Child & Developmental Psychology

This book demonstrates that the relationship between attachment theory and psychoanalysis is more complex than adherents of either community genera...

In this book, the author describes and discusses the physical and emotional changes that younger adolescents go through and how these affect and ar...

This book develops models and hypotheses about the mechanisms of the origin of language and the self. It offers a highly original discussion of lan...

This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look afte...

In this book the author traces the way that early psychic development from birth up to three years is reflected throughout our lifespan, including ...

This book draws on the experience of some eighty severely deprived children referred for individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy to the Tavistock a...

Originally published in 1927, this was a book written specially for teachers and parents, based upon the writers practical experience and research....

This book discusses psychoanalytic understanding of childhood autism and of autistic aspects of adult patients. It describes a wide range of adult ...

This book increases the reader's understanding of violent children and the value and vicissitudes of their psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psycho...

How do I manage an aggressive child positively when I have twenty other children who need my attention? How can I develop a good relationship with ...

We spend a lot of time thinking about other people: their motivations, what they are thinking, why they want particular things. Sometimes we are aw...

This book suggests that psychotherapeutic treatment which is based on a deep understanding of the function of autism can modify and heal the overwh...

Originally published in 1975, this book aimed to throw light on the practical use of psychology in childrens education, for the benefit of students...

Hidden Youth and the Virtual World examines the phenomenon of hidden youth or hikikomori, as it is better known in Japan as well as Hong Kong. Expo...

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate how the phenomenon of early childhood autism may cast light on issues that are central to our Understand...

Cognitive style, a psychological construct, characterizes individual differences in styles of perceiving, remembering, thinking and judging. Origin...

This book describes a series of cases where the child's presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that ...

Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health a...

This book describes the lives and theories of the pioneer child psychoanalysts who created the field of child psychoanalysis and contributed to the...

Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: A Five Areas Approach uses the tried and tested Five Areas model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)...

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It covers theoretical and methodological foundations and exa...

Adolescent Portraits introduces contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today through eighteen first-person account...

Adolescent Portraits introduces contemporary theories and research that surround adolescent development today through eighteen first-person account...

If a person is struggling with feeling that involve pain or anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting that person's capacit...

For decades there has been considerable interest in the ways that interactions between children can provide a beneficial context for the study of c...

Focusing on developmental psychology, this work features 12 essays exploring contemporary views and developments in research and theory in the rela...

Conflict Narratives in Middle Childhood presents evidence from twenty years of research, examining nearly 3,000 narratives from 1,600 children in e...

Conflict Narratives in Middle Childhood presents evidence from twenty years of research, examining nearly 3,000 narratives from 1,600 children in e...

In the second edition of his unique study of peer relationships in childhood, Dr Barry Schneider re-examines this fundamental aspect of childhood. ...

Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of langua...

The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognit...

Uta Frith has been an outstandingly influential figure in the field of developmental neuropsychology for over 40 years, and is internationally reno...

This book examines adults' identifications and internal relationships with their siblings' mental representations. The authors believe that the bes...

The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting illuminates the widespread success of the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Paren...

This book investigates parental engagement in the transition to school in China and Australia, which were taken as representatives of Eastern and W...

Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict examines how fundamental, universal animal drives, such as dominance/prevalence, survival, kinship...

A comprehensive guide to meeting the psychological needs of students in school settings This unique volume by leading educational practitioners ...

Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making Process: Child and Adolescent Assessment and Intervention explains the clinical decision-making process, bot...

The Definitive reference on the important role fathers play in child development today Edited by Dr. Michael Lambthe recognized authority on the r...