Child & Developmental Psychology

This book consists of selected texts presented at the EFPP Conference in Cracow, Poland, in October 2011. It is an attempt at finding the place of ...

This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of...

  This book identifies a number of topics that arise in child protection where assessments of individual families are required.  The author opines...

Originally published in 1982, Emotion and Early Interaction is a collection of papers by investigators who had been attempting to integrate emotion...

This book provides an overview of changes in legislation in Australia concerning both family law and child protection law. The topic is important a...

Towards Inclusive Societies: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives focuses on the importance of building inclusive societies and communities ...

First published in 1930, the object of Love in the Machine Age was to popularize a modern and scientific view of behavior, and thereby help people ...

A cloth-bound four-volume set including Melanie Klein's best-known works.This is a facsimile edition of the 1975 Hogarth Press four-volume set with...

Nurturing Babies explores the key processes behind how a childs mind and body develop in their first year, underpinned by the latest research in th...

The Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills, Handwriting, and Spelling explores the potentially controversial field of early litera...

The Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills, Handwriting, and Spelling explores the potentially controversial field of early litera...

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...

With contributions from Aidalida Altamirano, Carl Bagnini, Ana Maria Barroso, Anabella Brostella, Vali Maduro, Elizabeth Palacios, David Scharff, J...

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...