Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - Child

The role of the adult in the development of young children's communications skills through interaction is vital and this book will help you understand this and improve your practice.

Taking a chronological approach there is also a particular interest in the needs...

Over the years millions of parents have used the amazingly effective strategies of Positive Discipline to raise happy, well-behaved, and successful children. Research has shown that the first three years in a child's life are a critical moment in their development, and that behavior patterns instilled during that time can have...

The book Questionable Autism is focused on opening discussions about a variety of autism topics.

Looking at professional, parenting, research and testing issues numerous questions are developed

to consider the broad impact of autism topics for both parents and professionals. Author

Susan Louise Peterson weaves her experiences as an educator and school psychologist for young

children into a discussion of some of the major issues impacting the field of autism. Questionable

Autism includes many real world examples related to parenting topics, field issues...

This manual is a user-friendly, comprehensive description of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) model of autism treatment--the latest scientific information on what truly works in treating autism in an integrated, organized, consumable format. The book details effective early behavioral intervention, covering topics such as challenging behavior, visual modification, parental involvement, improving language, cognition, and social skills, and ends with a section that explains how all of the treatments can be put together in real-life service provision organizations. The CARD...

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book. Leading researchers summarize recent findings on the extent, role, and function of IIV in human development with a focus on how, when, and why individuals change over time. The latest theoretical, methodological, and technological advances are reviewed. The book explores the historical and theoretical background and challenges of IIV research along with its role and function in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Edited to maximize...

Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book. Leading researchers summarize recent findings on the extent, role, and function of IIV in human development with a focus on how, when, and why individuals change over time. The latest theoretical, methodological, and technological advances are reviewed. The book explores the historical and theoretical background and challenges of IIV research along with its role and function in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Edited to maximize...

Originally published in 1984, this title looks at the development of temperament in early life. At the time of publication there were three major perspectives on temperament: paediatrics, individual differences in infants, and inherited personality traits that appear in early life. Whatever the diversity of these perspectives, they converge on personality traits that develop early in life, hence the title of this book. The authors start by looking at the main research in this field, then go on to discuss their own approach to temperament, building on their original theory from 1975.

Originally published in 1981, this title is a collection of chapters based on papers presented at a conference called to explore what the editors called a developmental-interaction point of view - an approach to developmental psychology and education that stresses these interactive and reciprocal relations. The contributors, although from diverse professional backgrounds, are united in their commitment to an integrative view of developmental phenomena, one that highlights relationships among different aspects of development and the reciprocal nature of relations between people and their...

Originally published in 1980, this title considers the relationship between feeling able to cope and being able to learn - that is, the interdependence of affect and cognition in children under five. It argues that in order to make full use of his cognitive capacities the child must first develop the belief that he is able to cope and be effective.

When the child enters school at the age of five his behaviour will reflect the influence of various important developmental factors. It is only by understanding the nature of the interactions of these influences that one can...

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children's literature. Being highly complex aesthetic products, their use is deeply embedded in specific situations of joint attention between a caregiver and a child. This volume focuses on the question of what children may learn from looking at picturebooks, whether printed in a book format, created in a digital format, or self-produced by educationalists and researchers.

Interest in the relationship between cognitive processes and children's...

The book series, Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy. will consist of a state of the art handbook (to be revised every five years) and two to three volumes per year. The first volume in this seriesis a legacy to C. Henry Kempe. This is a timely publication because 2012 marks 50 years after the appearance of the foundational article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues, The Battered-Child Syndrome. This volume capitalizes on this 50 year anniversary to stand back and assess the field from the perspective that Dr. Kempe s early contributions and ideas are still...

At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on sociocultural experience, the concept of the person has all but vanished from psychology.

Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency recasts theories of mind, behavior, and self, synthesizing a range of psychologists and philosophers to restore the...

Mag es auf den ersten Blick widerspruchlich erscheinen, dass Suizidalitat und nichtsuizidales selbstverletzendes Verhalten in einem Band abgehandelt werden, so zeigt die Erfahrung, dass die Trennlinie nicht so scharf ist, wie diagnostische Klassifikationssysteme suggerieren.

In diesem Band der Reihe "Manuale der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie" wird ubersichtlich der aktuelle Stand der Forschung dargestellt. Zudem werden alle praxisrelevanten Aspekte - von der ausfuhrlichen Diagnostik, bis hin zu verschiedenen Therapieformen - zusammengefasst.

Die Reihe "Manuale psychischer...