Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by Karma Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
TRANSFORMING SMALL RESOLUTIONS INTO GRAND RESULTS IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK.
Recent research in psychophysiology, computational neuroscience and holistic medicine has illuminated motivations about such aspects of everyday life as personal success, professional achievement, level of motivation,...
by Ram Bansal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Extraordinariness is not for everybody to attain, but it may be for YOU if you are primarily disciplined, are health-conscious, have strong will-power and understand the mechanism of being an extraordinary person in your own society or in the whole humanity dealt with in this volume, as is evident...
Modern Families
Parents and Children in New Family Forms
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), egg donation,...
Conflict Narratives in Middle Childhood
The Social, Emotional, and Moral Significance of Story-Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Conflict Narratives in Middle Childhood presents evidence from twenty years of research, examining nearly 3,000 narratives from 1,600 children in eight settings in two countries about their own experiences with interpersonal conflict. Close readings, combined with systematic analysis of dozens of...
Play, Learning, and Children's Development
Everyday Life in Families and Transition to School
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This book explores the dynamics in children's everyday lives as they move between school and the family, with particular consideration of how children's motives change in response to new challenges. Professors Mariane Hedegaard and Marilyn Fleer follow four children, two from Australia and two from...
by HRI
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
In an ever changing world, anyone can go through multiple hardships. Therefore, a number of despair and the strength to response to obstacles is necessary for a happy and successful life. Let's talk more about resilience.
Difficult crisis can sometimes be the starting point of a stage of leap...
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Cuentos para comprender lo que sienten los niños
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
La educación de un niño no es tarea fácil, menos aún en una sociedad como la nuestra, donde el éxito se mide en dinero y propiedades que la persona consigue acumular a lo largo de su vida. La mayoría de los padres experimentan agobio y temor al pensar en el futuro de sus hijos. Desde el ámbito...
by Barrie Gunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players. It examines the debates about the potential effects of these games and the divisions between scholars working in the field. It places the research on violent...
Situated Learning
Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1991
In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic...
Child Psychopathology
From Infancy to Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This textbook covers the classification, causes, treatment and prevention of psychological disorders in the infant through the adolescent years. Chapters balance the social and historical context of psychopathology with the physiological roots of abnormal behavior, leading students to a comprehensive...
Cyberbullying in the Global Playground
Research from International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Cyberbullying in the Global Playground provides the first global, in-depth analysis of the emerging phenomenon of cyberbullying.
Offers the first thorough comparative account of recent research into the emerging global phenomenon of cyberbullying
Provides an international perspective on the prevalence...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
As people grow older, cultural issues arise. Recognizing how social influences guide and restrict people leads to a better understanding of one’s self and helps people as they age. The Handbook of Research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Aging provides emerging research on midlife issues,...
Children's Play and Development
Cultural-Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 29, 2009
Life-Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics begins with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of both the Life Span and the Life Course...