Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Sonya L. Britt, Roudi Nazarinia Roy, Walter R. Schumm
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Transition to Parenthood moves beyond a one-study focus and captures multidisciplinary work on all families making the transition to parenthood. The book covers societal trends, changes, and most importantly expectations. Focus is also placed on how families are impacted by their surroundings and...
Building Resistance to Stress and Aging
The Toughness Model
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ranging from confronting mental and physical challenges to meditation - sustain our brains and bodies, and ultimately build our mental and psychological capacities degenerated by stress and by aging.
Autism and the Family in Urban India
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The book explores the lived reality of parenting and caring for children with autism in contemporary urban India. It is based on a qualitative, ethnographic study of families of children with autism as they negotiate the tricky terrain of identifying their child s disability, obtaining a diagnosis,...
Family Resilience and Chronic Illness
Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume offers theoretical, empirical, and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic health issues. Featuring topics that run the lifespan from infancy to late adulthood, its coverage reflects both the diversity of family challenges in long-term illness...
The Forgotten Kin
Aunts and Uncles
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Although much is written about contemporary families, the focus is typically limited to marriage and parenting. In this path-breaking assessment of families sociologist Robert M. Milardo demonstrates how aunts and uncles contribute to the daily lives of parents and their children. Aunts and uncles...
Social Networks and the Life Course
Integrating the Development of Human Lives and Social Relational Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. It focuses on the integration of two subfields of sociology/social science--the life course and social networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure...
Asian American Parenting
Family Process and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families. Delving beneath longstanding generalizations and assumptions that have often hampered intervention with this diverse and growing population, expert...
Why Children Follow Rules
Legal Socialization and the Development of Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such values and attitudes, in particular legitimacy, underlie the ability and willingness to consent to laws and defer to legal authorities that make legitimacy...
Neuroparenting
The Expert Invasion of Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book traces the growing influence of ‘neuroparenting’ in British policy and politics. Neuroparenting advocates claim that all parents require training, especially in how their baby’s brain develops. Taking issue with the claims that ‘the first years last forever’ and that infancy is...
Moral Maturity
Measuring the Development of Sociomoral Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The traditional production measure of moral judgment has been the Moral Judgment Interview (MJI), which uses hypothetical moral dilemmas to elicit moral judgment. However, the MJI dilemmas have been criticized as artificial and may not be entirely appropriate for children, certain cultures, and practical...
Narrative Development in Adolescence
Creating the Storied Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Monisha Pasupathi and Kate C. McLean Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? Narrative Identity in Adolescence How can we help youth move from childhood to adulthood in the most effective and positive way possible? This is a question that parents, educators, researchers, and policy makers engage...
Growing Up Mindful
Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The American Psychological Association’s 2014 survey on stress made an alarming discovery: America’s teens are now the most stressed-out age group in the country. Growing Up Mindful shows parents and professionals alike how to model and teach the skills of mindfulness that will empower our youth...
A Well-Lived Life
Essays in Gestalt Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Sylvia Crocker's A Well-Lived Life is a work of a daring and creative thinker, offering a bold reconceptualization of Gestalt therapy that extends all the way from its philosophical foundation to the nuances of its clinical application. In prose that is clear as a bell, Crocker fully exposes the depth...
The Total Transference and the Complete Counter-Transference
The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with More Disturbed Patients
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
The book takes the reader “into the trenches” with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions. The reader becomes familiar with the clinical and theoretical difficulties psychoanalysts encounter in their day to day practice...