Child & Developmental Psychology

The groundbreaking book that puts the focus on teens and young adults with social challenges This book offers parents a step-by-step guide to makin...

Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through, and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers, and social workers. Marking the trans...

A book that brings up to date theory and understanding of child development in the early years into the workplace. During the last ten years our ...

A practical look at how play therapy can promote mental health wellness in children and adolescents Revised and expanded, The Therapeutic Powers of...

This new Major Work, in five volumes, captures the key conceptual issues and findings in research covering social development in early childhood, t...

This practical book helps readers provide effective mental, emotional, and behavioral health services to clients across the continuum of care, from...

Over the last four decades, breakthroughs in genetic knowledge, together with the emergence of disciplines devoted to the scientific study of devel...

Breaking through the boundaries of traditional psycholinguistics textbooks, The Psychology of Language: An Integrated Approach takes an integrated,...

The child's world often revolves around dreams and fantasy. Imaginary friends, places and play can seem entirely real, and yet in dismissing these ...

Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed m...

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race. ...

Toxic stress can occur in any home, rich or poor, regardless of age, education, or walk of life. Research has shown that adaptive, supportive paren...

The Development of Childrens Thinking offers undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other disciplines an introduction to several cor...

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In an ...

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such va...