Child and developmental psychology Books

Book SynopsisThis is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges this poses in order that they can grow and develop in healthy directions. It provides a systemic framework to describe working with children and adults who are or have been in care or adopted, as well as working with their adoptive parents and carers, highlighting their own narratives and those of professionals working with them. The authors have tried to make space for multiple voices to speak and describe aspects of the care system and life beyond. There are contributions from those who have been brought up away from their biological parents, their adoptive parents and foster or kinship carers. There are also contributions from researchers and professionals with expertise in working with children in substitute care, who describe their theoretical and clinical approaches, privileging the voices of those with whom they work.This book seeks to highlight the possibilities and opportunities that can be offered and taken by people who were not able to grow up in their biological families. Combining a mixture of insider knowledge, realism, creativity and hope, it is essential reading for all working and living in this field.Trade Review'This book will prove a rich resource for practitioners and policy makers alike. There are accounts by adopters, carers, children, and their therapists of the complex work involved in supporting those who are entrusted with raising children from backgrounds of adversity. The book gives voice to those who rarely have the opportunity to articulate their experience, and celebrates the dedication and creativity of a range of professionals who are tasked with providing support for these children and families at different stages of their lives.'--Jeanne Kaniuk, OBE, Managing Director, Adoption Services, Coram'The thoughtful awareness of doing what is needed in each unique circumstance makes this book a positive and enlightening contribution to the fields of social care and adoption. It thrives on compassionate, well-informed practice wisdom that inspires the reader to find enrichment in this challenging area of work. This is a highly commendable compilation that should be read by all those involved in providing effective services to those who are or have been in social care.'--Jim Wilson, systemic psychotherapist, author, consultant, and trainer'This is a unique collection of perspectives by those with the deepest understanding of this multi-faceted yet urgent problem. The stories are not pretty, but the determination of all the protagonists to put right what was so wrong, to confront inconceivably cruel experiences and find imaginative and uplifting solutions, gives one courage to carry on with this work. This is a landmark contribution creating a platform of hard-won insight that, if conscientiously read, should make all those who are part of the process of foster care and adoption better at what they do.'--Professor Peter Fonagy, OBE, from the Foreword

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Book SynopsisThis book includes contributions from a wide range of interested observers and practitioners in the field of children in care and adoption, focusing on a core aspect of their emotional well-being and mental health. It focuses in particular on psychoanalytic, systemic and attachment theory approaches to the question of 'belonging': can these children allow themselves to belong to their new families, and also can these new families allow themselves to belong to these children? Highly innovative clinical work with these children in various settings is discussed alongside chapters that provide thought-provoking commentaries from practitioners surveying the often extremely disturbing societal and systemic landscape for the emotional lives of these children.The book is written to be accessible to clinicians, practitioners, researchers, policy advisors and students of all disciplines who have an interest in or brief to work with fostered and adopted children. It is hoped that the book will be used for teaching purposes on courses qualifying professionals across the child development, mental health and social care spectrum.Trade Review'All children need to know that they belong. In this extraordinarily rich collection of chapters, expert authors from a wide range of professions and theoretical persuasions explore this great and often unmet need amongst the most troubled children and young people in society, and reflect on how to respond in helpful and healing ways. This book will help to establish the whole theme of belonging as an area of focus and concern both in professional practice and in academic discourse.'- Adrian Ward, author of Leadership in Residential Child Care and formerly consultant social worker at the Tavistock Clinic 'Written by a multidisciplinary group of professionals, this book should become a basic text as it is essential reading for all parents, social workers, and therapists working with a child experiencing attachment, trauma, separation, and loss. The book shows how a child and his or her caregivers' primitive protections against anxiety prohibit intimacy and dependency, and how understanding the projected feelings evoked in the adults and the child can lead to a sense of belonging to one another and avoid ruptured relationships.'- Jeanne Magagna, former Head of Psychotherapy Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children'This is a well-timed contribution to the field of social care and psychotherapy. Towards Belonging is full of practical examples, useful concepts, and philosophical riches located within real practice settings that are cognisant of, and affected by, state and social policy contexts. The book is a rallying call for the recognition of the complexity of practice at a time when financial cuts create restrictive practices that pervade mental health and social care services. What impresses in each contribution is the author's commitment to engage with head and heart in finding ways to help children to belong.'- Jim Wilson, consultant systemic family therapist and author of Child-Focused Practice: A Collaborative Systemic Approach and The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and FamiliesTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Towards belonging: conceptual definitions -- Some reflections on “towards belonging” for children in care: guided journey or “wandering lost”? -- Towards belonging: the role of a residential setting -- Establishing a sense of belonging for looked after children: the journey from fear and shame to love and belonging -- From owning to belonging -- Belonging inside: a child in search of herself -- The smell of belonging -- Fostering relationships for looked after children -- Existential yearning: a family systemic perspective on belonging -- Endpiece

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Book SynopsisThe DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger's, under the heading "autism spectrum disorder." This book argues that this lumping together is unhelpful for clinicians. Instead, finer diagnostic distinctions are helpful to clinicians who treat children with Asperger's.This book spells out in detail the psychodynamics the author has repeatedly uncovered in Asperger's children, adolescents, and adults, and explores the central factors in the aetiology of Asperger's Disorder. There is a section suggesting how Asperger's can be adequately diagnosed from "the outside" (using external descriptive features) and more importantly from "the inside" (based on internal psychodynamic processes). Finally, there is a section outlining psychodynamic treatment approaches to Asperger's children, based on their psychodynamics and on which type of Asperger's is present.The book includes numerous case illustrations to help the reader appreciate the central psychodynamics that are regularly observed in Asperger's children, namely splitting of the self into victim and bully aspects, and projective identification into remote objects. On the basis of their psychodynamics, and especially which aspect of their split self is predominant, three different types of Asperger's are outlined which require different treatment approaches.Trade Review'This enlightening book offers the reader valuable understanding of children, adolescents, and young adults who suffer from Asperger's Disorder. Robin Holloway demonstrates his psychoanalytic psychotherapy skills through extensive clinical material showing how all of his child and adolescent patients share a deep need for insightful and sensitive help. He makes a convincing argument that Asperger's Disorder should remain a valid diagnosis and provides data to demonstrate its usefulness. Every clinician who works with children, adolescents, and adults who suffer from Asperger's Disorder should read this comprehensive volume that begins with the history of Asperger's and ends with help in treating those with Asperger's. This remarkable book is a much needed and welcome addition to the literature.'- Ann G. Smolen, PhD, author of Mothering Without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children, and Six Children: The Spectrum of Child Psychopathology and its Treatment'Dr Holloway has written an extremely well researched and informative book on Asperger's children. It is very clearly written and full of wonderful clinical illustrations of the author's sensitive and creative work with these young people. He thoroughly covers a wide range of topics including diagnosis, psychodynamics and the difficulties the psychotherapist encounters with these patients. His discussion about the relative factors of neurological, traumatic and object relational features of Asperger's syndrome should be extremely helpful to the practicing clinician, whether one is new or experienced in therapeutic work with these individuals.'- Lawrence J. Brown, PhD, Supervising Child Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; author of Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian Perspectives'This is a very important book. It addresses all of the big issues concerning the treatment, diagnosis and aetiology of these children's condition, and it does so with great and encyclopaedic scholarship, profundity, and clinical wisdom. It is brilliant, but it is also a fascinating read.'- Anne Alvarez, PhD, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist; retired co-chair, Autism Service, Tavistock Clinic, London'The author presents, in a vivid way, his practice with Asperger's children, adolescents and adults. He raises original hypotheses that greatly contribute to broadening and deepening our observations and reflections on children with this condition.'- Nilde Franch, training and supervising analyst of the Brazilian PsychoanalyticalSociety of Sao Paulo, and member of the IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroduction , The Psychodynamics of Asperger's Children , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Peter and Joe, age nine , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Matt, age twelve , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Thomas, age twelve , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Thanos, age fourteen , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Dan, age seventeen , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Alan, age nineteen , Some clinical dialogues with Asperger's patients—Anthony, age thirty-one , The psychodynamics of Asperger's children , The anxieties and defences of Asperger's children , Defences in Asperger's children continued—should we call it splitting or dissociation? , Theorising about the Aetiology of Asperger's , Towards an understanding of the aetiology of Asperger's disorder , The sensory vulnerability of Asperger's children , The Diagnosis of Asperger's Children , The differential diagnosis of Asperger's children , Treatment Approaches to Asperger's Children , Thoughts about the treatment of Asperger's children , Treatment of Asperger's children—the Toronto experiment , Packing up, moving out, and bidding farewell

