Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Play Therapy in Action
A Casebook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives. The goal is to reflect the broad spectrum of approaches that now exist in the field. The major psychopathologies in children present the therapist with different...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This volume examines the psychological, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the most basic moral commitments. It begins by looking at the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality have transformed the research...
Medical and Mental Health During Childhood
Psychosocial Perspectives and Positive Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of medical and mental illness in children, detailing how psychological, academic, and social functioning can be enhanced – and inherent challenges overcome – in young patients. The volume describes best-practices in depth, including how to ensure...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!
Winner, APA Division 52 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award, 2014!
This new volume reviews the latest research on fathering from every continent, from cultures representing over 50% of the world’s population. International experts on...
Handbook of Response to Intervention
The Science and Practice of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The Second Edition of this essential handbook provides a comprehensive, updated overview of the science that informs best practices for the implementation of response to intervention (RTI) processes within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) to facilitate the academic success of all students. The...
The Human Spark
The Science of Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
What makes a human a human? In The Human Spark, pioneering psychologist Jerome Kagan offers an answer in a sweeping narrative of our personal, moral, and cultural development. In this extended meditation on human psychology as well as the methods, successes, and failures of the scientists who study...
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes, and reduction of prejudice and discrimination. It balances a detailed discussion of theories and selected research with applied...
by Professor Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from undergraduate level upwards, the book provides a wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspective on human development, with illustrations from pre-natal...
Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence
A Neuropsychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This text presents a comprehensive overview of the psychopathological disorders of childhood and adolescence from a brain-based perspective. Based upon the highly respected Handbook of Pediatric Neuropsychology, this text covers all of the major pediatric disorders described in the DSM-IV-TR, while...
The Psychology of Language
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Breaking through the boundaries of traditional psycholinguistics texts, The Psychology of Language: An Integrated Approach*,* by David Ludden, takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves the latest developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. Separate chapters on bilingualism...
Kids' Slips
What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips,...
Beyond Individual Differences
Organizing Processes, Information Overload, and Classroom Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In an era of intense interest in educational reform, spurred by increasing global competition for jobs and advancement, it is more critical than ever to understand the nature of learning. And although much attention is paid to differences between learners, short shrift is often given to cognitive...
Creative Centers and Homes
Infant Care, Planning and Developing Family Day Care, and Approaches to Designing and Creating the Child's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Creative Centers and Homes views childcare as an integral, vital, and comprehensive service for all families; infant care, family homes and centers; focusing on specific required services including licensing, location, extent of services, design and environment for learning and playing for young children,...