Child & Developmental Psychology

By his wide influence as author and teacher C.W. Valentine had established himself as a leading authority in this country on child psychology appli...

Developmental and Educational Psychology for Teachers brings together a range of evidence drawn from psychology to answer a number of critical educ...

The relationship between the cognitive and social spheres of human functioning and their context has long been regarded by social and behavioural s...

This volume seeks to identify and define the parameters of a relatively new problem area -- parental development. Drawing on the grand developmenta...

This volume studies age as a basis for social organization by uniting research from the social science disciplines while implementing both cross-cu...

This book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address fou...

A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary ...

Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children’s reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems. The first part describ...

Adolescent Identity and Schooling: Diverse Perspectives examines a range of issues related to student adjustment and achievement through research o...

Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of social cogniti...

This collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E. Lambert and his contributions to the fields of language and linguistics. Each chapter, written...

Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of social cogniti...

It has often been maintained that young children's knowledge is limited to perceptual appearances. In this "preoperational" stage of development, t...

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience. T...

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals ...

This volume is concerned with elucidating similarities and differences in enculturation processes that help to account for the ways in which indivi...

– The most famous Russian psychologist, whose life and ideas are least known?– A pioneer of psychology who said virtually nothing new?– A simple ma...

Until the 70s and 80s anthropologists studying different cultures had mainly confined themselves to the behaviour and idea systems of adults. Psych...

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience. T...

Children today are digital natives, growing up in an age where social media and online communication is the norm. This book is an indispensable gui...

Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychol...

Overweight students often suffer negative consequences with regard to low physical ability, skills, and fitness; obesity-related health implication...

Originally published in 1942, this title attempted to trace, from their very earliest appearances after birth, all aspects of mental development in...

This book provides a reconstruction of Aristotelian character education, shedding new light on what moral character really is, and how it can be hi...

Originally published in 1984, this title looks at the development of temperament in early life. At the time of publication there were three major p...

This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in ch...

A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and sta...

Originally published in 1940, this book was addressed to students of the psychology of childhood and to parents and teachers who were trying to get...

Overweight students often suffer negative consequences with regard to low physical ability, skills, and fitness; obesity-related health implication...

A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and sta...

The Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods offers a clear understanding of the most important research challenges and issues in the burgeoning fi...

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

This Special Issue encompasses studies of a wide range of developmental disorders, including Specific Language Impairment (SLI), reading disability...

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

Adolescent Identity and Schooling: Diverse Perspectives examines a range of issues related to student adjustment and achievement through research o...

One of the issues central to both classic and contemporary theories of cognitive development is children's goal-directed behavior, which is typical...

For fifty years Bärbel Inhelder (1913-1997) was the research companion of Jean Piaget. In this unique volume, published in her honour, leading inte...

The Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods offers a clear understanding of the most important research challenges and issues in the burgeoning fi...

Originally published in 1980, this title considers the relationship between feeling able to cope and being able to learn – that is, the interdepend...

This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the t...

Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us t...

Difference, Dialogue, and Development is an in-depth exploration of the collected works of Mikhail Bakhtin to find relevance of key concepts of dia...

This book compares the beginning of symbolic thought in human infancy with that of our close primate relatives, the chimpanzees. The author investi...

An important contribution to the emerging body of research-based knowledge about English grammar, this volume presents empirical studies along with...

When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners ...