Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
The Playful Brain
Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
For centuries the phenomenon of play has perplexed scientists across the board. Studies by biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, and educators have excited keen debate and contention, producing diverse opinions that pose play as both a childish waste of time and a necessary tool...
Triumph Over Darkness
Understanding and Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This collection of prose and therapeutic insights creates a powerful commentary on incest, rape, abuse, and the recovery process.
Women and men share their personal experiences of childhood abuse and walk with the reader along the path toward wellness. They reflect each stage of healing with a clarity...
Positive changes to become a positive person
How to shift to positive thinking, skyrocket your self-esteem & meet your full potential for happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
A book for those people unwilling to give up on themselves.
Life is not rosy.
And we are all too often caught up in despair, losing sleep over past trauma, loss, betrayal and all sorts of mishaps that drain the energy out of us.
Countless self-improvement books have been written....
by W. Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the timing of parenthood? In a clear and accessible style, this book examines the advantages and disadvantages of early, on-time, and delayed first fatherhood. The book includes a foreword by Ross D. Parke.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
While both positive and negative peer interactions have long been a focus of scientific interest, much less attention has been given to children who tend to refrain from interacting with peers. This volume brings together leading authorities to review progress in understanding the development, causes,...
Extrapolations
Demonstrations Of Ericksonian Therapy : Ericksonian Monographs 6
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
After-School Centers and Youth Development
Case Studies of Success and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines after-school programs in light of their explosive growth in recent years. In the rush to mount programs, there is a danger of promoting weak ones of little value and failing to implement strong ones adequately. But what is quality and how can it be achieved? This book presents findings...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
When asking how cognition comes to take its mature form, learning seems to be an obvious factor to consider. However, until quite recently, there has been very little contact between investigations of how infants learn and what infants know. For example, on the one hand, research efforts focused on...
Hamlet's Problematic Revenge
Forging a Royal Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Hamlet's Problematic Revenge: Forging a Royal Mandate provides a new argument within Shakespearean studies that argues the oft-noted arrest of the play’s dramaturgical momentum, especially evident in Hamlet’s much delayed enactment of his revenge, represents in fact a succinct emblem of the “arrested...
Children and Social Exclusion
Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity explores the origins of prejudice and the emergence of morality to explain why children include some and exclude others.
Formulates an original theory about children’s experiences with exclusion and how they understand the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development. The contributors represent an array of different disciplines, and approach the issues from a variety of perspectives. Accordingly,...
Handbook of the Life Course
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next steps” in life course studies....
Social Structures and Aging Individuals
Continuing Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
[A] useful reference book. Readers will find themselves returning to chaptersagain and again..."
--PsycCritiques
This is the 20th and final volume in the "Societal Impact on Aging" series. It focuses on what has been learned over the span of the previous volumes regarding...
Stepfamily Relationships
Development, Dynamics, and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This second edition synthesizes the emerging knowledge base on the diversity of stepfamilies, their inherent concerns, and why so relatively little is still known about them. Its extensive findings shed needed light on family arrangements relatively new to the literature (e.g., cohabitating stepparents),...