International Texts in Developmental Psychology
About the Book Series
The International Texts in Developmental Psychology series is designed to embrace the emergence of new areas and developments in the field from a global perspective, providing state-of-the-art, higher level introductions to major topic areas. Each volume is written by a specialist who combines empirical data and a synthesis of recent research to deliver cutting-edge science in a format accessible to students and researchers alike.
Global Impacts on Childhood Social Development: Building Resilience Amid Conflict, Environmental Degradation, and Climate Change
1st Edition
By Charles N. Oberg, Hopewell R. Hodges
December 19, 2025
This important book combines insights from disciplines as diverse as developmental psychopathology, pediatrics, and public policy to offer a detailed description of the impact of global crises such as armed conflict, climate change, and environmental degradation on the developing child. The book ...
Children's Literacy Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write
3rd Edition
By Catherine McBride
July 16, 2025
In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. This new edition highlights multiliteracy and multilingualism and broadly explores the science of reading. A timely and ...
Childhood Friendships and Peer Relations: Friends and Enemies
1st Edition
By Barry Schneider
January 30, 2025
In the second edition of his unique study of peer relationships in childhood, Dr Barry Schneider re-examines this fundamental aspect of childhood. Taking the work of Jacob Moreno as its starting point, the book provides an up-to-date and accessible understanding of how children develop social ...
Visual and Motor Cognition in Infants and Children: What Develops and What Stays the Same
1st Edition
By Christiane Lange-Küttner
March 21, 2024
This insightful book offers an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the development of visual abilities and motor skills in infants and children. Based on theory and cutting-edge up-to-date research about the development of non-verbal intelligence, it provides readers with essential ...
Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems
1st Edition
By Dale F. Hay
April 29, 2019
Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence, from delight, surprise and love to anger, distress and fear. Taking a ...
Developmental Transitions: Exploring stability and change through the lifespan
1st Edition
By Sarah Crafter, Rachel Maunder, Laura Soulsby
March 27, 2019
How can we make sense of change and stability through the lifespan of human development? What role does personal experience, our relationships with others, and historical and sociocultural contexts play in shaping these changes? This is the first book to offer an integrative overview of the range ...
Fathering in Cultural Contexts: Developmental and Clinical Issues
1st Edition
By Jaipaul Roopnarine, Elif Dede Yildirim
March 01, 2019
How do men think about fathering? How does this differ across different regions of the world? And what effect does this have on child development? Fathering in Cultural Contexts: Developmental and Clinical Issues answers these questions by considering a broad range of theoretical and ...
An Introduction to Mathematical Cognition
1st Edition
By Camilla Gilmore, Silke M. Göbel, Matthew Inglis
June 01, 2018
The last decade has seen a rapid growth in our understanding of the cognitive systems that underlie mathematical learning and performance, and an increased recognition of the importance of this topic. This book showcases international research on the most important cognitive issues that affect ...
Aging and Development: Social and Emotional Perspectives
2nd Edition
By Peter G. Coleman, Ann O'Hanlon
February 16, 2017
The psychology of aging usually focuses upon cognitive changes, with a particular focus on dementia and other forms of cognitive decline. But getting older is about more than simply changes to the brain and related health issues. Changes to our social and emotional lives are also hugely significant...
Children's Literacy Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write
2nd Edition
By Catherine McBride
December 10, 2015
In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading and writing development and impairment ...
The Child at School: Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition
1st Edition
By Peter Blatchford, Anthony D. Pellegrini, Ed Baines
July 15, 2015
What is the nature of children’s social life in school? How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school? This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides ...
Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives
2nd Edition
By Rosalyn H. Shute, Phillip Slee
May 14, 2015
Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives provides an engaging and perceptive overview of both well-established and recent theories in child and adolescent psychology. This unique summary of traditional scientific perspectives alongside critical post-modern thinking will provide readers...