Child & Developmental Psychology

Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) is an interdisciplinary and applied field that draws from developmental science, family science, and ot...

How does a woman embrace her maturity with joy and strength when her body changes year to year? Psychologist Dr. Carla Marie Manly provides an impo...

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality is a progressive text that explores the relationship between psychology, science an...

Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments guides its readers to the characteristics that tend to generate a sense of place through children’...

Infants learn to communicate through everyday social interaction with their caregivers in a multisensory world involving sight, hearing, touch and ...

Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Us...

Cerebellum and Cerebrum in Homeostatic Control and Cognition presents a ground-breaking hybrid-brain psychology, proposing that the cerebellum and ...

Originally published in 1963, this account, based on a lifetime of first-hand experience of the growing child, covers all the situations and proble...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - ...

Originally published in 1971, this book was a critical introduction to the psychology of human development, learning and assessment. It was written...

Help parents learn effective discipline techniques that result in improved behavior in your classrooms. Encourage active partnerships between schoo...

With burgeoning numbers of nonresidential parents, how can policymakers and professionals who work with families address the emotional and financia...

"This new edition of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development is obligatory reading for anyone interested in the integration of evolutionary ...

Contextualising core topics in development from infancy to adolescence, Child Development guides students to understand the field as both fully g...

`Strongly recommended as it provides a very useful overview of a range of methods, mainly textual, for exploring children′s experiences. These acco...

Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about fathers. Us...

`This book is a tremendous resource for any early years setting. It enables us and encourages us to explore the process of artistic development thr...

What does an adolescent really learn about adult responsibilities from holding down a paying job or doing household chores? Does a teenager′s emplo...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

This is not a book that will tell the reader how to treat tuberculosis or diarrhea in the Third World. It is not a book the nurse will use to assig...

Help teens who are at risk of experiencing or perpetuating abuse with The Youth Relationships Manual. Designed to build strengths, resilience, and ...

Originally published in 1977, Psychology for the Classroom is offered as an aid to people who are learning themselves and helping other people to l...

Morality has once again become an important focus of research in different scientific disciplines, from biology, neuroscience and evolutionary psyc...

Written to give the front line practitioner help in assessing and managing allegations of sexual abuse cases with children from the ages of 18 mont...

"Bridgeman′s Psychology and Evolution is a superb textbook in evolutionary psychology…I see it as a landmark in the emergence of evolutionary psyc...

First published in 1987, Biological-Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence explores the mutually - influential relations between biological...

This is Volume VII of seven in a collection on Social Psychology. Originally published in 1928, the study looks at the origin of the symbolic proce...

"Making Human Beings Human tells the remarkable scientific story of Urie Bronfenbrenner′s journey toward ′a bioecology of human development′- a d...

A worthwhile effort. --The Hindustan Times "Children and Television provides a detailed description of the patterns of representation of differen...

Millennials have been stereotyped as both "entitled slackers" and "the next greatest generation." This study uses depth interviews to offer a schol...

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in...

Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational, neural, and ge...

Why do people age differently? Research in the field of gerontology has indicated that there are large individual differences in personality, cogni...

Written to give the front line practitioner help in assessing and managing allegations of sexual abuse cases with children from the ages of 18 mont...