Child & Developmental Psychology

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...

Motor Learning in Practice explores the fundamental processes of motor learning and skill acquisition in sport, and explains how a constraints-led ...

Originally published in 1988, this volume presented a new understanding of how teachers in early childhood education helped children learn. It care...

Utilizing an informal, sometimes humorous style of writing, this book brings to life 16 developmental psychologists who made a significant contribu...

These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. The contributors come from ...

This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people ...

Published in 1948: Parents have many problems. Those dealt with in this are mainly the social and emotional difficulties arising in the development...

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers. Their research and writing focused on the folklore of British children their games, rhymes, r...

Parenting adolescents is a challenging task for parents. Professionals offer a range of support and parenting programmes to support parents. Howeve...

The papers in this volume examine the state of the art in key areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on theoretically driven resea...

This enriching book describes the value of learning about the development of the human personality through the experience of observing a baby in th...

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents choice to deceive, whether these ...

The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and we no longer s...

The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of t...

Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and cont...

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...