Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Developmental - General

Cigdem Kagitcibasi's influential volume was a tour de force of integration and synthesis that challenged the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. During the past two decades since the original volume s publication, cultural and cross-cultural research and theory on the self, family, and human development have expanded greatly. Nevertheless, basic issues and paradigms show some stability. This Classic Edition is a critical assessment, consideration, and reflection of the recent scholarship in this field. It provides an overall evaluation of...

Wie ticken alte Menschen wirklich? Wer wissen will, wie die 65- bis 85-jahrigen heute leben und welche Einstellungen sie pragen, bekommt hier fundierte und leicht verstandliche Antworten.

Die Diskussion uber eine alter werdende Gesellschaft braucht klare Fakten. Die Generali Altersstudie liefert die umfassendste empirische Untersuchung zur Lebenssituation und den Perspektiven der Menschen zwischen 65 und 85 Jahren in Deutschland. Viele der reprasentativen Antworten der uber 4.000 Befragten verbluffen und raumen mit vielen Vorurteilen uber das Alter auf.

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The research on children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is extensive and growing. Although these conditions are recognized as affecting the entire lifespan, the literature on ASD after childhood is limited and has not been brought together in a single volume in over a decade.

Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders fills this knowledge gap by focusing on needs and difficulties unique to these stages of development. Expert contributors offer cogent reviews of complex issues, from education to employment, leisure activities to illegal behaviors, mental health...

This book discusses the main milestones of early brain development and the emergence of consciousness, within and outside the mother's environment, with a particular focus on the preterm infant. These insights offer new perspectives on issues concerning fetal pain, awareness in newborns, and the effects of current digital media on the developing infant brain.

Among the topics covered:

- Brain patterning, neural proliferation, and migration.

- The stress of being born and first breaths.

- The stream of consciousness.

- Parenting and stimulating the...

Cigdem Kagitcibasi's influential volume was a tour de force of integration and synthesis that challenged the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. During the past two decades since the original volume s publication, cultural and cross-cultural research and theory on the self, family, and human development have expanded greatly. Nevertheless, basic issues and paradigms show some stability. This Classic Edition is a critical assessment, consideration, and reflection of the recent scholarship in this field. It provides an overall evaluation of...

Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to describing, understanding, and explaining change in behavior across the lifespan and the psychological, environmental, and biological processes that co-determine this change during the organism's development. Developmental science is thus a broad discipline that lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and other allied disciplines. Advancing Developmental Science: Philosophy, Theory, and Method reflects this broad view of developmental science, and reviews the philosophical,...

Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to describing, understanding, and explaining change in behavior across the lifespan and the psychological, environmental, and biological processes that co-determine this change during the organism's development. Developmental science is thus a broad discipline that lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and other allied disciplines. Advancing Developmental Science: Philosophy, Theory, and Method reflects this broad view of developmental science, and reviews the philosophical,...

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​This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsychosocial, and early genomic models of health. Interdisciplinary chapters discuss major health concerns (diabetes, obesity),...