Explorations in Developmental Psychology
About the Book Series
The Explorations in Developmental Psychology series draws together research, theory and practice from the field of developmental psychology, providing a thorough exploration of the topic and implications for future practice and research.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand
Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia
COVID-19, the Great Recession and Young Adult Identity Development: Shock-Sensitive Dynamic Ecological Systems Theory
1st Edition
By Bronwyn Nichols Lodato
June 26, 2025
This book offers a paradigm shift in the framing of identity development by advancing a new, shock-sensitive framework for diverse young adult identity development after high school. The author builds on the critical theoretical contributions of Urie Bronfenbrenner and Margaret Beale Spencer that ...
Researching Child-Dog Relationships and Narratives in the Classroom: Rhythms of Posthuman Childhoods
1st Edition
By Donna Carlyle
May 27, 2025
This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and well-being by examining ‘animal-assisted’ education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions. Mapping the lives of children in a ...
Child Development Mediated by Trauma: The Dark Side of International Adoption
1st Edition
By Boris Gindis
December 18, 2020
Drawing on clinical data obtained through the study of children adopted from overseas orphanages, the author of this cutting-edge text applies the Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) conceptual framework to the analysis of psychological, educational and mental health impact of the early childhood ...
Children's books, brain development, and language acquisition
1st Edition
By Ralf Thiede
June 30, 2020
This book correlates English-speaking children’s brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes from children’s books. Drawing from the most current research on the developing brain, the author demonstrates how language acquisition is exclusively interactive, and...
Teachers, Learners, Modes of Practice: Theory and Methodology for Identifying Knowledge Development
1st Edition
By David Dirlam
June 04, 2019
Summarizing a half century of work on the problem of identifying units of analysis for complex human behaviour, this book introduces modes of practice as a unit of analysis for the science and design of human activities, and shows how to record them and create field guides at scales from individual...
Development from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A dynamic systemic approach to transitions and transformations
1st Edition
By Marion Kloep, Leo Hendry, Rachel Taylor, Ian Stuart-Hamilton
December 21, 2017
Traditionally, the subject of adolescent development has been explored using a stage based approach, often with an emphasis on the potential risks and problems of adolescence. Taking a different approach, in this book the authors draw upon a wealth of research to examine the period of development ...
Learning from Picturebooks: Perspectives from child development and literacy studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Jörg Meibauer, Kerstin Nachtigäller, Katharina J. Rohlfing
April 11, 2017
Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children’s literature. Being highly complex aesthetic products, their use is deeply embedded in specific situations of joint attention between a caregiver and a ...
Developmental Neuropsychology
1st Edition
By Janna Glozman
December 20, 2016
Developmental Neuropsychology draws upon the research of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky to present a comprehensive study of developmental neuropsychology from a Russian, and Western perspective. Janna Glozman offers a fresh and accessible analysis of Luria and Vygotsky’s collaboration, which ...
Indigenous Adolescent Development: Psychological, Social and Historical Contexts
1st Edition
By Les B. Whitbeck, Melissa Walls, Kelley Hartshorn
October 12, 2015
This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families. The first study of its kind, it calls attention to culturally specific risk factors that affect Indigenous (American Indian and Canadian First Nations) adolescent development ...