Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Development and Learning of Young Children with Disabilities
A Vygotskian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book introduces current theories and research on disability, and builds on the premise that disability has to be understood from the dialectical dynamics of biology, psychology, and culture over time. Based on the newest empirical research on children with disabilities, the book overcomes the...
by Inge Seiffge-Krenke
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Unique and comprehensive, this volume integrates the most updated theory and research relating to adolescent coping and its determinants. This book is the result of the author's long interest in, and study of, stress, coping, and relationships in adolescence. It begins with an overview of research...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Theory of Mind Development in Context is the first book of its kind to explore how children’s environments shape their theory of mind and, in turn, their ability to interact effectively with others. Based on world-leading research, and inspired by the ground-breaking work of Candida Peterson, the...
The Child as Thinker
The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Adolescent Reputations and Risk
Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle. The escalating psychological and social toll of youth crime is being paid by all – from victims to offenders to parents and siblings to teachers and to the community as...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
For developmental scientists, the nature versus nurture debate has been settled for some time. Neither nature nor nurture alone provides the answer. It is nature and nurture in concert that shape developmental pathways and outcomes, from health to behavior to competence. This insight has moved far...
Nurturing Children and Families
Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This volume celebrates the work and influence of T. Berry Brazelton, one of the world's foremost pediatricians, by bringing together contributions from researchers and clinicians whose own pioneering work has been inspired by Brazelton's foundations in the field of child development.
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ADHD in Lebanese Schools
Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This Brief addresses the causes, assessment, and treatment of ADHD in Lebanese schoolchildren. It details how the disorder is currently defined in Lebanese elementary schools and examines schoolteachers’ understanding of and conceptions about ADHD across three domains: general knowledge; symptoms...
Young Victims, Young Offenders
Current Issues in Policy and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
At a time when the nation is focused on devising new responses to street crime and on reforming the juvenile justice system, this book brings together in a single volume, current and emerging perspectives on the control of crime by and against children and youth. Young Victims, Young Offenders provides...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
Social and Emotional Learning in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Perspectives, Programs and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Around the globe, there is a growing awareness of the importance of addressing students’ social and emotional development and wellbeing during schooling. Although the bulk of the work in this area has been conducted in North America and Europe, there is now a burgeoning interest in this topic in...
by Susan Louise Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Early Childhood Report Writing is written to help professionals and college students with report writing on young children. The focus of the book, Early Childhood Report Writing is to help professionals and college students have some examples of how the child’s personal information can be described...
Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems
From Genes to Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book brings together world leading researchers from diverse fields to explore the potential causes of the development of behaviour problems. The book presents theories that hope to influence public health, education and social policy in the prevention of the costly social troubles that behaviour...
Moral Development
A Psychological Study of Moral Growth from Childhood to Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Although the work of Piaget dealt with the intellectual development of children, and that of Goldman with a child’s religious thought, there had hitherto been no comparable book on child morality to complete the developmental picture of the time. Originally published in 1968 William Kay’s book...