Child & Developmental Psychology

Emotions are a cardinal component of everyday life, affecting one's ability to function in an adaptive manner and influencing both intrapersonal an...

With contributions from leading school psychology practitioners, this encyclopedia provides a one-of-a-kind guide to cross-cultural school psycholo...

This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for i...

Understand the connection between how kids grow and how they learn  Rae Pica knows what shes talking about. With over 35 years in the field of e...

This exciting chronological introduction to child development employs the lauded active learning approach of Levine and Munschs successful topical ...

Ageism is prevalent in a great deal of current scholarship in the social sciences as scholars fault youth for being delinquent or politically apath...

This innovative text engages students by demonstrating the wide range of real-world applications of psychological research to child development. In...

Written in a clear, readable style with a wide range of explanations and examples, this must-have dictionary reflects recent changes in the fields ...

Advances in human genetics and genomics are beginning to move outside the traditional realm of medicine and into the classroom. How will educationa...

The brain creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists b...

Effective clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of how turning points surface in the play therapy process. These moments can indicate...

Parenting is for life 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and while it is one of the most rewarding experiences life can offer it can also be frustrati...

Written by one of developmental science's foremost methodologists, The Developmental Scientist's Companion provides an engaging and accessible guid...

Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expe...

The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society. This is especially true in the arena of child...

A perennial bestseller from a leading authority, this book provides an effective 10-step program for training parents in child behavior management ...

Are you sick of nagging your child to write down homework assignments? Is his or her backpack a black hole that eats up papers, books, and gym clot...