- Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind
- Juan Carlos Gomez
- In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Between Voice and Silence
- Jill McLean Taylor
- Carol Gilligan
- Amy Sullivan
- When adolescent girls silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop a range of psychological problems. When they remain outspoken they are labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of this groundbreaking research took place, what of girls from poor and working-class families? In Between Voice and Silence, Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan grapple with these questions.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- The Caring Child
- Nancy Eisenberg
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- Child Abuse
- C. Henry Kempe
- Recent statistics have shown that between two and six percent of all children in the United States are seriously injured by parental assault or neglect. In this book, a giant step is taken toward reducing these dreadful statistics.
- Paperback
- The Child's Discovery of the Mind
- Janet Astington
- "Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery' for intellectual and social development.
- Paperback 1994 / Hardcover 1994
- Children Solving Problems
- Stephanie Thornton
- Stephanie Thornton surveys recent research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are--or, as the pioneering psychologist Jean Piaget claimed, how advanced is our skill in logical reasoning--and more on the factual knowledge we acquire as we learn and interpret cues from the world around us.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- Children of Immigration
- Carola Suárez-Orozco
- Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
- In the midst of the largest immigration wave in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. This book, written by the codirectors of the largest ongoing longitudinal study of immigrant children and their families, offers a clear, broad, interdisciplinary view of who the immigrant children are and what their future might hold.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- Children with Autism
- Marian Sigman
- Lisa Capps
- As they make sense of the many features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span, Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps weave together clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result is a compelling, comprehensive view of the disorder, as true to human experience as it is to scientific observation.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Children's Friendships
- Zick Rubin
- Paperback
- Children’s Talk
- Catherine Garvey
- How do children learn the intangible rules of conversation, how do they make talk "work?" Adults usually regard talk as a simple means of conveying information. Garvey explains the importance of talk to children's socialization and development and shows why talk is an integral and revealing part of the child's life that reflects important changes in thinking and social interaction.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Cultural Psychology
- Michael Cole
- The distinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for his pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a multifaceted account of what cultural psychology is, what it has been, and what it can be. A rare synthesis of the theory and empirical work shaping the field, this book will become a major foundation for the emerging discipline.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Dilemmas of Desire
- Deborah L. Tolman
- What teenage girls make of their awakening sexuality--distant from and yet susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. Thoughtful, vivid, and richly informed, this revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- Early Literacy
- Joan Brooks McLane
- Gillian Dowley McNamee
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Education for Thinking
- Deanna Kuhn
- Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn argues that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"--a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- Fat Talk
- Mimi Nichter
- The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, Fat Talk brings to light the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls' ideas about their shapes, their eating habits, and their physical ideals. Anthropologist Mimi Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls' sense of self. She finds that despite widespread dissatisfaction with one aspect or another of their bodies, the girls did not diet so much as talk about dieting. "Fat talk," Nichter wryly argues, is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of establishing solidarity.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- The First Relationship
- Daniel N. Stern
- Stern's pathbreaking video-based research into the intimate complexities of mother-infant interaction has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and developmental psychology. Now a noted authority on early development, Stern first reviewed his unique methods and observations in The First Relationship. Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, it offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his subsequent books.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Fundamentals of Brain Development
- Joan Stiles
- In a remarkable synthesis of research from the last two decades, a leading developmental neuroscientist provides psychologists with a sophisticated introduction to the brain. In clear terms, with ample illustrations, Stiles explains the complexities of genetic variation and transcription, and the variable paths of neural development, from embryology through early childhood.
- Hardcover 2008
- Growing Up With a Single Parent
- Sarah McLanahan
- Gary Sandefur
- More than half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent elucidates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback
- The Healthy Child
- Harold C. Stuart, Editor
- Dane G. Prugh, Editor
- Hardcover 1960
- Hearing Gesture
- Susan Goldin-Meadow
- This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers--adults and children alike--by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking. In general, we are unaware of gesture, which occurs as an undercurrent alongside an acknowledged verbal exchange. This book makes clear why we must not ignore the background conversation.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- How Infants Know Minds
- Vasudevi Reddy
- Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.
- Hardcover 2008
- Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age
- Dorothy G. Singer
- Jerome L. Singer
- Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Infancy
- Tiffany Field
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- The Infant's World
- Philippe Rochat
- In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants develop capabilities and conceptual understanding in relation to three interconnected domains: the self, objects, and other people.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004
- The Learning-Disabled Child
- Sylvia Farnham-Diggory
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- The Long Shadow of Temperament
- Jerome Kagan
- Nancy Snidman
- We have seen these children--the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring--and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development.
- Hardcover 2004
- Mental Retardation
- Robert B. Edgerton
- This book makes it clear that many of the problems of retardation are caused by the misunderstanding and intolerance of a society like our own, which places extraordinary emphasis on mental ability and its measurable manifestations: school achievement and IQ. It is just this sort of intolerance and misunderstanding that this book does so much to dispel.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- Mind and Media
- Patricia Marks Greenfield
- Video games, television, and computers are facts of life for today's children. Anxious parents and teachers, concerned with maintaining the intellectual and social richness of childhood, need to understand their effects. Greenfield urges that we explore how the various media can be used to promote social growth and thinking skills.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- The New Gay Teenager
- Ritch C. Savin-Williams
- Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Out of the Woods
- Stuart T. Hauser
- Joseph P. Allen
- Eve Golden
- Deeply troubled teenagers spend time in a locked psychiatric ward. They are out of control--violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Twenty years later, a handful of them are thriving. In a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later, these teens tell their stories. Out of the Woods portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening in on the poignant, dramatic, and funny interviews, we hear the kids growing into more composed versions of their tough and feisty selves.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Parenting for Primates
- Harriet J. Smith
- In this natural history of primate parenting, Smith compares parenting by nonhuman and human primates. In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, from her own experience breeding cottontop tamarin monkeys for over thirty years, and from her clinical psychology practice, Smith describes the ways that primates care for their offspring, from infancy through young adulthood.
