Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - General

• Takes an integrated approach to the development of children's social understanding
• Brings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding of language, social skills, morality and emotions.
  Sets research within a historical and theoretical context
• Contributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its...

• Presents a developmental and cross-cultural investigation into suicide among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadian youth.


• Links disruptions to developing conceptions of personal or cultural persistence with suicide rates
  
• Finds, through a series of normative studies, that Aboriginal Canadian and...

• Provides a unique wealth of concrete suggestions and a clear roadmap for successfully teaching developmental psychology
• Links chapters to major areas of a lifespan development course, including Research Methods, Teaching Infant Development, and Teaching Adolescent Development
• Offers practical, hands-on tips for novice teachers and experienced instructors...

• Offers a collaborative...

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Included are major papers that have attracted interest in the international press (including the New York Ties, Japan's Asahi Weekly, and New Scientist in England). Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods, coping with adversity, and immune function and health. Nowhere else is all this material available in one place, together with helpful integration and synthesis. For anyone interested in creativity and health, this...

Developing Creative Talent in Art is a guide for parents, teachers and others interested in developing creative art talent of young people. Visual art has its own language system by which the artist communicates to others thoughts, ideas and feelings about the world as they see them. First experienced as images and then codified in art language form, information about the world in this dual form is processed by creative imagination to produce original art works. Both the language of visual art and creative processing techniques are presented by example and instructional application so that...

Arguing for the importance of attachment and emotionality in the developing human consciousness, four prominent analysts explore and refine the concepts of mentalization and affect regulation. Their bold, energetic, and encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment combines elements of developmental psychology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic technique. Drawing extensively on case studies and recent analytic literature to illustrate their ideas, Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, and Target offer...

Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight which aspects of reading acquisition and dyslexia appear to be language-specific, and which are universal.

Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia sheds new light on dyslexia and its relationship with reading acquisition, presenting two unique advancements in this area. Looking at studies conducted in different languages, the prerequisites of reading acquisition are examined, and the findings...