Child & Developmental Psychology

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...

This book challenges the very idea of profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) itself, and what constitutes appropriate educational provi...

This book compiles papers presented at the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy's 2011 Conference, which attempts to find the place ...

This book unravels the different notions of time and history that are implicit in the history of child psychoanalysis and in the clinical approach ...

This book examines adults' identifications and internal relationships with their siblings' mental representations. The authors believe that the bes...

Investigating Pop Psychology provides the basic tools required to make evidence-informed decisions and thoughtfully distinguish science from pseudo...

This book is an outcome of the fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference held in London. The conference covers the theme of understanding and trea...

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

Many contemporary issues in educational psychology become clearer when set against the perspective of their historical antecedents. Originally publ...

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divi...

In this concise and lucid survey, originally published in 1972, the author considers the major theoretical perspectives influential in the psycholo...