This comprehensive textbook provides an in-depth presentation of developmental psychology across a broad range of key issues which are at the forefront of current research. Written by an international team of experts, it gives an authoritative yet accessible account of the subject. It considers child development from infancy to adolescence, and adopts a topic based approach within a broadly chronological sequence. Chapters are grouped into five sections: Life Processes and Infancy; Cognitive and Representational Growth; Atypical Development; Interpersonal Processes; and Towards Adulthood. This organisation of chapters allows the book to be read in any order without missing essential groundwork, depending on the needs and emphasis of the course being taught.
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This text is highly recommended to anyone who wants their students to walk away from their developmental psychology course knowledgeable about the core issues in cognitive and social development and more confident about approaching the literature on developmental neuroscience...Discussion points throughout the chapters are well thought out and will be helpful to instructors who may not be experts in developmental psychology themselves.
Child Psychology and Psychiatry
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978-0-340-67682-0 (9780340676820)
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Part 1 - Life processes and infancy
Genetics and development
Developmental cognitive neuroscience: relating brain development to cognitive change
Knowledge of physical world in infancy
Communication and language
The development of attachment relationships: infancy and beyond
Part 2 - Cognitive and representational growth
Theories of cognitive development
The development of graphical representations
Intelligence
Reading, skill and dyslexia
Part 3 - Atypical development and development in special circumstances
Growing and learning with sensory impairments
Growing and learning with cognitive impairments
Autism
Part 4 - Interpersonal processes: others and their influence
Psychoanalytic views about development
Emotional development
Social and Moral development
Families and their role in children's lives and development
Bullying in school children
The uses and significance of electronic media during development
Part 5 - Towards adulthood
Adolescence in Europe - an important life phase?
Challenges, risks and coping in adolescence
Personal growth and racialised identities.
