Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Douglas H. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Habits such as regular exercise are well known to be linked to better health in older adults. Far less is understood about behaviors that contribute to the optimally aging mind. This may be a reason why only about 25% of elders meet the standards for optimal cognitive aging. The Aging Intellect describes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology
Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings. It addresses the role of normative age-related sensory, cognitive, and functional changes, as well as the influence of generational...
Stuttering Recovery
Personal and Empirical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Stuttering Recovery: Personal and Empirical Perspectives is a highly original and engaging book serving to not only educate readers on topics related to stuttering, but also to stimulate discussion. The author interweaves personal accounts of people who stutter with informational chapters highlighting...
Conversations with Anorexics
Compassionate and Hopeful Journey through the Therapeutic Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
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This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work,...
by John Owens
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2007
Observe someone for 5 minutes and "figure them out" -- Know what a person is thinking and feeling just by analyzing them! This book will show you how to do it in five different ways!!
Understanding and Overcoming Misophonia
A Conditioned Aversive Reflex Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Does the sound of other people chewing fill you with rage? Do certain sights and sounds make you crazy when they don’t bother anyone else? If so, you are not alone. Although rarely known, misophonia is quite common, and there is hope.
Are you tired of misophonia ruining your life? Are...
Handbook of Family Theories
A Content-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today’s family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research....
Social Structure and Aging
Psychological Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume presents a systematic examination of the impact of social structures on individual behaviors and on their development in adulthood and old age. These papers and responses attempt to improve the reciprocal relationship between changes in social macro- and micro-structures and the process...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Comprised of papers written by members of the Social Science Research Council Subcommittee on Child Development in Life-Span Perspective, this book provides a representation of the current status of the relation between child development and the life- span. It suggests the possible synthesis of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This volume presents fascinating new theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on the life-span development of talent. It shows how talents are the result of the acquisition of a sequence of skills and how the acquisition of these skills is facilitated by changes in the individual's environment....
Returning Home
Reconnecting with Our Childhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past. Rather, those returning to their homes have a strong desire to...
Second Language Acquisition in Childhood
Volume 2: School-age Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Acting Out
Understanding and Reducing Aggressive Behaviour in Children and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Are you one of the thousands of Canadians who work or volunteer with children and youth? Do you know:
• how to respond effectively when a young person behaves aggressively?
• what kinds of aggression are considered normal for a young person’s age and stage of development?
• what kinds...