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Child as Thinker has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide an informed and accessible overview of the varied and extensive literature on children's cognition. Both theory and research data are critically examined and educational implications are discussed.After a brief discussion of the nature and subject of cognition, Sara Meadows reviews children's thinking in detail. She discusses the ways children remember and organise information in general, the acquisition of skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic, and the development of more complex reasoning as children grow to maturity. As well as studies that typically describe a generalised child, the book also reviews some of the main areas relevant to individual differences in normal cognitive development, and critically examines three major models of cognitive development. In outlining the work of Piaget, information-processing accounts and neo-Vygotskian theories, she also evaluates their different explanations of cognitive development and their implications for education. Finally, the book examines biological and social factors that may be involved in normal and suboptimal cognitive development. Sara Meadows provides an important review of the crucial issues involved in understanding cognitive development and of the new data and models that have emerged in the last few years. This book brings together areas and approaches that have hitherto been independent, and examines their strengths and weaknesses. The Child as Thinker is essential reading for all students of cognitive development.Trade Review"This is one of the best books I have read in this field for a long time." - Julian Elliott, University of Sunderland, UK"I think that this is an excellent book. It covers a wide range of topics and research and presents them all in a coherent, attractive and highly readable way. It fills a need for an easy-to-read but intellectually respectable account of cognitive development." - Peter Bryant FRS, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, UK"The author’s enthusiasm and drive to understand cognitive development results in a work which seeks to relate and integrate research in the (sometimes) disparate research areas within the field. Her approach offers the student an insight into the relationships between the different issues and themes and, as such, makes a valuable contribution to the academic bookshelf. Throughout the book, new ideas have been seamlessly included alongside material from the original edition." - Steve Croker, University of Derby, UK"This is one of the best books I have read in this field for a long time." - Julian Elliott, Durham University, UK"I think that this is an excellent book. It covers a wide range of topics and research and presents them all in a coherent, attractive and highly readable way. It fills a need for an easy-to-read but intellectually respectable account of cognitive development." - Peter Bryant FRS, Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, UK"The author’s enthusiasm and drive to understand cognitive development results in a work which seeks to relate and integrate research in the (sometimes) disparate research areas within the field. Her approach offers the student an insight into the relationships between the different issues and themes and, as such, makes a valuable contribution to the academic bookshelf. Throughout the book, new ideas have been seamlessly included alongside material from the original edition." - Steve Croker, University of Derby, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction. Descriptive Studies of Children’s Cognitive Skills and Knowledge. Individual Differences in Cognitive Development. Models of Cognition in Childhood: Metaphors, Achievements and Problems. Causes of Change and Variation in Cognitive Development. Teaching Thinking. Questions, Problems – and Possibilities.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory. More than this however, the book pays tribute to the work of Lars-Göran Nilsson and his many contributions to the psychology of human memory.The book is divided into three subsections: General Issues in Human Memory, Memory and Aging, and Memory and the Brain. These sections represent the three cornerstones in Lars-Göran's scientific career and comprise contributions from senior collaborators, colleagues and former students.Areas of discussion include: long-term and working memory: how do they interact? an epidemiological approach to cognitive health in aging the cognitive neuroscience of signed language Covering a broad range of topics, Memory, Aging and the Brain will be of great interest to all those involved in the study and research of human memory.Trade Review"Memory, Aging and the Brain presents well-documented research that is a valuable contribution to science. The publication will be of greatest interest to those involved in the research of human memory." - Christen Smith, Gallaudet University, USA, in Activities, Adaptation & Aging"This text has assembled some of the most accomplished scientists in the neurosciences and the result is a thorough, well written, authoritative text on memory in the aging brain. The chapters are a pleasure to read and will undoubtedly prove to be a valuable contribution to science." - Robert J. Spencer, Psychology Service, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System & Linas A. Bieliauskas, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan. "Memory, Aging and the Brain presents well-documented research that is a valuable contribution to science. The publication will be of greatest interest to those involved in the research of human memory." - Christen Smith, Gallaudet University, USA, in Activities, Adaptation & Aging"This text has assembled some of the most accomplished scientists in the neurosciences and the result is a thorough, well written, authoritative text on memory in the aging brain. The chapters are a pleasure to read and will undoubtedly prove to be a valuable contribution to science." - Robert J. Spencer, Psychology Service, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System & Linas A. Bieliauskas, Department of Psychiatry, University of MichiganTable of ContentsPart 1. Introduction. Bäckman, Nyberg, Introduction. Part 2. Memory. Baddeley, Long-term and Working Memory: How Do They Interact? Roediger III, Zaromb, Memory for Actions: How Different? Magnussen, Greenlee, Baumann, Endestad, Visual Perceptual Memory. Mäntylä, Remembering In Time: Cognitive Control of Time Keeping. Tulving, How Do Brains Detect Novelty? Part 3. Aging. Craik, Bialystok, Bilingualism and Aging: Costs and Benefits. Herlitz, Lovén, Thilers, Rehnman, Sex Differences in Episodic Memory: The Where but Not the Why. Dixon, An Epidemiological Approach to Cognitive Health in Aging. Lövdén, Decline-Induced Plastic Changes of Brain and Behavior in Aging. Bäckman, Nyberg, Dopamine, Cognition, and Human Aging: New Evidence and Ideas. Part 4. The Brain. Öhman, Post-Traumatic Fear Memories: Analyzing a Case-Study of a Sexual Assault. Brand, Markowitsch, Environmental Influences on Autobiographical Memory: The Mnestic Block Syndrome. Rönnberg, Rudner, Foo, The Cognitive Neuroscience of Signed Language: Applications to a Working Memory System for Sign and Speech. Näätänen, Kreegipuu1, The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) as an Index of Different Forms of Memory in Audition. Lind, Nyberg, Imaging Genomics: Brain Alterations Associated with the APOE Genotype.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the structure and development of conscience, a subject that has been dominant in developmental psychology since the 18th century. International experts in the field contribute to this broad overview of the relevant research on the development of moral emotions and on the Kohlbergian-originated cognitive aspects of moral development.The first section of the book focuses on the cultural conditions that create the context for the development of conscience, such as moral philosophy, religion, and media violence. Building on the theory and research on emotion, other chapters cover issues including the development of shame, self regulation and moral conduct, social cognition, and models of guilt. The book also covers moral reasoning, moral identity, moral atmosphere, moral behavior, and discusses subjects such as lying, how to measure moral development, the impact of parenting, the dysfunctions of conscience evident in narcissism, psychopathy, issues surrounding gender, and aggression. The Development and Structure of Conscience will be ideal reading for researchers and students of developmental and educational psychology.Trade Review"Any prospective student of conscience will need this comprehensive and cutting-edge volume. Its important contributions address all facets of this complex phenomenon." – John C Gibbs, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University. "Any prospective student of conscience will need this comprehensive and cutting-edge volume. Its important contributions address all facets of this complex phenomenon." – John C Gibbs, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University USA Table of ContentsW. Koops, D. Brugman, T.J. Ferguson, A.F. Sanders, Preface. W. Koops, D. Brugman, T.J. Ferguson, The Development of Conscience: Concepts, Theoretical and Empirical Approaches: An Introduction. Part 1. Theoretical and Cultural Historical Notions on Conscience. B. Musschenga, Moral Violations and the Ordinary Moral Person. J.M. Day, Conscience: Does Religion Matter? Empirical Studies of Religious Elements in Pro-Social Behaviour, Prejudice, Empathy Development and Moral Decision-Making. T.J. Ferguson, Like Snowflakes and Memories: Affective, Cognitive and Conative Facets of Conscience in the Middle and Later Childhood. Part 2. Moral Reasoning. D. Brugman, Moral Reasoning Competence and the Moral Judgement-Action Discrepancy in Young Adolescents. M.S. de Wolff, D. Brugman, Moral Atmosphere and Moral Behaviour: A Study into the Role of Adolescents’ Perception of Moral Atmosphere for Antisocial Behaviour. J. Boom, Measuring Moral Development: Stages as Markers Along a Latent Developmental Dimension. Part 3. Social Emotions. T.J. Ferguson, H.L. Eyre, Reconciling Interpersonal Versus Responsibility Based Models of Guilt. M. Meerum Terwogt, T. Olthof, C. Rieffe, Children’s Feelings and Evaluations about Altruistic and Self-Serving Lies. S. Thomaes, H. Stegge, T. Olthof, Does Shame Bring Out the Worst in Narcissists? On Moral Emotions and Immoral Behaviours. B.J. Bushman, J. Chandler, L.R. Huesmann, Do Violent Media Numb our Consciences? M. Keller, A. Brandt, G. Sigurdardottir, "Happy" and "Unhappy" Victimizers: The Development of Moral Emotions from Childhood to Adolescence. Part 4. Conscience and Antisocial Behaviour. A. Karreman, C. van Tuijl, M.A.G. van Aken, M. Dekovic, Young Children’s Self-Regulation and the Development of Moral Conduct. S.M. Côté, Sex differences in Types of Aggressive Behaviours: Do Women Have a Higher Level of Conscience than Men? J.E. Lochman, Social Cognition and Self-Regulation: Change in Outcome Expectations and Aggressive Behaviour Over Time. T. Olthof, Conscience in the Classroom: Early Adolescents’ Moral Emotions, Moral Judgments and Moral Identity as Predictors of Their Interpersonal Behaviour.

