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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...

First published in 1999. Shows how Melanie Klien's studies of sexuality aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the superego and early stages of the Oedipus complex...

Test Yourself: Developmental Psychology provides essential learning and practice through assessment for your psychology students. It enables year 1 and 2 undergraduates to assess their confidence and competence and prepare for the types of questions...

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...

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...

Are we born selfish or primed to help others?Does stress make people more antisocial?Can we ever be genuinely altruistic?This book explores some of the dilemmas at the heart of being human. Integrating cutting edge studies with in-depth clinical...

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...

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...

Every 20 minutes a child is diagnosed with a disease on the autism spectrum. While the medical establishment treats autism as a psychiatric condition and prescribes behaviorally based therapies, Dr. Julie A. Buckley argues that it is a physiological...

Childhood has long been recognized as a developmental process. This book examines parenting through a similar lens, offering mental health providers a mentalizing framework for working with parents at all stages of parental development. Parenting is a...

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...

This book analyses the cultural, neurobiological and psychological aspects of early childhood and their impact on later morality and decision making. Offering an optimistic view of how we can create a society that fosters human success and caring, it...

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',...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) begins in early childhood and is characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. As many as half of children with ASD between the ages of 3 and 8 also...

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...

This book discusses, explains and illustrates some of the potential of psychology beyond the strait-jacket that has been imposed upon it by its Western intellectual and empirical roots. It provides a positive model for psychological theory, research and...

Highly practical and accessible, this book shows how to synthesize complex information about child and adolescent mental health problems into clinically useful, dynamic case formulations. Strategies and tools are provided for analyzing the biological,...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952043031Author Al CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Carlisle Legacy Books, LLCPublisher Carlisle Legacy Books, LLCWeight(grams)...

In this classic work on early childhood development, Karl Koenig explores the first three years of a child's life by examining the three major achievements that occur during this stage: learning to walk, speak and think. These are three core faculties...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061046Author Stacey PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771357Author Diane AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Educational psychology applies psychological theories, ideas and methods to education and to understandings of teaching and learning, both in the classroom and beyond. As last few months have shown, psychology can have a huge impact both on and in...

G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children-and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large. Draws on behavioral genetic research from around the...

The EPDF and EPUB are available open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This publication was supported by the University of Essex's open access fund. How do young people transitioning from care plan their future lives? Planning is usually thought of as...

An invaluable tool to get boys talkingTalking costs nothing but it can change your life for the betterGrowing up is hard work! You're expected to ace your exams, be responsible, keep up a hectic social life both online and IRL, make big decisions about...

During the past decade a diverse group of disciplines have simultaneously intensified their attention upon the scientific study of emotion. This proliferation of research on affective phenomena has been paralleled by an acceleration of investigations of...

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development. This integration cements understanding since the same processes are involved. Knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210873Author Paula Polk LillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826107978Author Linda SilvermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 456g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614273660Author Jean Jean PiagetFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Drawn from a brilliant array of voices primarily from psychology, but also from other social sciences and humanities, this unique reader of creative and intellectually provocative essays investigates the social construction of gender. For the past...

This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers, and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools.The book begins by looking at children's emotional life during the primary...