A representative and authoritative account of human development from conception to adolescence. The book is organised chronologically and also thematically, and each chapter is written by internationally renowned experts who convey their knowledge with enthusiasm and skill.

This title provides practical ideas for linking knowledge to NVQ performance cirteria, and Diploma level assessments. It covers physical development with a focus on language and communication skills, and intellectual, social and emotional development including self-image.

Covering child development, this work explores problems of the only child, of stealing and lying, shyness, sex education in schools and the roots of aggression. It provides insight into child behaviour and parental attitudes.

There is an unprecedented demand for scientific evidence in child and adolescent mental health. Finding The Evidence is a resource that provides busy clinicians with rapid access to the best available secondary research evidence.

This highly accessible and practical guide is designed for anyone working with children, adolescents and their families. Covering the current thinking surrounding depression and attempted suicide, it offers valuable insight into this challenging area.

A guide to emotional and behavioural difficulties, a group of ill-defined disorders, which can cause children to become disruptive. The work examines the nature of EBDs and their potential causes, and discusses issues that can arise for professionals involved in their assessment.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of early years workers and students on courses leading to awards in children's care and education.

Miller believes that violence and crime in society have their roots in conventional child rearing and in education which can create a childhood prison. Miller describes how her discoveries can create freedom from this prison. This edition has been revised since her renunciation of psychoanalysis.

Adolescent Happiness: The Search Beyond Self makes an original contribution to the fields of counseling psychology, education, and psychotherapy by systematically examining happiness and commitment through the lens of the adolescent.

This distinguished annual contains outstanding original papers in psychoanalytic theory and practice. It brings together findings from all areas of analytic research and offers a rich mixture of clinical and theoretical material.

Contains interviews with more than 70 men and women in their 50s, who reveal what sex is like, how views of death and spirituality change, what it feels like to parent a parent, how to handle adult live-in sons and daughters, and what to expect at work.

A study in child psychology which presents a series of essays that examine how a child is initiated into shared cultural understanding through close relationships with parents and teachers, as well as siblings and peers.

This reader explores the development of children's social relationships, social competence and social understanding, from the beginning of schooling through to adolescence.

Is it possible that if we better understand how notions of war and conflict - and peace - are initially developed in children and adolescents we might be able to consciously influence these notions towards more peaceful orientations? This is one of the questions examined in this book.

A critical review of the literature on the differential psychosocial adjustment of children after a divorce. The book examines studies in ten predictor domains including gender, age, and custody, and addresses the effectiveness of parenting behaviour, offering correctives for future investigation.

The recognition of children's natural resilience as fundamental to their ability to cope with trauma is central to this book. It promotes the idea of healthy coping, and explores ways in which children and their families can be enabled to do this.

This work is the report of a longtitudinal study, conducted over a 10-year period, of the influence of family relationships, and genetic factors on competence and psychopathology in adolescent development. The sample study included 720 pairs of same-sex adolescent siblings and their parents.

Explores how the study of child development is inevitably bound up both in cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children, and in educational practices that arise from these ideas. There are additional contributions on social development in the classroom and playground.

Using a historical and social background, this book balances the differing theories of the causes of autism by the personal and social realities of the condition. The contrasting approaches of achieving the optimum level of communication with children are discussed to develop oral skills.