This title provides practitioners with a conceptual basis for understanding children's disruptive behaviour and its relationship to parenting behaviour. There is also a framework and materials that... (more)
Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. Grammar emerges as the speakers of the language create... (more)
In the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role (more)
The aim of this book is to encourage creativity in therapy with children who have changed families, for example through fostering or adoption. It contains a broad range of activities designed to help... (more)
Designed for .clinicians, therapists and other professionals who treat and support non-speaking children. (more)
This volume comprises three parts: on the road to survival; the evolution of the transference-countertransference; and finding a treatment plan. (more)
Previously entitled "Development and Handicap", this work reviews research on the development of blind children, deaf children, and children with spina bifida, cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome and... (more)
Linking practical experience with theory, this handbook examines and illustrates the integration of conceptualization and treatment of child and adolescent psychopathology. Conceptual models and... (more)
This volume aims to provide a developmentally sound framework for strengths-based family intervention in the first three years of life. The volume is filled with suggestions for building positive... (more)
An investigation into the causes of delinquency. It attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations,... (more)
This project is an attempt to understand what kind of environment today's adolescents need and what teachers, parents, and communities can do to address those needs. It examines how adolescents and... (more)
A study of posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents. It seeks to offer fresh perspectives on major topics in the field, including: techniques for evaluation; forensic aspects of... (more)
Infancy research is one of the hottest areas in developmental psychology, with contemporary advances in brain imaging techniques allowing psychologists to investigate what is happening in an infant's... (more)
The 3rd edition of this title has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide readers with a scholarly review of research in child psychopathology and development combined with practical... (more)
This important new book explores the relationship between personality and development from a life-course perspective. (more)
This volume offers a thorough investigation into the development of the cognitive processes that underpin judgements about mental states (often termed "theory of mind") and addresses specific issues... (more)
Examining children's learning and problem-solving behaviour, this book explores the ways in which interactions between children influence learning outcomes. It places the topic in a broad theoretical... (more)
Details the new, cross-disciplinary synthesis, as formulated by the Carolina Consortium on Human Development. (more)
This volume seeks to present a balanced view of teenage girls. It reviews and assesses research on girls from a variety of racial, ethnic and socio- economic backgrounds, searching for commonalities... (more)
This series provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with contemporary information on adolescents' problems. They are for use in assessment and... (more)
This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on adolescents' problems.... (more)
This series provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with contemporary information on adolescents' problems. It is for use in assessment and... (more)
This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on adolescents' problems.... (more)
Societies around the world are changing rapidly, but are adolescents being prepared to be adults in the emerging global, high-tech world? This volume is the report of an international study group... (more)