Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction
Families, Origins and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Assisted reproduction challenges and reinforces traditional understandings of family, kinship and identity. Sperm, egg and embryo donation and surrogacy raise questions about relatedness for parents, children and others involved in creating and raising a child. How socially, morally or psychologically...
Flourishing Children
Defining and Testing Indicators of Positive Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet measures of many aspects of flourishing...
by Louis Cozolino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Unlocking the secrets of positive aging.
Few prejudices in Western society are more powerful than those concerning aging. Until recently, we have assumed that the story of aging is one of loss and decline. But there’s an entirely different truth. Yes, you can teach an old dog—or even a...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
A companion volume to Family Observational Coding Systems, this book moves from the triad to the dyad and provides a showcase for significant developments in the coding of intimate couple interactions. The hope is that this book will contribute to the broadening and deepening of the field by disseminating...
The Welfare Trait
How State Benefits Affect Personality
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award-winning...
Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation
New Evidence from Four Continents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development, the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU, ASEAN,...
A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging
Coping with Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father’s way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional way. They envision...
Motherhood Optional
A Psychological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Reminding women that motherhood is an option, not a given (much less an instinct), New York psychotherapist Phyllis Ziman Tobin contends that choosing to be or not to be a mother is the defining rite of passage for today's woman. She draws on the composite struggles of real people to show how the...
by LYA
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book contains an interactive table of contents.
Extract : Particular issues may prevent you from easily forging fresh
connections and intensifying your existing ones, holding you in a
ceaseless state of disconnection. Here are a few of the most basic
roadblocks that take you out of alignment...
Les manipulateurs sont parmi nous
Qui sont-ils ? Comment s'en protéger?
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Sympathiques, séduisants, réservés ou carrément tyranniques, les manipulateurs utilisent diverses manœuvres pour parvenir à leurs fins. Agissant en douceur, ces proches — parents, conjoint, connaissances, collègues — parviennent à nous culpabiliser, à nous dévaloriser et à semer le...
La voix de l'intuition
L'entendre, la reconnaître, la suivre
Language: French
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Comment contacter plus facilement la «petite voix intérieure» de l'intuition? Comment la distinguer des autres voix qui nous traversent l'esprit en permanence, celles de la raison, de la peur ou du désir?
Ce livre propose une série d'exercices simples et ludiques pour la faire résonner...
La puissance de votre subconscient
Le secret d'une force prodigieuse à votre portée
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Voici un des livres de croissance personnelle les plus célèbres de tous les temps. La puissance de votre subconscient a aidé des millions de personnes à atteindre des objectifs remarquables en les invitant tout simplement à transformer leur façon de penser. Cette édition revue et augmentée est...
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Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Dieses Lehrbuch befasst sich mit der Entwicklungspsychologie des Jugendalters. Es vermittelt in verständlich geschriebenen Kapiteln Grund- und Anwendungswissen zu allen relevanten Entwicklungsbereichen und geht speziell auf für diese Lebensphase zentrale Themen ein, wie z.B. Medienkonsum, Sozialbeziehungen,...
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons
The Search for Masculine Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers' silence or absence—sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual. Why is this...