Child Psychology category: 2885 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This volume represents major research issues in language production today, presenting readers with a picture of the breadth of current research in the field. Contributors have focused on models of visual word processing, aphasic speech, object recognition and language production in children. Many...
Action Meets Word
How Children Learn Verbs
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2006
Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how...
Recess
Its Role in Education and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Writing a book about recess could be a very questionable endeavor for a serious academic psychologist. At first blush it seems to be a pretty trivial topic. It's the time during the school day where there's a break from what's typically considered the most serious work of the day--reading, writing,...
Stress, Trauma, and Children's Memory Development
Neurobiological, Cognitive, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Few questions in psychology have generated as much debate as those concerning the impact of childhood trauma on memory. A lack of scientific research to constrain theory has helped fuel arguments about whether childhood trauma leads to deficits that result in conditions such as false memory or lost...
The Resilient Child
Preparing Today's Youth For Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
If you try to identify the basic qualities of a child "most likely to succeed" as an adult, what words might first come to mind? Independent? Likable? Creative? Disciplined? According to Dr. Joanne Joseph, the essence of a productive and healthy personality is a positive and secure self-image and...
Maternal Sensitivity
Mary Ainsworth's Enduring Influence on Attachment Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Mary Ainsworth’s work on the importance maternal sensitivity for the development of infant attachment security is widely recognized as one of the most revolutionary and influential contributions to developmental psychology in the 20th century. Her longitudinal studies of naturalistic mother-infant...
Causality and Development
Neo-Eriksonian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The third book in Young’s unique trilogy on causality and development continues to locate and define the central role of causality in biopsychosocial and network/systems development, and as a unifying concept of psychology itself. As a way of discussing causality, in general, initially, the book...
Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Clinical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Adolescence is a challenging stage for all individuals, especially for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Individuals with ASD face increased social isolation and engage in more challenging behaviors during adolescence. They also experience increased mental health challenges including anxiety...
Boyhoods
Rethinking Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not strictly dependent on normative expectation. As he writes...
Mental Health Screening at School
Instrumentation, Implementation, and Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This volume examines the use of prediagnostic mental health screening as part of preventive services in primary and secondary schools. It presents the theory underlying mental health screening for children and the obstacles against its widespread implementation. Empirical findings illustrate the potential...
Intelligence and Human Progress
The Story of What was Hidden in our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Written by James R. Flynn of the "Flynn effect" (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human Progress examines genes and human achievement in all aspects, including what genes allow and forbid in terms of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume offer here chapters and position papers concerned with children’s memory. The chapters represent in-depth reports on children’s sensory memory, rehearsal processes, and organizational processes, as well as treatments of constructive...
From Orthography to Pedagogy
Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...
by M.D. Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The term ‘visual perception’ covers a very wide range of psychological functions. This title, originally published in 1970, which provides a broad survey of this vast field of knowledge, would have proved a valuable general account for students taking degree courses in psychology at the time....