Child & Developmental Psychology

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easil...

This is a comprehensive statement about adolescent development, identity formation, and treatment.

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, th...

How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions – both happy and sad? This book answers questions regarding the foundation of em...

In The Means to Grow Up, Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"—a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving...

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates ...

This vital volume advances understanding of how parenting from childhood to adolescence changes or remains the same in a variety of sociodemographi...

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to t...

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates ...

A provocative guide to the hidden dangers of “parentspeak”—those seemingly innocent phrases parents use when speaking to their young children. Imag...

Thinking about the Teaching of Thinking provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Feuerstein’s theory of Mediated Learning Experienc...

This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binar...

This book uses an intersectional approach to explore the ways in which girls and adults in school systems hold multiple realities, negotiate tensio...

Addressing the intersections between cognitive, sociocultural, and sociolinguistic research, this volume explores bilingual development across educ...

Semiotic Construction of the Self in Multicultural Societies elaborates on a holistic theory on the self, by means of integrating social representa...

This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binar...

Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship...

This landmark text integrates diverse perspectives on how humans understand others’ minds (or ‘theory of mind’) beyond early childhood into middle ...

This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child developme...

Children and Television Consumption in the Digital Era provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary research on the developmental impact of ch...

This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child developme...

"How do you go from a bunch of cells to something that can think?" This question, asked by the 9-year-old son of one of the authors, speaks to a pu...

This fully updated fourth edition of Children in Difficulty explores some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties often encountered by...

Adolescence in India: An Interdisciplinary Perspective highlights the need and importance of studying adolescence in the domain of education. Using...

Originally published in 1988, this second edition of The Construction of Personality has been substantially revised and updated. The author provide...

Now in its second edition, this accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview of the problems, debate...

Semiotic Construction of the Self in Multicultural Societies elaborates on a holistic theory on the self, by means of integrating social representa...

The intellectual and personal history of the late Dan Olweus, a pioneer in the field of bullying management and prevention School Bullying and the ...

Psychology of Emotion reviews both theory and methods in emotion science, exploring findings about the brain; the function, expression, and regulat...

The capacity to represent and think about time is one of the most fundamental and least understood aspects of human cognition and consciousness. Th...

Psychology of Emotion reviews both theory and methods in emotion science, exploring findings about the brain; the function, expression, and regulat...

One of the most dramatic areas of development in early human life is that of vision. Whereas vision plays a relatively minor role in the world of t...

It is usual to consider the effects parents have on children; this title, originally published in 1977, reverses the focus and reveals a subject ev...

This ground-breaking text highlights the value of drawing as a meaningful way for children to communicate, demonstrating how it is inextricably lin...

There has been a recent surge in the examination of the evolutionary roots of religious belief, all trying to identify where the human desire to se...