- Hardcover 2006
- Pathways to Language
- Kyra Karmiloff
- Annette Karmiloff-Smith
- A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- The Philosophy of Childhood
- Gareth Matthews
- Adult preconceptions about the mental life of children tend to discourage a child's philosophical bent, Matthews suggests. By exposing the underpinnings of our adult views of childhood, he clears the way for recognizing the philosophy of childhood as a legitimate field of inquiry. He then conducts us through various influential models for understanding what it is to be a child, from the theory that individual development recapitulates the development of the human species to accounts of moral and cognitive development, including Piaget's revolutionary model.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Play
- Catherine Garvey
- Garvey explores some of the more promising new directions in the study of children's play and summarizes the findings of recent research.
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Point of Words
- Ellen Winner
- Psychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing features of children's minds.
- Paperback 1997
- Primate Psychology
- Dario Maestripieri, Editor
- This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear, in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in psychology and primatology. The authors focus primarily on social processes in areas including aggression, conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social development and affiliation, cognitive development, social cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- The Psychology of Childbirth
- Aidan Macfarlane
- Paperback
- Raising Their Voices
- Lyn Mikel Brown
- This book, filled with the voices of teenage girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle school girls--from the working poor and the middle class--Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- Reaching Higher
- Rhona S. Weinstein
- Drawing upon a generation of research on self-fulfilling prophecies in education, Reaching Higher argues that our expectations of children are often too low. Weinstein shows that children typed early as "not very smart" can go on to accomplish far more than is expected of them by an educational system with too narrow a definition of ability. She faults the system, pointing out that teachers themselves are harnessed by policies that do not enable them to reach higher for all children.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Real Kids
- Susan L. Engel
- Engel argues that the "scientist in a crib" view held by many parents and teachers encourages them to expect more logical reasoning and emotional self-control from children than they possess. She provides a concise and valuable overview of what modern developmental psychologists have learned about children's developing powers of perception and capacity for reasoning, but also suggests new ways of studying children that better capture the truth about their young minds.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Relationship Code
- David Reiss
- Robert Plomin
- Jenae M. Neiderhiser
- E. Mavis Hetherington
- The Relationship Code is the report of a longitudinal study, conducted over a ten-year period, of the influence of family relationships and genetic factors on competence and psychopathology in adolescent development. The sample for this landmark study included 720 pairs of same-sex adolescent siblings--including twins, half siblings, and genetically unrelated siblings--and their parents. Using a clear expressive style, David Reiss and his coinvestigators propose a striking hypothesis: family relationships are crucial to the expression of genetic influences and may constitute a code for translating genetic influences into the ontogeny of behaviors, a code every bit as important for behavior as DNA-RNA.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2003
- Rethinking Juvenile Justice
- Elizabeth S. Scott
- Laurence Steinberg
- Hardcover 2008
- Schooling
- Sylvia Farnham-Diggory
- Recent decades have witnessed unprocedented advances in research on human development. In those same decades there have been profound charges in public policy toward children. Each book in the Developing Child series reflects the importance of such research in its own right and as it bear on the formulation of policy. It is the purpose series to make the finding of this research available to those who are responsible for raising a new generation and for shaping policy on its behalf. We hope that these books will provide rich and useful information for parents, educators, child-care professors, students of developmental psychology, and all others concerned with the challenge of human growth.
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Sexual Fluidity
- Lisa M. Diamond
- Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.
- Hardcover 2008
- Sisters and Brothers
- Judy Dunn
- The sibling relationship, as any parent with two or more children knows, is an extraordinarily intense one: young brothers and sisters love and hate, play and fight, tease and mock each other with a devastating lack of inhibition. In this timely and unusual glimpse into the world of the child, Dunn argues that in fighting, bullying, or comforting, very young sisters and brothers possess a far deeper understanding of others than psychologists have supposed.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- Surprise, Uncertainty, and Mental Structures
- Jerome Kagan
- Hardcover 2002
- What We Know About Childcare
- Alison Clarke-Stewart
- Virginia D. Allhusen
- Backed by the best current research, Clarke-Stewart and Allhusen bring a reassuring answer to parents' fears and offer guidance for making difficult decisions. Quality child care, they show, may be even more beneficial to children than staying at home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be unruly compared with children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and reap the additional benefits of engaging with other children.
- Hardcover 2005
- Why the Wild Things Are
- Gail F. Melson
- This is the first book to examine children's many connections to animals and to explore their developmental significance. Gail Melson looks not only at the therapeutic power of pet-owning for children with emotional or physical handicaps, but also the ways in which zoo and farm animals, and even certain television characters, become confidants or teachers for children--and sometimes, tragically, their victims.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2005
- Working and Growing Up in America
- Jeylan T. Mortimer
- Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood? This report from a remarkable longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Young Minds in Social Worlds
- Katherine Nelson
- Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.
- Hardcover 2007