Psychology / Developmental

Failure to Launch: Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult

by Michael DeVine & Lawrence V. Tucker

Failure to Launch sets out to identify the underlying reasons for the failure to launch epidemic with adult children. Morever, it also lays out a treatment plan to help launch these children out of their parents'...

Feeding the Under 5s

by Allan Dyson & Lucy Meredith

One young child in every four is overweight and one in ten is obese, some of the reasons for this are:

• a general lack of interest and understanding of food and cooking
• junk food being consumed every day 
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Life Values and Adolescent Mental Health

by Patricia Cohen & Jacob Cohen

Arising from the Cohens' work on the epidemiology of childhood psychopathology, this book explores the two aspects of motivational structure--ideas and values--that underlie the development of maladaptive functioning...

Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization

by Brian D. Cox & Cynthia Lightfoot

The issue of how the external world becomes part of the behavioral repertoire of children has been important to psychology from its very beginning, preoccupying theorists from Sigmund Freud to George Herbert...

The Development of Intersensory Perception: Comparative Perspectives

by David J. Lewkowicz & Robert Lickliter

This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from researchers studying the general problem...

The Self-system: Developmental Changes Between and Within Self-concepts

by Annerieke Oosterwegel & Louis Oppenheimer

This book presents a longitudinal study dealing with developmental changes within and between self-concepts and their relation to personal functioning. Within the psychological literature -- and the developmental...

Early Child Development in the French Tradition: Contributions From Current Research

by Andre Vyt, Henriette Bloch & Marc H. Bornstein

This volume shares significant contemporary "Francophone" contributions to developmental psychology outside geographic and intellectual borders of French-speaking countries. Except for the spread of Piagetian...

Development in the Workplace

by Jack Demick & Patrice M. Miller

Originally presented at the Sixth Adult Development Symposium, the papers in this volume examine possible relationships between the fields of organizational and (adult) developmental psychology with particular...

Mechanisms of Age-cognition Relations in Adulthood

by Timothy A. Salthouse

This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number...

Children's Sibling Relationships: Developmental and Clinical Issues

by Frits Boer, Judy Dunn & Judith F. Dunn

In the last decade, the significance of siblings in children's development and adjustment has been widely recognized, and research on brothers and sisters has increased dramatically. Bringing together exciting...

Studies on the History of Behavior: Ape, Primitive, and Child

by L.S. Vygotsky, A.R. Luria & Jane E. Knox

The surge of contemporary interest in Vygotsky's contribution to child psychology has focused largely on his developmental method and his claim that higher psychological functions in the individual emerge out...

Self Directedness: Cause and Effects Throughout the Life Course

by Judith Rodin, Carmi Schooler & K. Warner Schaie

This book, the third in a series on the life course, has significance in today's world of research, professional practice, and public policy because it symbolizes the gradual reemergence of power in the social...

Emotion, Cognition, Health, and Development in Children and Adolescents

by Elizabeth J. Susman, Lynne V. Feagans & William J. Ray

This book focuses on integrating health and developmental issues in children and adolescents. Its primary objective is to demonstrate how development of emotions and cognition are involved in promoting health,...

Development and the Arts: Critical Perspectives

by Margery B. Franklin & Bernard Kaplan

This volume's unifying theme is the question: Is a concept of development relevant to art? Bringing together contributions from the perspectives of philosophical aesthetics, psychoanalysis, architecture and...

The Development and Treatment of Childhood Aggression

by Kenneth H. Rubin & Debra J. Pepler

Comprised of papers and commentaries from the Earlscourt Symposium on Childhood Aggression held in Toronto, Canada, this volume reflects the Earlscourt Child and Family Centre's commitment to linking clinical...

Child Psychopathology: Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Assessment

by Stephen R. Hooper, George W. Hynd & Richard E. Mattison

These two companion volumes provide a comprehensive review and critical evaluation of the major DSM-III and DSM-III-R child disorders. Their major goal is to provide diagnostic and assessment guidelines that...

Children's Strategies: Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development

by David F. Bjorklund

One of the issues central to both classic and contemporary theories of cognitive development is children's goal-directed behavior, which is typically investigated in terms of strategies. This book brings together...

Toward A Logic of Meanings

by Jean Piaget, Rolando Garcia & Philip Davidson

This book, the last one written by Piaget, presents a new line of empirical studies based on a revised formulation of his theory of the development of logical reasoning. The amended theory overcomes many problems...

Morphisms and Categories: Comparing and Transforming

by Jean Piaget, Gil Henriques & Edgar Ascher

Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological...

Development During the Transition to Adolescence: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 21

by Megan R. Gunnar & W. Andrew Collins

Research on the processes of change during the transition from middle childhood to adolescence has been a relatively neglected area of scholarship until recently. This volume, features prominent researchers...