Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Women Rowing North
Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
New York Times Bestseller *USA Today Bestseller*Los Angeles Times Bestseller *Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age by the author of Reviving Ophelia.
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher...
Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.
Job Skills and Minority Youth
New Program Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for minority high school students that seek to cultivate marketable job skills. The first is an after-school program that provides experiences similar to apprenticeships, and the second...
by Victoria Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1933, this volume was the result of many years’ careful first-hand study of child psychology enriched by the author’s unusually wide experience in dealing with the subject with students. It was intended to follow the development of children from infancy to adolescence,...
Social Development
Relationships in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This authoritative, engaging work examines the key role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from the earliest infant-caregiver transactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Sections cover foundational developmental science, the self and relationships,...
Attaching in Adoption
Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health....
by Nathan Ory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Case studies of persons with developmental disabilities, autism, fetal alcohol syndrome, mental handicaps with practical approaches.
Recovery from Co-Dependency
It's Never Too Late to Reclaim Your Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Recovery From Co-dependency: It's Never Too Late To Reclaim Your Childhood by Laurie Weiss and Jonathan B. Weiss
This book may be used as a map for therapists and Adult Children on the road to recovery from Co-Dependency. Developmental issues are addressed, patterns of substitute behavior are...
The Environment
Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is only later confronted with the demands of external reality, Carolyn Saari posits that human beings initially construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identities within that environment....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the most authoritative and accessible account of all aspects of child development. Written by an international team of experts, its comprehensive coverage includes everything from prenatal development to adolescence, pediatrics, theories and...
Freaks of Nature : And what they tell us about evolution and development
What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Two-legged goats conjoined twins 'Cyclops' infants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead double-headed snakes and Laloo a man with a partially formed twin attached to his chest... In Freaks of Nature Mark S. Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on these unusual examples of humans and other...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The field of Music Psychology has grown dramatically in the past 20 years, to emerge from being just a minor topic to one of mainstream interest within the brain sciences. However, until now, there has been no comprehensive reference text in the field. The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology is a...
Lost and Found
The Journey of Women at Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Both inspirational and informational, Lost and Found delivers masterful insights into the developmental processes of aging, woven with personal stories, philosophical quotes and self-discovery worksheets to help every middle-aged woman find her way to her new shore. Alyson Schafer Author of Honey,...
Technology Play and Brain Development
Infancy to Adolescence and Future Implications
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Technology Play and Brain Development brings together current research on play development, learning technology, and brain development. The authors first navigate the play technology and brain development interface, highlighting the interactive qualities that make up each component. Next, they survey...