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Book SynopsisWhat happens to homeless and runaway adolescents when they become adults? This is the first study that follows homeless youth into young adulthood and reviews the mental health consequences of runaway episodes and street life. The adolescents were interviewed every three months for three years from their mid teens to their early twenties. The study documents the psychological consequences associated with becoming adults when missing the critical developmental tasks of adolescence. The authors report high levels of psychological problems associated with victimization prior to and after running away. These victimization experiences shape the behaviors of these young people, affecting their relationships with others and their chances of conventional adjustment. Across time, the more successful their adaptation to street life and the street economy, the more barriers to conventional adult life emerge. The distress, including self-mutilation and suicidal behaviors, among this population is examined, as well as the impact street life has on future relationships, education, and employment. Nutritional and health problems are also explored, along with the social and economic impact of this population on society. As such, the book provides insight about why the current prevention and treatment programs are failing in an effort to help policy makers modify approaches to adolescent runaways.Intended as a supplementary text for undergraduate and/or graduate courses on homelessness, high risk youth, social deviance, adolescence and/or emerging adulthood taught in departments of psychology, human development, sociology, social work, and public health, this compelling book will also appeal to anyone who works with homeless adolescents.Trade Review"The chapters are well written and well organized. Whitbeck’s work is thorough and provides a clear picture of developmental and mental health issues among homeless teens. ... I highly recommend this volume to those dedicated to working with homeless teens." – Stephanie L. Brook in PsycCRITIQUES"Based on three monthly interviews over three years, the book expertly charts the psychological developments of its subjects and the experiences which shaped their behaviour. It shows, too, how their gradual habituation to street life creates a barrier to conventional adult life." – Young Minds Magazine"One area lacking in the literature was the use of longitudinal studies with homeless youths. Whitbeck's book ... fills this gap in the literature. ... Whitbeck’s work is thorough and provides a clear picture of developmental and mental health issues among homeless teens. ... I highly recommend this volume to those dedicated to working with homeless teens." – Stephanie L. Brooke in PsycCRITIQUES"A ground-breaking longitudinal study... students would find it fascinating... it would be adopted in sociology, social work, and psychology courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. It would also be valuable to researchers, agency workers and policy experts... an important part of any scholar's knowledge on adolescence and emerging adulthood." – Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Clark University, USA "The results are compelling, and, at times, very surprising...The data ... underscores ... the extent of mental health and substance abuse problems among homeless and runaway adolescents [and] the ... long-term consequences... It is ... likely to become a text for courses on the homeless...It should be of much interest to researchers ... human service workers, mental health providers, law enforcement, juvenile justice personnel, policy makers and legislators." – Luis A. Vargas, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, UK "The design of the study ... is simply unique...I am deeply impressed with the breadth of coverage ...This title may be used... at both the (upper) undergraduate and graduate level ...in courses on sociology, social work, and psychology." – Luc Goossens, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Table of ContentsPart 1. Emerging Adulthood among Runaway and Homeless Youth. 1. "No One Knows What Happens to These Kids": Interrupted Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood. 2. The Midwest Longitudinal Study of Homeless and Runaway Adolescents. Part 2. Mental Health and Emerging Adulthood among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents. 3. From Conduct Disorder to Antisocial Personality Disorder: Disruptive Behaviors from Adolescence to Early Adulthood. 4. Adolescent Major Depressive Episodes and Emerging Adulthood. 5. Traumatic Histories and Adult Transitions. 6. Substance Abuse Patterns Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents Across Time. 7. Dissociative Symptoms: Prevalence, Correlates, and Association with Other Mental Disorders and Problem Behaviors. Part 3. Unintentional and Intentional Injuries from Adolescence to Early Adulthood. 8. Victimization and Re-victimization among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents. 9. Self-mutilating Behaviors from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. 10. Suicide Ideation and Attempts. 11. Health and Services Utilization. Part 4. Adult Roles: Social Networks, Intimate Relationships, Economic Adjustment, and Emerging Adulthood. 12. Social Networks: Friends and Families at Home and on the Streets. 13. Sexuality, Romantic Relationships, and Pregnancy. 14. Survival Strategies, Hunger, Education, and Housing. Part 5. Lost Opportunities – New Opportunities. 15. Continuities of Mental Disorders and Problem Behaviors. 16. "No One Knows What Happens to These Kids": From Runaways to Young Adults.

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Book SynopsisThe intellectual development of human beings from birth to adulthood is a fascinating phenomenon. Understanding the constraints that limit children’s intelligence, as well as discovering methods to improve it, has always been a challenging undertaking for developmental psychologists. This book presents a unique attempt to address these issues by establishing a dialogue between neo-Piagetian theorists and researchers specialized in typical and atypical working memory development.The book integrates recent advances in studies of working memory development with theories proposed by the most prominent neo-Piagetian researchers who have emphasized the role of cognitive resources and working memory capacity in the development of thinking and reasoning. In the opening section, the main proponents of this tradition develop their theories of cognitive development in terms of available mental attention, processing efficiency and speed, inhibition and relational complexity. The second part of the book addresses the mechanisms that underpin the increase in working memory capacity and the respective roles of processing efficiency, storage capacity, and the use of reactivation processes of memory traces such as rehearsal. Finally, the central role played by working memory in atypical development and learning difficulties is examined.This book provides psychologists, students and researchers who are interested in child development with an integrated and up-to-date series of chapters written by prominent specialists in the areas of working memory, attention, and cognitive development. Trade Review"Cognitive Development and Working Memory is a highly integrative review of research on working memory development by leading members in the field of child intellectual development. The range of work showcased in this volume makes it an indispensible introduction for advanced graduate students and an excellent reference for more advanced theorists and experimenters in the field. They will find this book an incomparable, cuttingedge reference for the major stakes and prospects in child memory development, Piagetian and cognitivist." - Jason T. Ramsay, in PsycCRITIQUES"This book brings together a selected group of leading researchers to discuss a currently hot topic. The authors represent different theoretical approaches and research groups, and each chapter contributes in its unique way, using theoretical modelling and experimental and individual-difference studies, to a debate that has become highly relevant in the scientific community. The book is excellent." - Sergio Morra, Unit of Psychology, University of Genoa, Italy"Cognitive Development and Working Memory is a highly integrative review of research on working memory development by leading members in the field of child intellectual development. The range of work showcased in this volume makes it an indispensible introduction for advanced graduate students and an excellent reference for more advanced theorists and experimenters in the field. They will find this book an incomparable, cuttingedge reference for the major stakes and prospects in child memory development, Piagetian and cognitivist." - Jason T. Ramsay, in PsycCRITIQUES"This book brings together a selected group of leading researchers to discuss a currently hot topic. The authors represent different theoretical approaches and research groups, and each chapter contributes in its unique way, using theoretical modelling and experimental and individual-difference studies, to a debate that has become highly relevant in the scientific community. The book is excellent." - Sergio Morra, Unit of Psychology, University of Genoa, ItalyTable of ContentsP.Barrouillet, V.Gaillard, Introduction: From Neo-Piagetian Theories to Working memory Development Studies Part 1. Neo Piagetian Theories to Working Memory Development Studies J. Pascual-Leone, J. Johnson, A Developmental Theory of Mental Attention: Its Application to Measurement and Task Analysis G. Andrews, G.S.Halford, Recent Advances in Relational Complexity Theory and Its Application to Cognitive Development A. Demetriou, A. Mouyi, Processing Efficiency, Representational Capacity, and Reasoning: Modelling Their Dynamic Interactions A. De Ribaupierre, D. Fagot, T. Lecerf, Working Memory Capacity and its Role in Cognitive Development: Are Age Differences Driven by the Same Processes Across the Lifespan? Part 2. Underlying Processes of Working Memory Development N.Cowan, C.C.Morey, A.M. AuBuchon, C.E. Zwilling, A.L.Gilchrist, J. Scott Saults, New Insights Into An Old Problem: Distinguishing Storage From Processing in the Development of Working Memory V. Camos, P. Barrouillet, Factors of Working Memory Development: The Time-Based Resource-Sharing Approach C. Jarrold, H. Tam, Rehearsal and the Development of Working Memory Part 3. Working Memory in Typical and Atypical Development H.L. Swanson, The Influence of Working Memory Growth on Reading and Math Performance in Children With Math And/ Or Reading Disabilities T. Packiam Alloway, L. Archibald, Working Memory in Development: Links with Learning Between Typical and Atypical Populations

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of this volume is the recognition that children’s engagement with play and story are intrinsically and intricately linked. The contributing authors share a passionate interest in the development and well-being of children, in particular through their use of imagination and adaptation of the everyday into play and stories. Following these principles, the volume explores the connections between play, story, and pretense with regard to many cultural and contextual factors that influence the way these elements vary in children’s lives. In a departure from earlier collections on play and story, the authors take a particular focus on normative as compared with atypical development. This collection begins with an approach to understanding the developmental relationship between play and story, which recognizes their similarities while acknowledging their differences. Much of the collection addresses pretend play and story in children with autism spectrum disorder, an understudied but important group for consideration, as these dimensions of their lives and development have often been considered problematic. The volume also includes sections on play and story in classroom settings and play and story across cultures, including non-English-speaking environments such as Israel, Romania, China, and Mexico. It concludes with a discussion of how play differs across sociocultural and economic contexts, making a unifying claim for the importance of play in children’s lives but also calling for an understanding of what play means to very different groups of children.Trade Review'This richly eclectic work draws on various perspectives to examine the dynamic interplay between pretend play and narrative and the complex issues that children on the autism spectrum encounter in these areas. The themes and viewpoints explored not only deepen our theoretical understanding, but also highlight new avenues for research and practice within diverse sociocultural contexts and an ever-changing, techno-oriented world.' – Pamela Wolfberg, Ph.D., Professor, San Francisco State University and founding director, Autism Institute on Peer Socialization and Play, www.autisminstitute.com'An excellent text grounded in robust research and full of rich and varied perspectives on children’s pretend play and story. I strongly recommend it to all those who are interested to know more about the unique and powerful role of pretense in human development.' – Sue Rogers, Ph.D., Professor, University College LondonTable of Contents1. Young Children’s Pretend Play and Storytelling as Modes of Narrative Activity: From Complementarity to Cross-Fertilization? Ageliki Nicolopoulou Part 1: Pretence and Storytelling in Autism Spectrum Disorder 2. Pretend Play in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of the Literature Mahwish Chaudry and Cheryl Dissanayake 3. Play, Narrative, and Children With Autism Karen Stagnitti 4. Developing Reciprocity With Technology and Storytelling: The Design of an Authorable Virtual Peer for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Andrea Tartaro and Justine Cassell 5. Social Robots as Storytellers: Can A Social Robot Encourage Children With ASD To Ask Questions During Playtime? Ramona Simut, Cristina Costescu, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Daniel David and Bram Vanderborght 6. The Intersection of Pretense and Storytelling In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Susan Douglas and Lesley Stirling 7. Dad! You Have to be…: Autism, Narrative And Family Neil Maclean Part 2: Pretence and Storytelling in the Classroom 8. The Wrongheaded Exclusion of Imaginative Storytelling from Kindergarten Writing Instruction Patricia M. Cooper 9. The Development of Subteacher Discourse during Pretend Play in the Wake of Reading A Story Esther Vardi-Rath, Teresa Lewin, Zehava Cohen, Hadassah Aillenberg and Tamar Eylon 10. The Natural World as Content for Interconnection and Divergence of Pretence and Storytelling in Children’s Play Kumara Ward Part 3: Pretence and Storytelling in Cross-Cultural Development 11. Using Narratives and Drawings to Assess Creativity in Preschool Age Children Candice M. Mottweiler 12. A Cultural-Historical Reading of Imagination and Creativity in Young Children’s Shared Narrative Creations across Cultural Contexts Sue March, Liang Li and Gloria Quiñones 13. Returning To Play: The Critical Location of Play in Children’s Sociocultural Lives Artin Göncü and Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur

