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Looks at how fear, and other such uncomfortable emotions as shame and anxiety, becomes a key factor in shaping our lives in a negative fashion and explains how to overcome fear to accomplish our best in love, work, and life.

(Paperback)

Friendship issues top the list of parents concerns. Unkind or exclusive behaviour appears to be starting sooner than ever even at nursery. Tanith Carey analyses the increasingly complex social pressures changing the face of childhood and offers solutions for building your childs social skills for a happier, more carefree childhood.

(Paperback)

Explains psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children, transforming our understanding of how babies see the world, and in turn promoting a deeper appreciation for the role of parents.

(Paperback)

She made possible the extension of psycho-analysis to the field of early childhood, and in this way not only made the treatment of young children possible but also threw new light on psychological development in childhood and on the roots of adult neuroses and psychoses.

(Paperback)

Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean This book presents an exploration of the best-known fairy stories.

(Paperback)

Covers subjects such as child and adolescent development, parenting skills, problems at school, emotional health and wellbeing. This book looks specifically at some of the most distressing problems that young people face, including anxiety and stress disorders, drugs, alcohol, self-harm and psycho-sexual development.

(Paperback)

In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

(Paperback, second edition)

Why we need a daily dose of touch: an investigation of the effects of touch on our physical and mental well-being.

(Paperback)

A complete guide to child development from birth to 16 years.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

(Hardback)

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.

(Hardback)

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

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

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.

(Paperback)

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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

This Channel 4 TV tie-in examines the development of children between the ages of two and 12. Focusing on behaviour and the mind, it charts the achievements that mark the journey to becoming a fully-fledged person such as how children gain a sense of self and how they navigate the social world.

(, New edition)

A Channel 4 TV tie-in, this title examines the development of children between the ages of 2 and 12. Focusing on behaviour and the mind, it charts the achievement that mark the journey to becoming a fully fledged independent person.

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

(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)