the adolescent. This originated as a white paper requested by the Canadian government...

Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce examines the shifting economic, cultural, and technological trends in the modern workplace that are taking place as a result of the aging global workforce. Taking an international perspective, contributors address workforce aging issues around the world,...

Are you living life the way you really want to? Is there something you would like to change? Maybe you want to manage your emotions and relationships better, deal with conflict constructively, be more confident, less stressed, get fit, lose weight or achieve something else that is really important...

We communicate not only with words but with a variety of facial expressions and body movements which often contradict each other, similar to saying one thing and meaning another. Therefore it is important to learn how to communicate correctly as it will greatly increase the quality of life, both for yourself and the people that you meet in your life.

When this book was first published, David Olson was examining the developing representation and use of diagonals in the context of much larger questions, questions also explored by Vygotsky, Cassirer, Gombrich, and Bruner. These include such issues as conceptual development, conceptual change, and...

Baştan çıkarıcı Anıların dan insanlık tarihi kadar eski olan baştan çıkarma "uğraşı"nı yeniden gözden geçirmeye teşvik ediyor bizi. Bununla bağlantılı olarak da öpüşme, genç kızlık, nişanlılık, evlilik vs. gibi "bildik" konulara ironik yorumlar getiriyor....

Psychology - Self-Help - Over 60 Beautifully Full Colored Illustrations To Comfort The Mind Of The Relaxed - The Secrets To Finding Inner Happiness can be discovered through a few simple steps of Psycho-Cybernetics, Neuro Linguistic Programming, and visual photographic stimulation. This amazing e-book...