Child Development category: 2058 books
Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children
Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Does your child struggle to know how their body is feeling? Do they find it hard to balance or feel uneasy when their feet leave the ground? Early trauma and neglect can have a profound effect upon a child's development. Sensory integration theory offers a way of understanding how the brain processes...
The Whole-Brain Child
12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book.
“Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.”—Harvey Karp, M.D.
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by Maricela Correa-Chávez, Rebeca Mejía-Arauz, Barbara Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond...
by Christine B. McCormick, PhD, David G. Scherer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This accessible text--now revised and updated--has given thousands of future educators a solid grounding in developmental science to inform their work in schools. The book reviews major theories of development and their impact on educational practice. Chapters examine how teaching and learning intersect...
by Sara Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children are shaped by the social world that surrounds them but they also shape the social worlds that they, and those significant...
Child Psychology
A Handbook of Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This third edition of Child Psychology continues the tradition of showcasing cutting-edge research in the field of developmental science, including individual differences, dynamic systems and processes, and contexts of development. While retaining a similar structure to the last edition, this revision...
by Janette B. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Volume 46 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in this area.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including internalization and socialization, infants' discovery of structure, adolescents' theories of the commons,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
One of the most widely used assessments of infants and toddlers, the BAYLEY-III measures the major areas of development including cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive functioning. This book provides an introduction into use of the BAYLEY-III in each of these five areas. For each...
Development in Infancy
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This topically-organized text provides a comprehensive overview of infant development with a strong theoretical and research base. Readers gain a clear understanding of infant development and issues that will be the focus of significant advances in infancy studies in the future. The new fifth edition...
Retro Toddler
More Than 100 Old-School Activities to Boost Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
You don't need to buy high-tech digital devices, apps, or expensive toys to boost your toddler's brain development! Research shows that the best way for toddlers to learn is through daily, active play and Retro Toddler includes more than 100 fun, age-appropriate, "old-school" activities...
Child Development
An Active Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the Third Edition of the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce A. Munsch invite students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development. Using robust pedagogical tools built into...
Children and Adolescents
A Biocultural Approach to Psychological Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
An individual's understanding of himself must begin with an appreciation of his origin. Thus, the concern of modern man to understand his behavior has led to an investigation of the forces that influence human development. Investigation encompasses many academic subjects: genetics, biology, medicine,...
by Hayne W. Reese
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1994
Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Originally published in 1978, contemporary theory and research into childhood social development had demonstrated the necessity to re-appraise the notion that socialization is merely a process of shaping the behaviour of the child to fit the mores of society. It was now evident that, from the beginnings...