Child & Developmental Psychology

This book is about children in State care and its title - Waiting to be Found - is derived from an observation about such children by the child psy...

This text presents a methodical, organized approach to counseling students in emotional intelligence (EI) by detailing how to understand and direct...

Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as pla...

In this fully revised new edition, Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues summarises and analyses the most relevant resear...

Originally published in 1932, Adolescent Girlhood set out to give a general view of the more everyday problems a girl might encounter during adoles...

This special issue examines gender construction by children in some of its rich cultural and contextual complexity and in some of its interactions ...

Originally published in 1931, the study reported in this book was undertaken as part of the research programme of the Canadian National Committee f...

In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the ...

Managing Social Anxiety in Children and Young People introduces a new approach for working with anxious children and young people to help them deve...

For this volume, the author has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships...

Romantic relationship formation and the engagement in sexual behaviors are normative and salient developmental tasks for adolescents and young adul...

The condition known as adolescence is largely an artefact of advance industrial societies. How, then, do those who are labelled as adolescent condu...

Based on a rich seam of research evidence, this book leverages value in engaging with scientific enquiry to further understanding of young children...

Premature children suffering consequences of their early birth do not grow out of them, and new difficulties may appear as they mature. The sum of ...

This book is the author's 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psy...

A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucaults genealogical analytic, Pinto a...

How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people w...

Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse cont...

This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It presents for the...

Thinking About Children collects thirty-one papers, of which twenty-eight have never previously been published. As might be expected, they range wi...

This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational inst...

This book explores the mysteries of the human brain and the potential of the mind. The peculiarities and infinitude of the mind have been a theme f...

The Neuroscience of the Developing Child informs Early Years (EY) students, practitioners and parents about the fundamental importance of self-regu...