Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books

Bij goed voor jezelf zorgen denken we vaak aan veel bewegen en gezond eten, maar je zit pas écht lekker in je vel als je ook mentaal sterk bent. Daarom komt Wouter de Jong nu, na de bestseller ‘Mindgym: Sportschool voor je geest’ met ‘Mindgym Work-outs’. Te gebruiken als aanvulling op het...

An innovative and enlightening fresh look at human lifespan development focusing holistically on the human being as encompassing body- mind- spirit. This is a journey through the human lifespan bringing together the threads of our physical, cognitive, psychological and spiritual development in succinct...

**Discover the beloved self-help classic featuring moving poems and insightful truisms that “is full of practical wisdom that will allow you to embrace and change your life” (**John Gray, Ph.D., author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus). Individuals, therapy groups, twelve-step...

" This unique volume, with its person- and context-centered focus, is the only book to emphasize the need to incorporate social, cultural, and demographics into transitional care protocol for elderly patients. It encompasses the larger context of life experience in order to provide optimal...

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging. As...

Music therapy is an internationally recognised field of professional evidence-based practice. Qualified music therapists use the engaging, non-verbal aspects of music to create relationships in which therapeutic goals can be pursued and needs of clients addressed. This is the first book to focus specifically...

Sleep as a factor in physical economics ranks in importance with respiration and digestion. Those who live normally, who throughout all ordinary exigencies maintain a natural attitude toward life, its strains and responsibilities, may expect to enjoy a full measure of this restorative function ...

Hai mai avuto la sensazione che un libro arrivi quando ne hai bisogno, come se ti cercasse? Ti sei mai chiesto perché un grande cambiamento può nascere da una piccola frase? Matematici e fisici lo hanno spiegato agli psicologi e agli psicoterapeuti parlando dell’effetto farfalla, o effetto Lorenz,...

Il fascino dell’aforisma è insito nella sua etimologia. Aforisma deriva dal greco aphorismós e vuol dire “definire l’orizzonte”, da apó (delimitare, confinare) e da horízein (orizzonte). “Definire l’orizzonte” è, già in sé, un’espressione meravigliosa e ricca di significati. L’aforisma...

Decline in our physical and mental abilities may be due to injury, illness, or chronic pain, or may simply be the results of normal aging. Sometimes changes in ability are gradual enough and minor enough that we adapt to them effortlessly. In other circumstances, however, these ability changes are...

This book is dedicated to everybody who wants to live the Ultimate Life. It tells about some psychological aspects and what is important.  

A mother-daughter writing team reports on what's really up with kids today Science writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, journalist Samantha Henig, offer a smart, comprehensive look at what it's really like to be twentysomething—and to what extent it’s different for Millennials than...

Technological advances and changes in society have led to the growth of individuality and the impoverishment of conventional love - which nonetheless prevails in the collective imagination as an ideal. This slow transformation, according to Flávio Gikovate, is excellent news. He believes that adults...

Steven Mintz reconstructs the emotional interior of a life stage too often relegated to self-help books and domestic melodramas. He describes the challenges of adulthood today and puts them into perspective by exploring how past generations achieved intimacy and connection, raised children, sought meaning in work, and responded to loss.