Essays in Developmental Psychology
About the Book Series
Essays in Developmental Psychology is designed to meet the need for rapid publication of brief volumes in developmental psychology.
The series defines developmental psychology in its broadest terms and covers such topics as social development, cognitive development, developmental neuropsychology and neuroscience, language development, learning difficulties, developmental psychopathology and applied issues.
Each volume in the series makes a conceptual contribution to the topic by reviewing and synthesizing the existing research literature, by advancing theory in the area, or by some combination of these missions.
Authors in this series provide an overview of their own highly successful research program, but they also include an assessment of current knowledge and identification of possible future trends in research.
Each book is a self-contained unit supplying the advanced reader with a coherent review of important research as well as its context, theoretical grounding and implications.
Understanding Children’s Worry: Clinical, Developmental and Cognitive Psychological Perspectives
1st Edition
By Charlotte Wilson
December 22, 2020
This accessible guide offers a concise introduction to the science behind worry in children, summarising research from across psychology to explore the role of worry in a range of circumstances, from everyday worries to those that can seriously impact children’s lives. Wilson draws on theories ...
Family Narratives and the Development of an Autobiographical Self: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
1st Edition
By Robyn Fivush
February 18, 2019
Stories are central to our world. We form our families, our communities, and our nations through stories. It is through stories of our everyday experiences that each of us constructs an autobiographical self, a narrative identity, that confers a sense of coherence and meaning to our individual ...
3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A Post-Piagetian Approach to Cognitive Development
1st Edition
By Olivier Houdé
February 04, 2019
3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A Post-Piagetian Approach to Cognitive Development puts forward Olivier Houdé’s 3-System theory of the cognitive brain, based on numerous post-Piagetian psychological and brain imaging data acquired from children and adults. This ground-breaking theory ...
Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood
1st Edition
By Olivera Petrovich
September 11, 2018
It is commonly assumed that young children only begin to think about God as a result of some educational or cultural influence, perhaps provided by their parents. Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood asks if there is anything about God that children can know ...
Why Siblings Matter: The Role of Brother and Sister Relationships in Development and Well-Being
1st Edition
By Naomi White, Claire Hughes
September 28, 2017
Many people grow up with at least one sibling. These siblings are often ‘fellow travellers’ through adversity or significant life events; they can act as a source of support for some children while a source of conflict for others. For these reasons, siblings are a potentially powerful influence on ...
The Adolescent Brain: Changes in learning, decision-making and social relations
1st Edition
By Eveline A. Crone
December 08, 2016
In recent years there have been tremendous advances in understanding how brain development underlies behavioural changes in adolescence. Based on the latest discoveries in the research field, Eveline A. Crone examines changes in learning, emotions, face processing and social relationships in ...
Learning About Objects in Infancy
1st Edition
By Amy Work Needham
March 25, 2016
How do young infants experience the world around them? How similar or different are infants’ experiences from adults’ experiences of similar situations? How do infants progress from relatively sparse knowledge and expectations early in life to much more elaborate knowledge and expectations just ...
Children's Drawings of the Human Figure
1st Edition
By Maureen V. Cox
June 23, 2015
The human figure is one of the earliest topics drawn by the young child and remains popular throughout childhood and into adolescence. When it first emerges, however, the human figure in the child's drawing is very bizarre: it appears to have no torso and its arms, if indeed it has any, are ...
Knowing Children: Experiments in Conversation and Cognition
1st Edition
By Michael Siegal
June 23, 2015
It has often been maintained that young children's knowledge is limited to perceptual appearances. In this "preoperational" stage of development, there are profound conceptual limitations in that they have little understanding of numerical and causal relations and are incapable of insight into the ...
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Meins
June 23, 2015
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book thus constitutes an ambitious attempt to build bridges between the domains of ...
The Foundation of Literacy: The Child's Acquisition of the Alphabetic Principle
1st Edition
By Brian Byrne
June 23, 2015
This monograph brings together important research that the author and his colleagues at the University of New England have been conducting into the early stages of reading development, and makes a valuable contribution to the debate about literacy education. It should appeal to a broad audience ...
The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action: From Infancy to Adulthood
1st Edition
By Peter Anthony White
June 23, 2015
This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood. There are two distinct but related ways in which people understand things as happening, denoted by the terms "causation" and "action". This ...