Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
So Odd a Mixture
Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice'
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing.
So Odd a...
Bilingual
Life and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures,...
I Tipi psicologici: istruzioni per l'uso
L’arte di capire gli altri e sviluppare le tue potenzialità per migliorare la tua vita
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Uno dei pochi libri in lingua italiana sul sistema di lettura di personalità, considerato il must negli Stati Uniti.
Il genio di Carl Gustav Jung unito al pragmatismo di Isabel Myers e Katharine Cook Briggs, ha dato vita al sistema più facile ed efficiente da utilizzare, per riconoscere rapidamente...
by david wolgroch
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
1969 a Jewish honor student in the Bronx is a school newspaper editor the son of Holocaust survivors and the newest member of a Puerto Rican extortion gang. A strong inciting sequence puts a sixteen-year-old boy in a dilemma of possible violence. After angering the gang's leader Dave at a neighborhood...
"If You Turned into a Monster"
Transformation through Play: A Body-Centred Approach to Play Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Draw me a picture of what you would look like if you turned into a monster.' Dennis McCarthy's work with distressed or traumatized children begins with an exercise that is simple but very effective: he invites the child to communicate with him in their own way, through the non-verbal language of play....
New Developments in Autism
The Future is Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) by well-known experts in the field, stressing the importance of early diagnosis and a good working relationship between parents and professionals. The contributors cover a wide...
by Ginette Legendre
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 1, 2014
by Nicoletta Niccolai
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Pazienti ammalati, traumatizzati, con problemi psicologici, vittime di incidenti casuali o dovuti all’egoismo ed alla malvagità umana, colti nel momento cruciale del loro dolore, sulla strada o nell’intimità delle proprie case. E’ questo il mondo che Luciana ed i suoi compagni d’ambulanza...
The Witness
Unfolding the Anatomy of a Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A professional behavioral witness to more than a hundred capital trials explores the making of a murderer.
CSI shows us where a crime is committed. Forensic detectives show us how. But what really goes on in the mind of killer? What is it in each potential victim that sparks in them the urge...
Journeys Through ADDulthood
Discover a New Sense of Identity and Meaning with Attention Deficit Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Sari Solden specializes in working with ADD adults and their partners. Her first book, Women with Attention Deficit Disorder, has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide. Now, in Journeys Through ADDulthood, she takes a groundbreaking look at the emotional turmoil often precipitated by ADD and offers...
Temperament
Theory And Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development*, Second Edition* presents an authoritative and up-to-date overview of research and theory concerning a child's social development from pre-school age to the onset of adolescence.
Presents the most up-to-date research and theories on...
Parenting
An Ecological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children? What factors contribute to individual differences in parenting behavior? The framework used for addressing these questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The results shed new light on childhood development and question conventional wisdom by showing that beyond providing the...