Psychology / Developmental

Fondamenti Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo

by George Butterworth & Margaret Harris

Lo scopo della psicologia dello sviluppo è descrivere e spiegare i cambiamenti nel comportamento e nelle attività psicologiche dal periodo prenatale fino alla vecchiaia. Il volume affronta in modo approfondito...

Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook

by Margaret Harris & George Butterworth

Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook is a major textbook that provides an up-to-date account of theory and research in the rapidly-changing field of child development. Margaret Harris and George Butterworth...

Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

by Natasha J. Cabrera & Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

This book brings together experts from diverse scientific disciplines who share an interest in the topic of father involvement. Unlike most books in the field, which tend to solely draw from a psychological...

Gender Development

by Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum & Lynn S. Liben

This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book's current...

Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes

by Adrian Tomer, Grafton T. Eliason & Paul T. P. Wong

Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major theoretical models; clinical...

Excluded From School: Systemic Practice for Mental Health and Education Professionals

by Sue Rendall & Morag Stuart

Excluded From School exposes the reasons why, despite many national and local initiatives, large numbers of children continue to tax the education system to such a degree that they become permanently excluded...

Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness: Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of August Flammer

by Walter J. Perrig & Alexander Grob

In this book, an international group of leading scientists present perspectives on the control of human behavior, awareness, consciousness, and the meaning and function of perceived control or self-efficacy...

Resilience Across Contexts: Family, Work, Culture, and Community

by Ronald D. Taylor & Margaret C Wang

A number of societal risks pose serious challenges to families' well-being, many of which cut across divisions of class and race. These challenges include: changes in the labor market and economy; the increasing...

Handbook of Parenting, Second Edition

by Marc H. Bornstein

Completely revised and expanded from four to five volumes, this new edition of the Handbook of Parenting appears at a time that is momentous in the history of parenting. Parenting and the family are today in...

Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade

by Holly K. Craig & Julie A. Washington

Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language...

International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse: A Cognitive Ecological Approach

by Kathleen Malley-Morrison

In this book, in which definitions and examples of abuse from men and women from every continent and a very diverse set of backgrounds are considered. The volume provides information on the extent to which family...

Cognitive Development: Neo-Piagetian Perspectives

by Sergio Morra, Camilla Gobbo & Zopito Marini

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian...

Aggression and Adaptation: The Bright Side to Bad Behavior

by Todd D. Little, Philip C. Rodkin & Patricia H. Hawley

Aggression and Adaptation raises thought provoking questions about interpersonal functioning within social groups. The reader may find him/herself entertaining thoughts about the nature of goodness as the chapters...

The Family and Individual Development

by D. W. Winnicott

The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these pages, Winnicott...

How the Child's Mind Develops

by David Cohen

* How do we get from helpless baby to knowing, ironic teenager?

* Is cognition a question of learning and environment or heredity?

* What impact do television and computers have on cognitive development?

Cognitive...

Early Poppers

by Lewis Losoncy

In a family, on the job, at school, anywhere, there are people who rise to the occasion. We call them "early poppers." Like kernels of popcorn inside a microwave bag, you can hear the first one that pops when...

Family Therapy with Struggling Young Adults

by Brad Sachs

Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor...

Winnicott On The Child

by D. W. Winnicott

Brilliant insights and understanding of children from the man who inspired Spock, Brazelton, and the entire field of child development

Group Techniques for Aging Adults: Putting Geriatric Skills Enhancement into Practice

by Kathie T. Erwin

Elders can struggle with issues of social isolation and self-esteem, and benefit from having positive coping skills at their disposal. The practical ideas Kathie Erwin imparts in this second edition help mental...

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities

by Robert M. Hodapp

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of developmental disabilities. Contributors...