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Book SynopsisThe study of bilingualism and all of its aspects – from theory and models to social approaches and their practical applications – forms the cornerstone of the 2nd edition of this work. The chapters cover the latest advancements in the domains of psycholinguistics, neuroscience, creativity, and executive functioning. Contributions, new to this edition, offer the reader the most up-to-date research on lifespan and developmental issues. The work also provides insight into how human language is processed by all, not just by bilingual and multilingual speakers.This text is ideal for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in psycholinguistics and the psychology of language, especially those with an emphasis on bilingualism or second language learning.Table of ContentsSection 1. Introduction: Methodological and Theoretical Background 1. Introduction Jeanette Altarriba and Roberto R. Heredia 2. Bilingual Research Methods Viorica Marian 3. Bilingual Mental Models Roberto R. Heredia and Anna B. Cieślicka Section 2. Cognitive and Neurological Mechanisms 4. The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism Crystal J. Robinson and Jeanette Altarriba 5. Multilingualism Processing and Aging Kees de Bot and Nienke Houtzager 6. The Bilingual Brain Angélique Blackburn 7. The Bilingual Brain Revisited: What is Right and What is Left? Jyotsna Vaid Section 3. Creativity and Developmental Principles 8. Bilingualism and Creativty Anatoliy Kharkhurin 9. Bilingualism and Executive Functioning Kenneth R. Paap 10. Bilingualism and Language Cognitive Development Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson Section 4. Social and Socio-Cultural Processes 11. Social Psychology of Bilingualism Luis A. Vega 12. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Bilingualism Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacquline Toribio 14. Code-Switching Dalia Magaña Section 5. Linguistics, Second Language Acquistion, and Communication Disorders 15. Linguistic Contributions to Bilingualism Vivian Cook 16. Second Language Acquisiton and Bilingualism Susan Gass and Margo Glew 17. Bilingualism and Communication Disorders M. Adelaida Restrepo, Ashley Adams, and Beatriz Barragan

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Book SynopsisFrequently cited in scholarly books and journals and praised by students, this book focuses on developmental changes and processes in adolescence rather than on the details and problems of daily life. Major developmental changes associated with adolescence are identified. Noted for its exceptionally strong coverage of cognitive, moral, and social development, this brief, inexpensive book can be used independently or as a supplement to other texts on adolescence.Highlights of the new edition include: expanded coverage of thinking and reasoning. a new chapter on metacognition and epistemic cognition. expanded coverage of controversies concerning the foundations of morality. a new chapter on moral principles and perspective taking. a new chapter on the relation of personal and social identity. a new chapter addressing current controversies concerning the rationality, maturity, and brains of adolescents. more detail on key studies and methodologies and boldfaced key terms and a glossary to highlight and clarify key concepts. Rather than try to cover everything about adolescence at an elementary level, this book presents and builds on the core issues in the scholarly literature, thus encouraging deeper levels of understanding. The book opens with an introduction to the concepts of adolescence, rationality, and development and then explores the three foundational literatures of adolescent development - cognitive development, moral development, and identity formation. The book concludes with a more general account of rationality and development in adolescence and beyond.Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on adolescence or adolescent development offered by departments of psychology, educational psychology, or human development, this brief text is also an ideal supplement for courses on social and/or moral development, cognitive development, or lifespan development. The book is also appreciated by scholars interested in connections across standard topics and research programs. Prior knowledge of psychology is not assumed.Trade Review "The biggest achievement of the book is that complex ideas are presented in an accessible and very readable manner. The reader is guided through the information and encouraged to make up their own mind as to the implications of what is being said, excellently modelling the main argument of the book. ... The main readership for the book is likely to be those studying adolescent development academically. It would, however, be excellent reading material for those educators leading educational policy and those who are interested in the legal rights of adolescents." – Dr. Mark Bowers, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, in Young Minds Magazine"David Moshman’s book has become a standard required book for adolescent development. His breadth of knowledge and the empirical details of adolescent judgment and reasoning are engaging and intriguing to read. He answers age-old questions about adolescent development with a fresh new look, drawing on a wide range of research programs and theoretical traditions about development." - Melanie Killen, University of Maryland, USA"This book provides a concise yet impactful review and synthesis of the literatures on cognitive, identity, and moral development. This is an outstanding portrayal of adolescents from a holistic and integrative perspective." - Seth J. Schwartz, University of Miami, USA"This is the sort of book that most if not all students... should encounter in a text for a course they take on adolescence. Too many of the current texts ... are filled with glitzy material centered around pop culture… Moshman … is covering material that most other texts do not. " - Deanna Kuhn, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA"This is a greatly expanded, conceptually more elaborate, and enriched edition of Moshman’s introduction to adolescence. The writing is clear and the examples are engaging. He departs from the textbook trend to fill pages with myriads of unrelated facts, in order to focus on the central aspects of adolescent development. He invites the reader to consider a picture in which the constructions of cognitive powers, of moral ideals, and of personal identity come together to give coherence and meaning to the diverse experiences of adolescence." - Augusto Blasi, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA "A stupendous achievement. … [The book brings] … coherence to cognitive, moral, and identity development during the adolescent years. [The author] stimulates students … to think about the big picture. ... A brilliantly "simple" writing style. … It’s amazing how much [he] covers ... in such a short book." - John C. Gibbs, The Ohio State University, USA"The chapters [on moral development] represent the finest synthesis of the field I have ever encountered in a textbook. … Students … will come away … with a deep understanding of what development and rationality are all about, and how these ideas can illuminate key issues in this period of life. … The revised edition [is] right on track, targeting areas of exciting new research. … I will certainly snap it up and read it with great enthusiasm." - Charles C. Helwig, University of Toronto, Canada"The pared-down nature of the book makes it easy to supplement with primary readings ... I have previously used this book for ...Adolescent Cognition … for advanced undergraduates. … I plan to use the new edition." - Kathleen M. Galotti, Carleton College, USATable of ContentsIntroduction. Part 1. Cognitive Development. 1. Piaget’s Theory of Formal Operations. 2. Inference, Thinking, and Reasoning. 3. Metacognition and Epistemic Cognition. 4. The Construction of Rationality. Part 2. Moral Development. 5. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development. 6. Justice, Care, and Virtue. 7. Principles and Perspective Taking. 8. The Construction of Morality. Part 3. Identity Formation. 9. Erikson’s Theory of Identity Formation. 10. Identity as a Theory of Oneself. 11. Personal and Social Identity. 12. The Construction of Identity. Part 4. Development Beyond Childhood. 13. Rational Moral Identity. 14. Pluralist Rational Constructivism. 15. Rationality, Liberty, and Education. 16. Adolescents as Young Adults.

