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Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders.

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Helps you learn how a child's brain works, develops, and changes during the critical stages of childhood. This book provides guidance to help parents and educators understand children's cognitive development and suggestions on how to nurture children to their full potential.

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Psychology is caught in a conflict of paradigms. We all claim to be interactionists, yet we continue to accept the language and the thinking of traditional dichotomies. This text explores these confusions and moves on to offer an alternative view of development.

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How does the mind develop, from ovum to adolescence This book provides a review, from classic studies to the radical new insights of recent research. The text presents complex ideas through familiar analogies and concrete illustrations and conveys the excitement of research in this dynamically expanding field.

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How does the mind develop, from ovum to adolescence This book provides a review, from classic studies to the radical new insights of recent research. The text presents complex ideas through familiar analogies and concrete illustrations and conveys the excitement of research in this dynamically expanding field.

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People's capabilities form the most crucial of all mankind's resources. Topics covered include prodigies, geniuses, the acceleration of development in young people, and the influences of family backgrounds on young people.

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The Social Psychology of Adolescence introduces and reviews major themes in adolescent development, including such topics as sexuality and the risk of HIV/AIDS, school life, teenagers in the work place, mental health issues, and others. It is a review of scientific evidence of the different factors that help shape and mould adolescent behaviours.

This first-of-its-kind, two-volume set examines physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that undermineor supporthealthy development in Asian American children.

How do skin color, culture, racial and ethnic identities, politics, economics, and environment influence children's mental health and academic success

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Critiquing Social and Emotional Learning offers a systematic cultural analysis of social and emotional learning (SEL) as a codified phenomenon in education, critiquing the messages of SEL and the impact they have on teachers and children. Clio Stearns argues for more allowance of negative affect and complex emotional existence in the classroom.

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This analysis of the evolution of the human psyche shows how important markers from our evolutionary path can be discerned in the structure of the human brain, in our similarities to our infrahuman ancestors and in contemporary behaviours.

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In The Adulteration of Children's Sports, Kristi Erdal explores the effects of organized sports on childrens physical, social, and emotional well-being. Erdal provides readers with empirically supported best practices and debunks a number of myths that surround childrens organized sports.

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What behaviour qualifies as play, what brain mechanisms are needed to produce play, and of what benefit does play have to our lives With reference to a range of species, but using the feisty rat as their model, this title synthesize three decades of empirical research to create the first truly integrated study.

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