Developmental

Young Investigators has been expanded to guide today’s teachers through the process of conducting meaningful investigations with young children. This fourth edition of the bestseller begins with a new chapter, “How Children Really Learn,” which...

Climate change is the biggest threat of our century, one that will impact every aspect of children's lives: their physical, emotional, moral, financial, and social health and well-being. The relationship between the climate crisis and mental health in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688177881Author Alison GopnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This edition of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's definitive biography of pioneering child analyst Anna Freud includes-among other new features-a major retrospective introduction by the author. Praise for the Second Edition: "Young-Bruehl's description of one of...

-- How can education work in harmony with a child's developing relationship with the world around it?-- How can education take account of body, soul, and spirit?Bernard Lievegoed takes a child's full humanity -- body, soul and spirit -- as his starting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869616Author Mary PipherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 274g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784520700Author Elva R AinsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 302gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is grounded in its shared nature. Joint attention to objects and events in the world provides the initial means whereby infants can start to share experiences...

In order to learn, kids need to move! Grounded in best practices and current research, this hands-on resource connects the dots that link brain activity, movement, and early learning. The expert authors unveil the Kinetic Scale: a visual map of the...

Sharing a conviction that we all have a powerful need to belong, to be attached to people, places and projects, and that social and political processes must reflect that, the contributors to this volume provide a dialogue between the psychological and...

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life summarizes the latest research on how these personality traits (psychopathology, narcissism, Machiavellianism) are defined and displayed, while also exploring...

All parents want their children to be happy - but no parent knows how to guarantee it. Now this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which parents can influence their children's happiness, providing a positive framework for emotional growth. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345434920Author Mary-Elaine JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476755571Author David WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm * 21mm

Impulsive, scattered, lost, unfocused, unprepared, disorganized: These are just a few of the words used to describe kids with executive functioning deficits, which commonly affect many children already diagnosed with ADHD, learning disabilities, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988025056Author Karen Pape, M.D.Format HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Barlow PublishingPublisher Barlow PublishingWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

With a storyteller's gift and a scientist's insights, Draaisma celebrates the unique pleasures of the aging memory You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the...

School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. They make national and international news. They make parents afraid to send their children off to school. But they also lead to generalizations about those who perpetrate them. Most...

This compelling book reveals the six fundamental levels that form the architecture of our minds. The growth of these levels, four of which are deeper even than the unconscious, depends on a series of critical but subtle emotional transactions between an...

How can clinicians help vulnerable young families overcome barriers to secure, reciprocal, and joyful parent-infant relationships? This book provides a flexible framework for promoting reflective parenting "from the ground up." Described are effective...

The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich. Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was...

All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others. If you have a "smart but scattered" child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the crucial...

A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"Brings the groundbreaking research of the top developmental psychologists of the past quarter-century to a wider audience...A masterpiece!"-Dante Cicchetti, Institute for Child Development at the University of...

In 1994 the American Psychiatric Association published the groundbreaking diagnostic criteria for autism ('Autistic Disorder'). Since then, the reported numbers of people with autism have increased from one in every 2,000 children to one in every 50--a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623365981Author Louise GreenspanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rodale Press Inc.Publisher Rodale Press Inc.Weight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Understand early childhood as a unique culture to improve the quality of care provided to children.View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens. Identify age-based bias and expand your outlook on and understanding of early childhood as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985949907Author Judith DuerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Tosi & Associates, IncorporatedPublisher Tosi & Associates, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

This book offers a comprehensive study of language development. The contributors, all well-known psychologists, represent a very broad range of theoretical persuasion. Each chapter summarises research on a major problem and relates results to fundamental...

Learn the art of growing old from the supercentenarians living life to the fullest.It's said that life begins at 40 - but that number is constantly revised upwards as we live longer and longer. With the number of centenarians having quadrupled in the...

The twentieth anniversary edition of William Martin's free-verse interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, written expressly for those coming into the fullness of their wisdom Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching reminds its readers that the sage has been venerated in...

This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications. Particular attention is paid to the Vygotskian idea of child development as a consequence rather than premise of learning experiences...

The use of ultrasonic scans in pregnancy makes it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in the womb. Dr Alessandra Piontelli has done what no one has done before: she observed eleven fetuses (three singletons and four sets of twins) in the womb using...

An updated edition of the definitive handbook on the physical basis for learning for professionals involved in education and child development, written by the respected author of acclaimed titles in the field. A comprehensive overview of the relationship...

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family',...

What is parental control? Is it positive or negative for children? What makes parents controlling with their children, even when they value supporting children's autonomy? Are there alternatives to control and how might we apply them in important domains...

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449906293Author Mic HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618918096Author Martin E. P. SeligmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

A delightful way to build children's self-esteem andself-confidence--from age three to twelve. The key ingredient in children's development, emotionally,socially, and intellectually, is a strong sense of their ownself-worth. The 300 games and activities...

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life course. Preeminent researcher Dan P. McAdams traces the development of three...