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Book SynopsisThe development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships. This handbook brings together heretofore disparate literatures on self- and emotional regulation, brain and physiological processes, mastery motivation, and atypical development to highlight how mastery motivation is related to self-regulation and to clarify the relation between these various processes. Authors from a variety of countries and backgrounds provide an integrated, up-to-date review of the research and the key theoretical models to demonstrate how these processes relate to cultural and individual differences in both typical and atypical development. The renowned editors, all experts in a particular domain of self-regulation, provide section opening chapters that review the literature, provide a perspective that explains the findings, and suggest directions for future research. Although the focus is on quantitative studies, some qualitative findings and research using brain imaging methodologies are included. Outstanding features include: Reviews the development of self and emotional regulation from infancy through adolescence. Contributors from various countries and backgrounds provide an integrative review of the literature to guide the direction of future research. Features contributions from those who have had a strong impact on self-regulation research. Reviews research on developmental disorders that have implications for self-regulation. There are four sections. Section one introduces the development of self- and emotional regulation. This section reviews how self-regulation adapts based on personal and culturally-based goals and how individual differences predispose some to behavior disorders. Socialization influences are examined including a look at when typical regulation processes go awry. Section 2 examines physiological and brain processes as they relate to the development of typical and atypical processes, along with neurocognitive development of performance monitoring and how these processes change over time, cortical activation differences, and behavioral and electrocortical measures of attentional bias. Section 3 reviews the development of self-regulation and mastery motivation including a review of the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ), cross-national comparisons, and what the DMQ can tell us about self-regulation. The section concludes with a look at the development of self-regulation and mastery motivation in individuals with a developmental disability. Section 4 examines self-regulation in atypical development and evidence-based treatment approaches in children with ADHD, autism, and Down syndrome. This book is intended for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in psychology, neuroscience, human development, and education interested in the development of self and emotional regulatory processes. Trade Review"Kudos to the editors for securing this collection of outstanding and diverse papers on the topic of development of self-regulation. This book will be required reading for the students in my lab and classroom." - Kristin A. Buss, The Pennsylvania State University, USA"This thoughtful and thought-provoking book on self-regulation by internationally renowned researchers will appeal to scholars and students alike. This book is both unique and compelling in its examination of self-regulation in all children, including those with typical and atypical pathways of development." Penny Hauser-Cram, Boston College, USA"This handbook will be a critical reference for both scientists and students. The singularly impressive cast of leading researchers has bridged neurobiological, cognitive, affective and social perspectives on the development of self-regulation. This will stand as both a comprehensive guide for understanding this vitally important topic and a framework for advancing the next generation of studies on self-regulation."- Paul D. Hastings, University of California, Davis, USA"More and more psychologists ... are talking now as if self-regulation is one of the most important … aspects of human behavior and human development. …People in … various areas ... could profit from having all of this material easily accessible in one place. It is timely!" – Jacqueline Sue Eccles, University of Michigan, USA "Combining into a single volume the…literatures of emotional regulation, brain processes, mastery motivation, and self regulation is a useful endeavor. ... [This book will] advance the field …and …[will be] attractive to a variety of researchers and scholars. …I am impressed by the breadth of viewpoints …the international flavor of the volume ... [and] by the scholarship of the volume." – Kay Jennings, University of Pittsburgh, USA“This volume is the most through treatment to date of the all-important concept of emotion and self-regulation. It is unique in bridging the theoretical with the empirical, the normal with the idiopathic, the developmental and the adult literatures, and the neurophysiological with the behavioral aspects of self-regulation. The contributors represent the best authorities in this field, and they provide a breadth of coverage that is simply stunning. The volume is a rarity" a superior reference resource, and a rich guide for future research in the field.” - Joseph J. Campos, University of California, Berkeley, USA Table of ContentsSection One: Development of Emotion Regulation & Self-Regulation.K. C. Barret, Introduction to Section I. Overview and Analysis. R.A. Thompson, E. A. Virmani, S. F. Waters, H. A. Raikes, S. Meyer, The Development of Emotion Self-Regulation: The Whole and the Sum of the Parts. M. Holodynski, D. Seeger, P. Kortas-Hartmann, V. Wörmann, Placing Emotion Regulation in a Developmental Framework of Self-Regulation. K. C. Barrett, Adaptive and Maladaptive Regulation of and by Emotion: Process, Context, and Relation to Self-regulation. J. Zeman, M. Cassano, M. Adrian, Socialization Influences on Children’s and Adolescents’ Emotional Self-Regulation Processes: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective. Section Two: Development of Self Regulation: Physiological and Brain Processes.N. A. Fox, Introduction to Section II. Overview and Analysis. H. A. Henderson, P. C. Mundy, The Integration of Self and Other in the Development of Self-regulation: Typical and Atypical Processes. T. A. Dennis, L. J. O’Toole, J. M. DeCicco, Emotion Regulation from the Perspective of Developmental Neuroscience: What, Where, When, and Why. K. Hum, M. D. Lewis, Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation in Children: Implications for Normative Development and Emotion-related Disorders. P. Cédric, M. P. Koolschijn, E. A. Crone, The Neurocognitive Development of Performance Monitoring. A. MacNamara, E. S. Kappenman, S. R. Black, J. N. Bress, G. Hajcak, Integrating Behavioral and Electrocortical Measures of Attentional Bias Toward Threat. Section Three: Development of Self Regulation and Mastery Motivation.N. A. Busch-Rossnagel, G. A. Morgan, Introduction to Section III: Mastery Motivation and Self-Regulation. K. Józsa, D. E. Molnár, The Relationship between Mastery Motivation, Self-Regulated Learning and School Success: a Hungarian and European Perspective. G. A. Morgan, J. Wang, H. F. Liao, Q. Xu, Using the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ) to Assess Mastery Motivation of English- and Chinese- Speaking Children: Psychometrics and Implications for Self-Regulation. J. Wang, K. C. Barrett, Mastery Motivation and Self-regulation during Early Childhood. M. Cuskelly, L. Gilmore, A. Carroll, Self-regulation and Mastery Motivation in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: Barriers, Supports and Strategies. Section Four: Self Regulation In A Typical Development.L. A. Daunhauer, D. J. Fidler, Self-Regulation in Atypical Development: An Overview of the Section. C. M. Walcott, Current Perspectives on Preschool Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. S. L. Hepburn, B. C. Wolff, Self-Regulation in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders. L. A. Daunhauer, D. J. Fidler, Executive Functioning in Individuals with Down syndrome.

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Book SynopsisAs our knowledge of the change and turmoil of adolescence grows, so the number of issues on which psychotherapeutic techniques can shed light increases: this monograph focuses on one of the most urgent. It provides not only practical insights into dealing with suicidal or potentially suicidal adolescents - with an emphasis on prevention of the problem as early as possible - but also a model of the way in which adolescents may find themselves becoming suicidal. Suicide attempts are rare in childhood; they are generally triggered after puberty by the adolescent's reaction to changes in his newly sexually mature body. It is the body that is perceived as the enemy, and sometimes the death of the body seems the only recourse. The adolescent who actually attempts to kill himself no longer doubts his actions or his solutions on his mental creations. At the time of his decision to kill himself, he is taken over by his need for peace more than by the fact of his own death.The monograph contains papers on this topic written by members of the staff of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown together with the proceedings of a conference on "The Suicidal Adolescent" held in October 1993. It contains a wealth of case material illuminating many aspects of a harrowing problem. Because the book comes directly out of the Centre's work as a walk-in centre, the emphasis is on being alert to danger signals and on methods of arresting their causes. It will, therefore, be of interest not only to clinicians and therapists but also to workers in education, medicine, probation, family work or social welfare - indeed, to anyone who works with adolescents.Trade ReviewAs our knowledge of the change and turmoil of adolescence grows, so the number of issues on which psychotherapeutic techniques can shed light increases: this monograph focuses on one of the most urgent. It provides not only practical insights into dealing with suicidal or potentially suicidal adolescents - with an emphasis on prevention of the problem as early as possible - but also a model of the way in which adolescents may find themselves becoming suicidal. Suicide attempts are rare in childhood; they are generally triggered after puberty by the adolescent's reaction to changes in his newly sexually mature body. It is the body that is perceived ad the enemy, and sometimes the death of the body seems the only recourse. The adolescent who actually attempts to kill himself no longer doubts his actions or his solutions on his mental creations. At the time of his decision to kill himself, he is taken over by his need for peace more than by the fact of his own death.The monograph contains papers on this topic written by members of the staff of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown together with the proceedings of a conference on "The Suicidal Adolescent" held in October 1993. It contains a wealth of case material illuminating many aspects of a harrowing problem. Because the book comes directly out of the Centre's work as a walk-in centre, the emphasis is on being alert to danger signals and on methods of arresting their causes. It will, therefore, be of interest not only to clinicians and therapists but also to workers in education, medicine, probation, family work or social welfare - indeed, to anyone who works with adolescents.Table of ContentsPART ONE Work with adolescence at Risk, CHAPTER ONE Psychological development In adolescence: danger signs CHAPTER TWO Depression and self-hatred CHAPTER THREE Depression and guilt CHAPTER FOUR A suicidal girl from a loving home CHAPTER FIVE Loss of the sense of reality about death CHAPTER SIX Don't help me! -the suicidal adolescent PART Two proceeding of a Conference on A Suicidal Adolescent, Understanding suicide: does it have a special meaning in adolescence? Discussion CHAPTER EIGHT The suicidal adolescent: experiences of a general practitioner CHAPTER NINE About not noticing the suicidal adolescent A research study into attempted suicide in adolescence, Discussion CHAPTER ELEVEN Can we prevent suicide In adolescence?

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Book SynopsisThis is the second monograph published by Karnac Books on behalf of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown. Drawing on the Centre's unique pool of expertise in the field, this book contains papers giving up-to-date psychodynamic perspectives on adolescent breakdown by leading clinical experts. These cover a range of topics, such as the differing developments in male and female adolescents, and the particular problems of psychotherapeutic intervention with them. It also includes the proceedings of a conference on the subject held in October 1995. Here the issues of adolescent breakdown are discussed in the wider context which workers in the caring professions must consider. Overall, this volume provides a concise, contemporary overview of a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognized both inside and outside the psychotherapeutic community.Contributors:Anthony Bateman, Debbie Bandler Bellman, Gabrielle Crockatt, Maxim de Sauma, Domenico di Ceglie, Sara Flanders, Maurice H. Friedman, Christopher Gibson, Kevin Healy, M. Egle Laufer, Kamil Mehra, Joan Schachter, Nicholas Temple, Peter WilsonTrade Review'For many years, Moses Laufer and his colleagues at the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown have made important contributions to our understanding of the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorder in adolescence. This new monograph underscores, with rich clinical documentation, the urgency of these tasks and the value of a psychoanalytic developmental perspective in pursuing them. It will be of value to all professionals who work with young people, and should be essential reading for those concerned with public policy as well.'- Aaron H. Esman, M.D. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (Emeritus) Cornell University Medical College; Editor, Adolescent PsychiatryTable of ContentsIntroduction , The Adolescent and Developmental Breakdown , Developmental breakdown in adolescence: problems of understanding and helping , Interferences in the move from adolescence to adulthood: the development of the male , Interferences in the move from adolescence to adulthood: the development of the female , Problems in working with adolescents , The problem of helping in relation to developmental breakdown in adolescence , Proceedings of Conference on “Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond” , Defining breakdown , Discussion , Working with adolescent breakdown , Pre-therapy , Therapy , Discussion , Later consequences of adolescent breakdown , Discussion , Responding to mental breakdown in adolescence

