Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Understanding Child Development
Psychological Perspectives and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Understanding Child Development introduces the main areas of developmental psychology in childhood. Drawing on content which first appeared in ‘Understanding Child Development’, published in 1986, the book includes new bases of evidence and offers an interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
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Childhood Re-imagined
Images and Narratives of Development in Analytical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
What can Jungian psychology contribute to understanding children and childhood?
Childhood Re-imagined considers Carl Jung's psychological approach to childhood and argues that his symbolic view deserves a place between the more traditional scientific and social-constructionist views of development....
Child Psychology in Action
Linking Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Originally published in 1986, there was a divorce between the immense amount of research taking place in child psychology and the real world of professional carers or teachers working with children at the time. The aim of this book was therefore to examine the relationship between research and practice...
by Erica Burman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.
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by Usha Goswami
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and 'bonding', showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-understanding....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This stimulating volume assembles leading scholars to address issues in children’s cognitive, academic, and social development through the lens of evolutionary psychology.Debates and controversies in the field highlight the potential value of this understanding, from basic early learning skills...
Modern Educational Psychology
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Many contemporary issues in educational psychology become clearer when set against the perspective of their historical antecedents. Originally published in 1969, this book provides a survey of the most important ideas and experiments in educational psychology at the time, showing how they have helped...
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology
Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1978, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Volume 36 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes ten chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including King Solomon's Take on Word Learning, Orthographic...
Acquiring Culture (Psychology Revivals)
Cross Cultural Studies in Child Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Until the 70s and 80s anthropologists studying different cultures had mainly confined themselves to the behaviour and idea systems of adults. Psychologists, on the other hand, working mainly in Europe and America, had studied child development in their own settings and simply assumed the universality...
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Democracy and Education, The Schools of Utopia, Studies in Logical Theory, Ethics, Soul and Body, Psychology and Social Practice, Psychology of Infant Language, German Philosophy and Politics...
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
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The Grasp of Consciousness (Psychology Revivals)
Action and Concept in the Young Child
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Juvenile justice centers have a long tradition as an unfortunate stop for young offenders who need mental health care. Reports estimate that as many as 70% of the youth in detention centers meet criteria for mental health disorders. As juvenile justice systems once again turn their focus from confinement...
by Eliane Vurpillot
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
‘How do children see the world?’ is a question of immense importance which fascinates not only psychologists but also parents and all those concerned with education. In this English translation, first published in 1976, the author, who was Professor of Psychology at the René Descartes University...