Child & Developmental Psychology

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibi...

Originally published in 1983, Play is a Feeling is an exploration of the world of childhood, those first discoveries of sensation, movement, langua...

Originally published in 1975, this volume reports a multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the precursors of intelligence, as measured by Stanfor...

Originally published in 1995, within the previous decade there had been significant developments in our understanding of the learning and motivatio...

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline phil...

Winnicott's thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her ow...

In this book, the author compares the characteristics of autistic child psychotherapies and those of the adult cases illustrated. She describes cli...

This book focuses on the intertwining between the development of a child's psyche and its parents' behaviour. It shows the importance of the earlie...

A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on t...

Untying The Knot sets out to present a clinical approach to cases where the referred patient is a child or adolescent, but in which the parents are...

Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and appr...

This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which ...

This biography provides a critical account of the life and work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). This educationist, a pioneer of child-centred educatio...

What is it about childhood experiences that influence the kind of adult we become? For John Bowlby and others who developed Attachment theory, much...

'Adolescence - when we are no longer children and have not yet reached adulthood - is a time of much disturbance, change and potential for growth. ...

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in ...

Ever faced challenges motivating clients to participate in speech therapy practice at home? Directing parents to helpful resources that reinforce a...