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Book SynopsisUtilising her wealth of material and experience, Raphael-Leff explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the internal world? How does a pregnant woman live with two people under her skin? What is the expectant partner's experience? Which dreams, fears and fantasies proliferate around pregnancy and birth?Trade Review'Drawing on many thousands of hours of interviews with pregnant women, this sane and helpful book does the difficult thing of catering to two audiences: the pregnant woman with no particular psychoanalytic knowledge, and the psychotherapist with no particular knowledge - perhaps - of pregnancy. We are presented with the entire spectrum of emotion, joyful and anguished, relating to conception and childbearing. No pregnant woman could finish this book and think herself strange for whatever feelings pregnancy has evoked.'Pregnancy: The inside Story is particularly concerned with the many women who need to rid themselves of excessive fears and idealized expectations of their imagined baby in order to clear the way for a real relationship with a real child. This can only be done through awareness of the inevitable ambivalence that pregnancy and parenthood will bring. Each section of the book - from its early chapter on "Conceived Fantasies" through discussions of relations with partners, wider family, work and specialized areas like fetal malformation - keeps this perspective clearly in view. It is Raphael-Leff's persuasive argument that there is a greater need for therapeutic work with pregnant women, and that this should be available to a wider socio-economic group than it is at present.'- Melissa Benn, British Journal of Psychotherapy'Psychoanalyst and mother Joan Raphael-Leff has made a special study of the states of mind, dreams and emotional fluctuations that pregnancy evokes. She has done much to normalize our understanding of the often disturbing mental meanderings that infuse pregnant women's waking and dreaming states.'- Susie Orbach in The GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction , Conceived Fantasies , Pandora’s Box , The Placental Paradigm , The Place of Paternity , A Model of Differing Orientations , Changing Relationships , Conceived Realities – Technological Gains – and Loss , The Birth , Different Approaches to Parenting – facilitators, Regulators and Reciprocators , Journey to the Interior – Pre- and Perinatal Psychotherapy , Therapy in Early Parenthood , Epilogue , Appendix – Vulnerability During Childbearing

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young children's communications and behaviour and the dynamics of family relationships within the consulting room in a lively, accessible style. It covers common themes in work with young children such as disruptive, angry behaviour, separation and sleep difficulties, and problems in the parent/couple relationship. This book is essential reading for all early years professionals hoping to gain a greater understanding of the technique, observational skills and theory which underlie a psychodynamic approach to work with the under fives.Trade Review'This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young children's communications and behaviour and the dynamics of family relationships within the consulting room in a lively, accessible style. It covers common themes in work with young children such as disruptive, angry behaviour, separation and sleep difficulties, and problems in the parent/couple relationship. This book is essential reading for all early years professionals hoping to gain a greater understanding of the technique, observational skills and theory which underlie a psychodynamic approach to work with the under fives.'- Margot Waddell, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic'This rich collection celebrates the Tavistock Clinic Under Fives Service, which has much to teach us about the needs and possibilities of therapeutic interventions for families. With its multi-layered approach - to theory, service provision and clinical practice; to infants, toddlers and children; to their parents as adults now and as children then - this riveting book can be read on many levels and should be required reading for all those involved in "the early years".' - Penelope Leach, Founder member of the Association for Infant Mental Health-UK; author of "Your Baby and Child" and "Children First" 'This lively book will prove invaluable to professionals in both clinic and community settings. Rich case material brought by each contributor illustrates the complexities of brief focused work in families with young children whose distress manifests in a variety of presenting problems. Modelling for clients their own emotional availability and capacity to withstand the tremendous impact of powerful forces, these very experienced clinicians support families by providing thinking space and promoting thoughtfulness.' - Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, Psychoanalyst; Leader, Teen-Parents' Project, UCL/Anna Freud Centre, London 'This scholarly book is a welcome addition to the expanding field of literature on infant mental health and, in particular, to clinical work with infants and their parents. The book describes clearly how the application of observational skills, psychoanalytic concepts and child development research underpin the work, making it accessible to all mental health professionals, whether infant, child or adult therapists.' - Elizabeth Tuters (Toronto,Canada) Infant, Child, Adult Psychoanalyst; Member of Board of Directors, World Association of Infant Mental Health 'This collection of papers is an important resource for clinicians intervening with troubled under fives and their families. The writing vividly conveys the intense passions of young children's emotional life and represents a distillation of clinical expertise, in particular the therapists' creative commitment to reaching the children and their families. Deeply moving and inspiring, this book sends a message of hopefulness that thoughtful clinical intervention can have a transformative effect on the lives of children and their families.' - Frances Thomson Salo, adult and child psychoanalyst; Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Masters of Infant Mental HealthTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Theory and Practice -- Early developments -- Brief work with parents of infants -- The relation of infant observation to clinical practice in an under-fives counselling service -- Infant–parent psychotherapy: Selma Fraiberg’s contribution to understanding the past in the present -- Later developments -- The process of change in under-fives work -- A slow unfolding—at double speed: therapeutic interventions with parents and their young children -- A sinking heart: whose problem is it? Under-fives work in the surgery of a general practitioner -- Common Themes in work with under Fives -- Challenging and disruptive behaviour -- Anger between children and parents: how can we help? -- Disruptive and distressed toddlers: the impact of undetected maternal depression on infants and young children -- Where the wild things are: tantrums and behaviour problems in two under-fives boys -- The parent couple and oedipal issues -- Locating the ghost in the nursery: the importance of the parental couple -- Father “there and not there”: the concept of a “united couple” in families with unstable partnerships -- Oedipal issues in under-fives families: creating a space for thinking -- Separation and loss; weaning and growth -- Spanning presence and absence: separation anxiety in the early years -- Sleeping and feeding problems: attunement and daring to be different -- Holding the balance: life and death in the early years

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Book SynopsisUsing 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a new psychological framework for mental health practitioners. The author throws light on the slow pace of brain development during childhood, grapples with both the question of evolutionary factors, and the infant's sensitivity and predisposition to build relationships within his environment. The book also broadens and highlights two key topics topics; the origin of language and the importance of introjective-projective modulation in verbal communication.Trade Review'Dr Sasso's book is a scholarly and creatively brave effort to bring together diverse areas of the human mind and its development, within an organising framework of introjective and projective processes. This book deserves to be read by anyone who seeks to find bridges between psychoanalysis and contemporary scientific accounts of the developing mind.'- Mary Target, PhD, Psychoanalyst and Clinical Psychologist. Reader in Psychoanalysis at University College, London'This book comes as a landmark. Sasso's work is extremely valuable for everybody wanting to think over possible points of convergence between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. This well-documented text addresses the complexity of this field and suggests a new model of brain growth that takes into account the psychic work of both the child and his/her carers. It touches especially upon the problems of the development of consciousness and the origins of language.'- Bernard Golse, Psychoanalyst and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Paris'Infancy research and information from affective neuroscience and on dynamic brain functions active between subjects, require a new clinical theory of human minds and how they communicate. Giampaolo Sasso meets these challenges with a critique of Freud's ambitious and prophetic Project, and with a richly informed analysis of the "perceptual- motor properties of neural pathways". His fluent review, and his discussion of the psychology of parent-child relations and how they build a conscious personality, will be welcomed.'- Colwyn Trevarthen, Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and Psychobiology, Department of Psychology, The University of EdinburghTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- The cultural inheritance of Project for a Scientific Psychology -- Recent progress in the field of neuroscience -- The current idea of a child's mental development -- A new model of brain development -- Drive dynamics and maternal modulation -- Normal and pathogenic development of mother-child interaction -- Defence structures and the development of consciousness -- The origin of language -- Child development and the integration of psychoanalysis and neuroscience -- The unresolved problems of Freudian metapsychology -- Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow do I manage an aggressive child positively when I have twenty other children who need my attention? How can I develop a good relationship with a child I seem to dislike? How do I maintain a positive working relationship with the parents of a disturbed and disturbing child? Written in a jargon-free, readable style, with many real life examples, this book is a must-have resource for playworkers seeking to enhance their skills as a whole. It highlights how the way we think about children's behaviour colours the way we react to it. It offers playworkers a different way of understanding many ordinary childhood behaviours such as lying, stealing and bullying, and gives practical advice not only on management but on how practitioners can identify, trust and develop their own skills.Trade Review'This book is a wonderful compendium of practical wisdom about working with children in a particular setting. But like all the most interesting writing about working with children it will engage anyone who wants to know something new just about the experience of being, and being with, children. Playworkers are likely to become more and more significant in children's lives; and A Playworker's Guide to Understanding Children's Behaviour at last gives them their due.' - Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst and Writer'This much needed book will be invaluable in helping playworkers respond positively to the children in their clubs. The case studies bring the book to life and will prove a practical resource when confronted with the myriad of emotions and behaviours that children and young people display.'- Annette Rawstrone, Assistant Editor, Nursery World'A valuable tool covering a vast array of case studies to help playworkers understand the complexities of childhood psychology and provide the best possible care in a comfortable and secure environment.'- Amanda Argent, Chief Executive Officer, Schoolfriend etc.'The clever use of practical examples to highlight causes and effects of children's behaviour makes this book highly accessible to front-line practitioners. Specific information about this age group is scarce and I particularly liked the way in which difficult issues are dealt with, in context of the 8-12 year olds' experience and fears, and through discussions by playworkers as they address the situations. Acknowledging behaviour as a language, the author introduces a refreshing honesty about interactions in out-of-school clubs, reflecting the excitement, struggles and changing relationships that are the stuff of life for playworkers. Essential reading for everyone working with middle years children!'- Jackie Nunns, CEO, Kids' CityTable of ContentsContentsPart One: Playworkers, Children and BehaviourPart Two: Stress and WorryPart Three: Just Attention Seeking?Part Four: Worrying BehaviourPart Five: Special Needs?Part Six: The Family and the Outside WorldConclusion: Can Psychoanalytic InsightReally Help a Club Worker?

