Child & Developmental Psychology

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work concerning crosslinguistic influence, or "transfer," this book will become the authorit...

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to analyzing...

A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to ...

This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Recorded over ...

Recent SLA research recognizes the necessity of attention to grammar and demonstrates that form-focused instruction is especially effective when it...

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Maki...

This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artis...

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive...

In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing ma...

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive...

How do brothers and sisters shape one another? Siblings in Adolescence provides a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date, international empi...

Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce… or so we are told.Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun abo...

Metacognition is a complex construct which is fundamental to learning. Its complex, fuzzy and multifaceted nature has often led to its colloquial a...

The volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the commu...

Data generated from longitudinal studies allow researchers to better understand how context and experience interact with stable characteristics of ...

Children with autism spectrum disorders share a pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction skills but vary in their v...

"What I am offering is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of 'evolutionary psycholo...

Clinical psychologist Daniel J. Flannery reveals the impact of violence and victimization in the lives of children and adolescents from a developme...

Clinical psychologist Daniel J. Flannery reveals the impact of violence and victimization in the lives of children and adolescents from a developme...

Family Relationships in Middle Childhood presents a study of family life among parents and children during 'middle childhood'. Combining the perspe...

Infants may seem to do little more than eat, sleep, and play. Yet behind this misleadingly simplistic façade occurs an awe-inspiring process of dev...

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, th...

In the second edition of What All Children Need, Linda Dunlap provides important new information and guidance for educators, counselors, clinicians...