Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Michael Tomasello
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that...
Parents as Therapeutic Partners
Are You Listening to Your Child's Play?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children. Teaching parents to be play therapists enhances the efforts of the mental health professional, who now becomes a consultant to the parent-therapist.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development. The authors-anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists, and psychologists-believe that a rebirth is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1995
Recently, studies on aging processes and age-related changes in behavior have been expanding considerably, probably due to the dramatic changes observed in the demographics. This increase in the overall age and proportion of elderly people has heightened the severity of problems associated with the...
Development in Context
Acting and Thinking in Specific Environments
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In this volume leading developmentalists address the question of how children's thinking develops in context by drawing on the theories of Vygotsky, Gibson, and Piaget.
Analyses of the ecology and the dynamics of behavior have become popular, emphasizing the particulars of people acting in...
Environmental Gerontology
Making Meaningful Places in Old Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"[This book] addresses issues on both sides of the Atlantic; examines the theoretical underpinnings of environmental gerontology...; and provides useful practical applications and guiding principles....Recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
The environments...
John Bowlby - From Psychoanalysis to Ethology
Unravelling the Roots of Attachment Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
This accessible book draws on unique evidence from oral histories and little-known archive material to shed new light on the working relationships which led to John Bowlby’s shift from psychoanalysis to ethology as a frame of reference – and ultimately to the development of attachment theory.
A...
Early Development and Leadership
Building the Next Generation of Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are asked what steps to take to improve competitiveness in a global economy or to make tough ethical choices, well-trained leaders are critical to organizational...
Human Bonding
The Science of Affectional Ties
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This tightly edited volume provides an integrative overview of human bonding from infancy through adulthood. Through an attachment lens, the book synthesizes classic and cutting-edge research on close relationships and their profound impact in everyday life. Topics include infant-caregiver attachment,...
What Mothers Never Tell Their Daughters
5 Keys to Building Trust, Restoring Connection, & Strengthening Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Wishing you had less tension in your relationship with your daughter?
Desiring a closer relationship with your daughter?
Longing for your mom to just “get” you?
In "What Mothers Never Tell Their Daughters", Dr. Michelle Deering supportively guides you through the...
The Meanings of Menopause
Historical, Medical, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this scholarly compilation of a major event in the life of every woman, editor Ruth Formanek has adopted an avowedly multidisciplinary mandate: to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life by gathering together a variety of discipline-specific meanings and research perspectives....
Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness
Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of August Flammer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this book, an international group of leading scientists present perspectives on the control of human behavior, awareness, consciousness, and the meaning and function of perceived control or self-efficacy in people's lives. The book breaks down the barriers between subdisciplines, and thus constitutes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being grew out of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 2003 on "Workforce/Workplace Mismatch: Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being" sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The text considers multiple dimensions of health and well-being...
by Hayne W. Reese, Robert V. Kail
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews,...