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Book SynopsisMost research in the field of attachment is on the experiences of attachment, separation and loss, and their developmental course and effects. This book widens our vision to the public domain, to consider the ways in which social institutions, culture and social policy may diminish our ability to make and maintain secure attachments. It argues that collective human security depends in part on the quality of attachments amongst individuals, a quality which, in turn, is conditioned by the structures of public life. The book invites its readers to reflect on those social processes that put our security at risk and to explore the prospects for enabling change.Trade Review'Risking Human Security is an important book. Written for both a professional and wide lay audience, this volume seeks to bring the issues of attachment into the public domain. What makes it unique, is its exploration of how policy decisions, culture and politics can undermine - or support - the conditions on which human survival and security depend. Using case studies written by scholars and by activists with anthropological and psychological insights, Green demonstrates that our abilities to bond with others can be weakened or shattered by more than what is popularly understood as "trauma". Contributors demonstrate that like all structural violence, consumer and industrial cultures can be as destructive of attachments as are wars and forced migration. Embracing,and going beyond, traditional academic analysis, "Risking Human Security" provides corrective and necessarily subversive lenses to make the human condition more visible. Green's book makes a valuable contribution to all who are working to alleviate human suffering and to create a more life-affirming world.'- Joseph Gerson, PhD, Director of Programs, Director of Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service Committee, New England'This is a book we have been waiting for. Within a framework of proposing that threats to attachment are threats to human security, Marci Green has assembled a team of contributors analysing the risks to secure attachments that arise from both the extraordinary and routine conditions of everyday life. Contributions from clinicians, researchers, political activists and educators enable Green's book to explore the direct effects of political conflict, forced migration, and the aftermath of environmental disaster. In addition the book makes valuable contributions to our understanding of the indirect damage done to attachments by our social arrangements, by considering the organisation of our workplaces, the effects of aggressive marketing practice on children's capacity to empathise with others, and the disastrous undermining of communities caused by the U.S. 'War on Drugs' and imprisonment practices. This is a fine book and essential reading.'- Joseph Schwartz, Training Therapist and Director of research at the Centre for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, London; Editor of "Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis"'Timely, interesting and valuable, the book has a wide appeal.'- Andrew Barley, Therapy TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The Basic Principles of Attachment Theory -- The social construction of the human brain -- The Connections between Public Life and Personal Attachment -- Attachment and loss of community -- Labour to love -- Unsettling policies: unanticipated consequences for migrant Afro-Caribbean families -- Seeking asylum: the struggle for a new secure base -- Compassion deficit disorder? The impact of consuming culture on children’s relationships -- Primitive justice: who pays the price? -- Strategies for Enabling Change -- Human security and conflict -- Enabling change

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Book Synopsis'This monograph contains a rich variety of material that is not usually included in traditional writings on trauma. In addition to the theoretical and clinical perspectives, poetry and storytelling join in to weave a vivid tapestry of multifaceted approaches to trauma. Whilst remaining true to its theoretical base (which, of course, is Bowlby's attachment theory), the monograph succeeds in locating its subject matter in wider perspectives, thus enabling the reader to appreciate the complexity of contributing factors. It is not easy to compile a single publication out of a conference; yet, this monograph achieves its objective by offering a coherent treatment of trauma that also includes some up-to-date approaches and innovations. The papers are written with authority, clarity and sensitivity and will provide the reader with a most beneficial elaboration of trauma from an attachment theory perspective.'- Renos K. PapadopoulosTrade Review'This monograph contains a rich variety of material that is not usually included in traditional writings on trauma. In addition to the theoretical and clinical perspectives, poetry and storytelling join in to weave a vivid tapestry of multifaceted approaches to trauma. Whilst remaining true to its theoretical base (which, of course, is Bowlby's attachment theory), the monograph succeeds in locating its subject matter in wider perspectives, thus enabling the reader to appreciate the complexity of contributing factors. It is not easy to compile a single publication out of a conference; yet, this monograph achieves its objective by offering a coherent treatment of trauma that also includes some up-to-date approaches and innovations. The papers are written with authority, clarity and sensitivity and will provide the reader with a most beneficial elaboration of trauma from an attachment theory perspective.'- Renos K. Papadopoulos'Trauma and Attachment engages its subject with both heart and intellect. In Gillian Slovo's moving description of her courtroom encounters with the men who murdered her mother, or in Chris Purnell's insightful memoir of growing up in a children's home, we confront the experience of trauma at its most immediate. In Bessel van der Kolk's innovative formulation, we come closer to understanding the impact of prolonged, repeated trauma on the developing child. This volume adds to the growing literature that documents the central role of disrupted attachment in most traumatic disorders.'- Judith L. Herman, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolTable of ContentsContentsContributorsAcknowledgmentsTrauma and Attachment: Introduction: Sarah Benamer and Kate WhiteATTACHMENT THEORY AND THE JOHN BOWLBY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2006: A SHORT HISTORY: Bernice LaschingerTRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? Gillian SlovoSURVIVING THE CARE SYSTEM: Chris PurnellDEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA DISORDER: Bessel van der KolkDEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA IN ADULTS: Felicity de ZuluetaTHE HUNGRY SELF: Sue RichardsonTHE SHADOW OF MURDER: Rachel WingfieldHOW DO WE HELP OURSELVES?: Valerie SinasonTRAUMA AND ATTACHMENT READING LIST

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Book SynopsisThis book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time limited, brief, non-intensive ways of working so are applicable in many settings and can therefore be generalised to other clinical teams. The populations worked with are diverse and often present mainstream services with refractory clinical problems, so an applied psychoanalytic approach is well worth trying given the evidence presented in this volume.There is in addition an excellent theoretical chapter on the issues for such clinical research from Stephen Shirk which merits consideration by those wanting to evaluate their own work.This book has had a long gestation but it is an important contribution to services for child and adolescent mental health services to ensure the full menu of interventions is retained in these times of financial restraint with increasing family distress and concerns about inadequate parenting, family breakdown and troublesome adolescents.Trade ReviewContributorsJohn Tsiantis, Judith Trowell, Daniel Widlocher, Monica Lanyado, Didier Houzel, Eilis Kennedy, Siv Boalt Boethius, Maria Rhode, Jackie Hall, Gunnar Carlberg, Klaus-Thomas Kronmuller, Annette Stefini, Annette Geiser-Elze, Hildegard Horn, Mechtild Hartmann, Klaus Winkelmann, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Tamara Fischmann, Stephen R. Shirk, Rebecca A. Burwell, Euthymia D. HibbsContents:ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - John Tsiantis and Judith TrowellABOUT THE AUTHORSSERIES EDITORS' PREFACE - Monica Lanyado and Didier HouzelFOREWORD - Daniel WidlocherINTRODUCTION - John TsiantisCHAPTER ONE: Child and adolescent psychotherapy research: Clinical applications - Eilis KennedyCHAPTER TWO: Integrating research in a clinical setting for child psychotherapy: A case study about facilitating and hindering factors in psychoanalytic psychotherapy - Siv Boalt BoethiusCHAPTER THREE: What does a manual contribute? - Judith Trowell, Maria Rhode and Jackie HallCHAPTER FOUR: Focused systematic case studies: An approach linking clinical work and research - Gunnar CarlbergCHAPTER FIVE: The Heidelberg study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents - Klaus-Thomas Kronmuller MD, Annette Stefini, Annette Geiser-Elze, Hildegard Horn, Mechtild Hartmann and Klaus Winkelmann MDCHAPTER SIX: Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): A field for contemporary psychoanalysis?: Some clinical, conceptual and neurobiological considerations based on the Frankfurt Prevention Study - Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Tamara FischmannCHAPTER SEVEN: Research on therapeutic processes: In psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents - Stephen R. Shirk and Rebecca A. BurwellCHAPTER EIGHT: Ethical principles in conducting research with children and adolescents - Euthymia D. Hibbs Ph.D.INDEXTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Child and adolescent psychotherapy research: Clinical applications -- Integrating research in a clinical setting for child psychotherapy: A case study about facilitating and hindering factors in psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- What does a manual contribute? -- Focused systematic case studies: An approach linking clinical work and research -- The Heidelberg study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents -- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): A field for contemporary psychoanalysis?: Some clinical, conceptual and neurobiological considerations based on the Frankfurt Prevention Study 1 -- Research on therapeutic processes: In psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents -- Ethical principles in conducting research with children and adolescents

