Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Handbook of Australian School Psychology
Integrating International Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This handbook addresses the current state and practice of school psychology with a focus on standards unique to Australia, including historical, legal, ethical, practical, and training factors. It provides a compilation of the most current research-based practices as well as guidelines for evidence-based...
Psychology of Early Childhood
Up to the Sixth Year of Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1924, this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time. In this new edition the personal standpoint is emphasized, while at the same time other psychological theories...
Developments
Child, Image, Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world? What do cultural representations tell us about the contemporary politics of childhood? What is the political economy of childhood?
This companion volume to Burman's Deconstructing Developmental Psychology helps us to explain...
Treating Children with Sexually Abusive Behavior Problems
Guidelines for Child and Parent Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Treating Children with Sexually Abusive Behavior Problems: Guidelines for Child and Parent Intervention is a unique, pioneering venture in the area of sexual abuse. Unlike most books on sexual abuse, which focus on children as victims, this integrated treatment approach suggests ways to develop parallel...
Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds
A Methodological Primer, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book shows readers how to conduct observational methods, research tools used to describe and explain behaviors as they unfold in everyday settings. The book now uses both an evolutionary and a cultural perspective. The methods presented are drawn from psychology, education, family studies, sociology,...
The Biologising of Childhood
Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations.
First Charles Darwin’s own writings on child development are examined. It is shown that Darwin endorsed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in young people has long been a tough call for clinicians, either for fear of stigmatizing the child or confusing the normal mood shifts of adolescence with pathology. Now, a recent upsurge in relevant research into early-onset BPD is inspiring the...
Children and the Environment in an Australian Indigenous Community
A psychological approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Aboriginal children represent one of the fastest growing population segments in Australia, yet the lives of Aboriginal children in their environment has rarely been subjected to systematic and in-depth study. In this book, Angela Kreutz considers the relationship between the environment, attachment...
Great Psychologists as Parents
Does knowing the theory make you an expert?
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the experts practice what they preached?
Using an eclectic...
Advances in Clinical Child Psychology
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It is with both pride and sadness that we publish the twentieth and last volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. This series has seen a long and successful run starting under the editorship of Ben Lahey and Alan Kazdin, who passed the baton to us at Volume 14. We are grateful to the many...
Handbook of Child Language Disorders
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable human achievements. When language acquisition fails to occur as expected, the impact can be far-reaching, affecting all aspects of the child’s life and the child’s family. Thus, research into the nature, causes, and remediation of children’s...
by Barbel Inhelder, Hermine Sinclair, Magali Bovet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How do children learn and how are new modes of thought developed? These questions have for years been of paramount interest to psychologists and others concerned with the cognitive development of the child.
In this major work, originally published in 1974 and reporting on over ten years’...
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology
Development of the Social Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Social relationships play a central role in the evolution and development of human culture and cognition. Volume 39 of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology (Development of the Social Brain) adresses the ontogeny and phylogeny of the social brain from multiple perspectives and levels of analysis....
Parents and Children
A First Book on the Psychology of Child Development and Training
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
By his wide influence as author and teacher C.W. Valentine had established himself as a leading authority in this country on child psychology applied to early training. Originally published in 1953, this was a book for parents who need help and advice in bringing up their children and who were puzzled...