Child & Developmental Psychology

Originally published in 1986, there was a divorce between the immense amount of research taking place in child psychology and the real world of pro...

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children’s l...

While there is an expanding literature of qualitative studies with children, there is relatively little in that literature that examines the fieldw...

This volume presents a selection of some of the most exciting new perspectives on moral development that have emerged over the last decade and have...

Career Exploration and Development in Childhood presents chapters from leading figures in the field of childhood career exploration and development...

In a unique study of parent-infant interactions at home, Rhian Jones analyses early reading with picture books and stories. Drawing upon psychology...

The term ‘visual perception’ covers a very wide range of psychological functions. This title, originally published in 1970, which provides a broad ...

Originally published in 1975, this volume contains original reports of new models and data in the areas of propositional reasoning, syllogistic rea...

Originally published in 1992, this volume provided an up-to-date overview of recent research concerning the links between family and peer systems. ...

Interest is just emerging as a critical bridge between cognitive and affective issues in both learning and development. This developing "interest" ...

Originally published in 1987, this book introduces the reader to work on the intellectual development of adolescents relevant to the secondary scho...

This volume presents a selection of some of the most exciting new perspectives on moral development that have emerged over the last decade and have...

Conceptual change, how conceptual understanding is transformed, has been investigated extensively since the 1970s. The field has now grown into a m...

Counseling Children and Adolescents gives students the information they need to prepare for work in both school and clinical mental health settings...

Counseling Children and Adolescents gives students the information they need to prepare for work in both school and clinical mental health settings...

This book presents a longitudinal study dealing with developmental changes within and between self-concepts and their relation to personal function...

This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its...

Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions. Scho...

This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style...

Research on the processes of change during the transition from middle childhood to adolescence has been a relatively neglected area of scholarship ...

The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published re...

This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform. Cognitive instruct...

Based on the proceedings of the twelfth biennial conference on life-span developmental psychology, most of the contributions in this volume deal wi...

How does a young child begin to make sense out of squiggles on a page? Is learning to read a process of extending already acquired language abiliti...