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Book SynopsisAn innovative view of the development of psychopathology and sexual offending. In an exciting synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social psychology with forensic and criminal literature, it offers a fresh perspective as to the reasons that may precipitate some individuals into violent or sexual offences. The book is written for clinicians of all modalities, although its very readable style, make it accessible to anyone with an interest in this area.Trade ReviewIt commences with a study of the development of an infant's brain under positive conditions, and then demonstrates how adverse circumstances for the developing child can change the structure of the developing brain. It argues that the concept of attachment is both a physical and psychological process, which can predispose a child to be vulnerable at later critical periods in it's development: during the development of the sexual template, and later during puberty and adolescence.Insecure attachments form behavioural pathways that continue to be played out in adult loving relationships, and can lead to codependent relationships, domestic violence, and sometimes into psychopathology. Vandalisation of the sexual template at critical times can lead individuals into developing sexual paraphilias and may lead to sexual offending. Discussion of violence, stalking, sexual offences against adults and children, and Internet pornography are discussed in depth. It argues that whereas not all children who are abused grow up to be sexual offenders, virtually all sexual and violent offenders had very adverse childhoods, and that the criminal justice system has lost sight of this link.'This book is a good read! This may come as a surprise given that its content is a synthesis of neuroscience, attachment theory, and forensic psychology. But what Glyn Hudson Allez achieves here is an immediate and accessible study of infant brain development, and how adverse intrusion can interfere with this development [...] the text is interspersed with an almost literary case study.'- Antonia Murphy, CPC Review'... stunning ... I know for sure I will refer to and reread parts of Infant Losses; Adult Searches many times. [the author has] cited so much evidence for all I believe in and use with my clients and ... organised it into a totally logical flow which I really appreciate. It will be recommended reading for my team of therapists, I will refer to it in my training courses and I will be ensuring it is read by the student who I'm soon to be supervising in her honours and then PhD theses on a topic (just being refined now) within the field of sexual "addiction" and attachment. [The book has] advanced this field of knowledge markedly.'- Robyn Salisbury, Registered Clinical Psychologist; Director, Sex Therapy New Zealand Ltd'This book shows attachment theory and research at its best, as more than just a predictive or diagnostic model. It becomes a tool to help individuals piece together often-shattered narratives to achieve security.'- Gabriel Brown FPC, Therapy Today

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Book SynopsisIntegrated in this book are contributions from leading scientists who have each studied children's adjustment across risks common in contemporary society. Chapters in the first half of the book focus on risks emanating from the family; chapters in the second half focus on risks stemming from the wider community. All contributors have explicitly addressed a common set of core themes, including the criteria they used to judge 'resilience' within particular risk settings, the major factors that predict resilience in these settings; the limits to resilience (vulnerabilities coexisting with manifest success); and directions for interventions. In the concluding chapter, the editor integrates evidence presented through all preceding chapters to distill (a) substantive considerations for future research, and (b) salient directions for interventions and social policies, based on accumulated research knowledge.Trade Review'… a very comprehensive overview …'. Journal of Psychological Medicine'Resilience and Vulnerability is resplendent with insights … Resilience and Vulnerability is an important milestone in the development of the risk and resilience response to the problems experienced by young people. It enhances our understanding of the complexities of behaviour and circumstance while illuminating the necessary focus and quality of intervention efforts.' Peter Stanley, University of Waikato at Tauranga'… brings together an extensive range of research material on the highly topical theme of resilience and vulnerability … a comprehensive coverage of the strands of the discussion.' Journal of Social PolicyTable of Contents1. A resilience framework for research, policy, and practice: contributions from Project Competence Ann S. Masten and Jenifer L. Powell; Part I. Familial Adversities: Parental Psychopathology and Family Processes: 2. Young children with mentally ill parents: resilient developmental systems Ronald Seifer; 3. Risk and protective factors for children of depressed parents Constance Hammen; 4. Resilience and vulnerability among sons of alcoholics: relationship to developmental outcomes between early childhood and adolescence Robert A. Zucker, Maria W. Wong, Leon I. Puttler, and Hiram E. Fitzgerald; 5. Maternal drug abuse versus other psychological disturbances: risks and resilience among children Suniya S. Luthar, Karen D'Avanzo and Sarah Hites; 6. Resilience to childhood adversity: results of a 21 year study David M. Fergusson and L. John Horwood; 7. Sequelae of child maltreatment: vulnerability and resilience Kerry E. Bolger and Charlotte J. Patterson; 8. Risk and resilience in children coping with their parents' divorce and remarriage E. Mavis Hetherington and Anne Mitchell Elmore; 9. Correlational and experimental study of resilience for children of divorce and parentally bereaved children Irwin Sandler, Sharlene Wolchik, Caroline Davis, Rachel Haine and Tim Ayers; Part II. Exosystemic and Sociodemographic Risks: 10. Rethinking resilience: a developmental process perspective Tuppett M. Yates, Byron Egeland and L. Alan Sroufe; 11. Poverty and early childhood adjustment Elizabeth B. Owens and Daniel S. Shaw; 12. Emerging perspectives on context-specificity of children's adaptation and resilience: evidence from a decade of research with urban children in adversity Peter A. Wyman; 13. Holistic, contextual perspectives on risk, protection, and competence among low-income urban adolescents Edward Seidman and Sara Pedersen; 14. Overcoming the odds? Adolescent development in the context of urban poverty Ana Mari Cauce, Angela Stewart, Melanie Domenech Rodriguez, Bryan Cochran, and Joshua Ginzler; 15. Adaptation among youth facing multiple risks: prospective research findings Arnold Sameroff, Leslie Gutman and Steve C. Peck; 16. Positive adaptation among youth exposed to community violence Deborah Gorman-Smith and Patrick H. Tolan; 17. Perceived discrimination and resilience Laura A. Szalacha, Sumru Erkut, Cynthia García Coll, Jacqueline P. Fields, Odette Alarcón and Ineke Ceder; 18. Promoting resilience through early childhood intervention Arthur J. Reynolds and Suh-Ruu Ou; Part III. Commentaries: 19. Toward building a better brain: neurobehavioral outcomes, mechanisms, and processes of environmental enrichment John W. Curtis and Charles A. Nelson; 20. Genetic influences on risk and protection: implications for understanding resilience Michael Rutter; 21. Resilience and vulnerability: an integrative review Suniya S. Luthar and Laurel Bidwell Zelazo.

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Book SynopsisThe main concept is empathy - one feels what is appropriate for another person's situation, not one's own. This important book is the culmination of three decades of study and research by a leading figure in the area of child and developmental psychology.Trade Review'Empathy and Moral Development is the most important book on empathy, its cultivation, and its fundamental contribution to moral development and behavior. Hoffman's use of types of moral encounter as an organizational device is inspired. In this one work, we finally have the integrative product of Hoffman's three decades of impressive contributions to the field.' John C. Gibbs, Ohio State University'Elegantly written … a useful attempt to make moral reasoning more evidence based.' Richard Ashcroft, The Lancet'For over four decades Martin Hoffman has investigated the many facets of moral development, focusing particularly on empathy. In this very important book he integrates his efforts, giving the reader a powerful account of the central role that empathy plays in moral agency. Hoffman's book will serve as a contemporary milestone for both researchers and educators in moral development.' Journal of Moral EducationTable of Contents1. Introduction and overview; 2. Empathy, its arousal and prosocial functioning; 3. Development of empathic distress; 4. Empathic anger, sympathy, guilt, feeling of injustice; 5. Guilt and moral internalization; 6. From discipline to internalization; 7. Relationship and other virtual guilts; 8. Empathy's limitations: is empathy enough? 9. Empathy and moral principles; 10. Development of empathy-based justice principles; 11. Multiple- claimant and caring-versus-justice dilemmas; 12. The universality and culture issue; 13. Implications for intervention.

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Book SynopsisComparisons in Human Development examines ways in which different disciplines have treated comparisons and development and provides empirical examples that take a comparative, developmental approach to human activity and thought.Trade Review"...the quality of the chapters is generally high, and they are well written and well referenced...a stimulating and fertile resource." Contemporary PsychologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Metatheoretical Approaches to Developmental Comparison: 2. Developmental comparison Lucien Winegar; 3. Developmental concepts across disciplines Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner and Gilbert Gottlieb; 4. Ecological perspectives in human development: a comparison of Gibson and Bronfenbrenner Jonathan Tudge, Jacquelyn Gray and Diane Hogan; Part II. Paradigmatic Statements: 5. Nested comparisons in the study of historical change and individual adaptation Michael J. Shanahan and Glen H. Elder, Jr; 6. The value of comparisons in developmental psychology Debra Mekos and Patricia A. Clubb; 7. Implications from developmental cross-cultural research for the study of acculturation in Western civilizations Beth Costes, Rona McCall and Wolfgang Schneider; Part III. Comparisons at the Level of Data: 8. The co-development of identity, agency and lived worlds Dorothy C. Holland and Debra G. Skinner; 9. Sociocultural promotions constraining children's social activity: comparisons and variability in the development of 'friendships' Paul A. Winterhoff; 10. The everyday experiences of North American preschoolers in two cultural communities: a cross-disciplinary and cross-level analysis Jonathan Tudge and Sarah Putnam; Part IV. Commentaries: 11. Developmental science: a case of the bird flapping the wing, or the wing flapping the bird?: commentary on Winegar's chapter Jeanette A. Lawrence; 12. Conceptual transposition, parallelism and inter-disciplinary communication: commentary on Shanahan, Valsiner, and Gottlieb's chapter Jeanette A. Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds; 13. The 'ecological' approach: when labels suggest similarities beyond basic concepts in psychology Angela Branco; 14. Problems of comparison: methodology, the art of story-telling, and implicit models Hideo Kojima; 15. The promise of comparative, longitudinal research for studies of productive-reproductive processes in children's lives William A. Corsaro; 16. Integrating psychology into social science: a commentary on Tudge and Putnam, and Holland and Skinner James Youniss.

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