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These issues are examined in this, the first volume in which the increasingly popular metaphor of dialogue is systematically applied to developmental issues.

Dialogue is a multilevel concept and can be understood (1) as a real exchange between two interacting persons, (2) as the interaction between culture at large (e.g.

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A study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks down when members fail to experience the same events in the same way.

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A comprehensive and practical guide to the important areas of development-biological, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, psychological, and sexual-taking place during the early adolescent years and what concerned parents can do to help their ten-to-fifteen year old get through this time of drastic upheaval.

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A balanced introduction that bridges the gap between current neuroscience research and early childhood practice.

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This volume fills the void created by the lack of a book-length, critical, and systematic treatment of ecological attitudes and behaviors. Gray summarizes and integrates existing research and reviews major alternative approaches to measuring ecological attitudes, while presenting his own ecological attitude domain model.

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This book advances a contemporary theory of emotional development, a neo-Piagetian theory that postulates that both our feelings and emotions are cognitive constructions that are informed by our needs and values, and that our feelings and emotions change considerably in the course of development.

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A report of research on two groups of residentially placed, emotionally disturbed adolescents compared on the basis of their adoptive status.

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Robert Kastenbaum, creator of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Death, has now collected and edited a source of reliable information on adult development that is accessible to the general reader, useable by professionals, and perfect for those who are simply browsing.

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Advances our understanding of family and peer relationships by addressing the question of why there are links between these two social worlds.

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This volume focuses on the challenges faced by Black children in the post-modern age. Topics addressed include quantifying normal behavior, racial identity, racial socialization, acting white, teen fatherhood, poverty, violence, and Black males and sports.

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The author demonstrates that there exist many human "intelligences", common to all cultures - each with its own patterns of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others.

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Based on a year-long micro-ethnography of a nursery school, this book presents a unique approach to childhood socialization by focusing directly upon the social, interactive, and communicative processes that make up the world of young children.

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This volume is the result of the clinical, administrative, and advocacy experience that Dr. Plenk gained during the growth and development of The Children's Center in Salt Lake City.

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This volume is the result of the clinical, administrative, and advocacy experience that Dr. Plenk gained during the growth and development of The Children's Center in Salt Lake City.

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From twins torn away from their family and separated, to a girl shut in a basement, maltreated and malnourished, the world of Jewish children who were hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust becomes painfully clear in this volume.

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Describes recent thinking on interactive development across the spectrum of competency domains within the individual. This collection of writings describes the recent thinking of psychologists and educators regarding interactive development across the spectrum of competency domains within the individual.

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There are extensive differences in the family, the school environment, the community and even religious institutions. For example, families rarely have a coherent extended family. This work spotlight these historical changes, and also ways parents are succeeding in creating kids of character nonetheless.

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Douglas Kleiber argues that the value of leisure for development lies in the particular experiences derived from those leisure activities. Experiences that fulfil a need for autonomy, competence, self-expression, and relatedness are generative of development and self-actualisation.

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Tells parents how to understand, take part in, and enhance their child's development.

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All parents want their children to be happy but no parent knows how to guarantee it. Now this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which parents can influence their childrens happiness, providing a positive framework for emotional growth.

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